Effectively Wild Episode 2128: Season Preview Series: Diamondbacks and Brewers
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2024
⏱️ 112 minutes
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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about MLB’s semi-transparent-pants problem and the Nike/Fanatics uniform mess that’s swallowed spring training, a “down the dick” etymology follow-up, Kodai Senga’s injury, Mitch Keller’s extension, the Marlins signing Tim Anderson, and a minor league free agent draft update. Then they preview the 2024 Arizona Diamondbacks (38:13) with The Arizona Republic’s Nick Piecoro and the 2024 Milwaukee Brewers (1:10:18) with The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s Curt Hogg.
Audio intro: Benny and a Million Shetland Ponies, “Effectively Wild Theme (Horny)”
Audio interstitial 1: Jonathan Crymes, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio interstitial 2: Dave Armstrong and Mike Murray, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Jimmy Kramer, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Link to Lukas unis FAQ
Link to Lukas on the pants
Link to Lukas’s letter to Nike
Link to player comments
Link to Kepner on the unis
Link to Clark’s comments
Link to The Atlantic on the unis
Link to ESPN on the pants
Link to Zimmer’s WSJ archive
Link to MLBTR on Senga
Link to Sheehan on Senga
Link to MLBTR on Keller
Link to FG on Keller
Link to The Athletic on Nutting
Link to MLBTR on Anderson
Link to MLBTR on Urshela
Link to draft results
Link to Diamondbacks offseason tracker
Link to Diamondbacks depth chart
Link to Kendrick/Hall comments
Link to Nick’s azcentral.com archive
Link to Brewers offseason tracker
Link to Brewers depth chart
Link to Brewers renovation details
Link to Curt’s MJS archive
Link to quiet NBA game
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| 0:00.0 | Well, it's moments like these that make you ask, |
| 0:03.0 | how can you not be horny about baseball? |
| 0:07.0 | Every take hot and hotter, |
| 0:09.0 | entwining and a budding, |
| 0:11.0 | watch a climbing mountain |
| 0:13.0 | nothing's about nothing every stituate with sweat |
| 0:17.0 | breaking balls back door beyond effectively while the |
| 0:20.6 | can you not be horny? |
| 0:23.0 | When it comes to podcasts, how can you not be horny? |
| 0:28.0 | Hello and welcomed episode 2128 of Effectively Wild, a fangrass baseball |
| 0:35.4 | podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters. I'm Meg Rowley of |
| 0:38.2 | fan graphs and I am joined by Ben Lemberger the ringer. Ben how are you? |
| 0:41.3 | Well you know I'm not a uniform guy. I respect people who are |
| 0:47.8 | nerdy about uniforms. I'm certainly nerdy about enough things that I respected in others, |
| 0:52.0 | but I don't share that particular |
| 0:53.7 | kind of nerdiness so you start talking about plackets and piping and |
| 0:59.5 | perforated numbers and so on I'm probably not going to pay particularly close attention and so this |
| 1:06.3 | brings uniform mess started out being of only mild interest to me like as long as the players are wearing something out there, I might not notice the difference. |
| 1:17.1 | I know. |
| 1:18.1 | That's the thing, we've reached the point where we can't be confident that they are, |
| 1:22.2 | or we can be extremely confident about what they're wearing underneath the outer layer. |
| 1:27.0 | I mean if we're going to get to the point where they're giving Shohai O'Tani semi-transparent pants, |
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