Effectively Wild Episode 2155: Just for (Slow) Starters
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2024
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the Rockies (and their charter pilots) running afoul of the FAA, Jackson Holliday’s slow start, whether the Astros or Twins has hurt their division-title chances more, two embarrassing umpire incidents, offense being down relative to last season, the concept of a “combined Maddux,” Shohei Ohtani’s WAR as a DH, the Blue Jays’ self-funded ballpark renovations, new research on Tommy John surgeries in Japan, and more.
Audio intro: Jonathan Crymes, “Effectively Wild Theme 2”
Audio outro: Philip Bergman, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Link to Rockies plane video
Link to AP on the Rockies
Link to new flight deck rule
Link to Blum on Holliday
Link to O’s prospects joke
Link to Animorphs meme
Link to white guys selfie meme
Link to article on Scott
Link to story on Mays start
Link to story on Mantle start
Link to change in division odds
Link to García injury update
Link to RP fWAR
Link to Dan S. on the Astros
Link to Boone ejection video
Link to EW on ump-heckling
Link to CNN on Boone ejection
Link to SI on Boone ejection
Link to KBO ABS incident
Link to offense through 4/22
Link to Joe Sheehan on offense
Link to BallparkPal thread
Link to “Maddux” glossary entry
Link to “combined Maddux” mention
Link to WAR leaderboard
Link to Jaffe on the Dodgers
Link to Cardinals funding post
Link to more on Cards request
Link to article on Jays funding
Link to Diamondbacks statement
Link to Jim Allen TJ research
Link to archived version
Link to SABR on Tippy’s pickoffs
Link to Tippy video
Link to Tippy call
Link to ballpark meetup forms
Link to meetup organizer form
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I want to know about baseball |
| 0:03.0 | I want to know about every single team |
| 0:06.0 | I want to know about sat glass |
| 0:09.0 | fan graphs and about oh oh, I'm a very modern fan. |
| 0:15.0 | Reading it up on all the analytics. |
| 0:19.0 | I want to know about baseball, presented by Patreon supporters of Effectively Wild. |
| 0:27.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 2155 of Effectively Wild, a fangrass baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:35.2 | I'm a gregrelli of the fangrafs and I'm joined by Ben Lemberger of the ringer. |
| 0:38.6 | Ben, how are you? |
| 0:39.7 | I'm all right. Welcome back. |
| 0:41.4 | Thank you. |
| 0:42.4 | You were traveling a little bit, which meant that you flew. |
| 0:46.4 | Now, I don't really use Instagram, |
| 0:49.0 | so I have not checked your reels or anything. |
| 0:52.0 | I don't know whether you've posted any videos of yourself in the |
| 0:55.6 | cockpit midair just pretending to fly the plane. Any anything? Might I see something like that? |
| 1:02.0 | I can't believe it. |
| 1:07.0 | I want to be clear, don't do this, you know, |
| 1:08.0 | we have all kinds of rules and regs around who can do what on |
| 1:14.9 | planes and you know a good many of them aren't actually security theater and I |
| 1:20.2 | feel like this is probably high on the list but yeah I do feel like this is probably high on the list but I do feel a little bit bad for all |
| 1:26.9 | involved here because I can't imagine that this was done with any sort of nefarious intent, you know? |
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