Effectively Wild Episode 2199: A World Without Glove
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2024
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Mike Trout’s latest season-ending injury, the Orioles’ latest top-prospect promotion, and a tweak to the postseason schedule, and answer listener emails (24:20) about ex-player umpires, eavesdropping on pitchers’ thoughts between pitches, whether and how they’d reintroduce baseball to a world without it, awarding belts or trophies for team rivalries, the viability of a pitcher who can’t field, how a player could win MVP in both leagues in the same season, how MLB would work if it were Patreon-supported, how international soccer’s transfer system would apply to MLB, and referring to a type of player by saying “a [player name]”, plus (1:29:48) a few follow-ups.
Audio intro: Ian Phillips, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Kite Person, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Link to Jim Downey meme
Link to The Athletic on Trout
Link to MLB.com on Trout
Link to Trout’s tweet
Link to SuperPretzel EW episode
Link to EW Trout hypotheticals
Link to MLBTR on Mayo
Link to postseason schedule
Link to ex-player umps
Link to Scully movie clip
Link to mic’d up Manoah
Link to Ben on Yesterday
Link to Vedder Cup article
Link to Mayor’s Trophy wiki
Link to Babe Ruth Award wiki
Link to Gary’s Old Towne Tavern
Link to Sam on playing in a game
Link to listener emails database
Link to Snell quote
Link to White Sox streak tweet
Link to playoff ratios tweet
Link to ballpark meetup forms
Link to meetup organizer form
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| 0:00.0 | Don't hear about pitcher winds or about gambling odds. |
| 0:04.0 | All they want to hear about might try to fight a cold |
| 0:08.0 | and the texture of the hair on the arm going out of one's eyes. |
| 0:14.0 | Rose, gross! |
| 0:16.0 | Give me, give me, give me, give me effectively wild. |
| 0:18.0 | Give me, give me, give me, give me, give me effectively wild. |
| 0:22.0 | Give me, give me, give me, effectively wild. |
| 0:23.0 | This is effectively wild. |
| 0:24.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 2199 of Effectively Wild, |
| 0:30.0 | a baseball podcast from fan graphs |
| 0:32.0 | presented by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:34.2 | I am Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer joined by Meg Raleigh of Van Grafs. |
| 0:38.1 | Hello. |
| 0:39.1 | I really tried to follow your advice to forget about Mike Trout. I just tried to focus and put him out of my mind, but he kept coming back because he's not coming back. |
| 0:53.2 | No. |
| 0:54.2 | It's very sad. |
| 0:55.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:56.2 | I was going to do a bit like the Jim Downey meme from Conan O'Brien needs a friend where |
| 1:01.4 | he pretends not to know what happened to Jeffrey Epstein and he says |
| 1:05.6 | Jeff Epstein the New York financier I was gonna do Mike Trout the former super pretzel |
| 1:12.0 | spokesperson and that made me wonder Trout, the former Super Pretzel spokesperson. |
| 1:14.0 | And that made me wonder, could this be the curse of Super Pretzel? |
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