Effectively Wild Episode 2245: Diamond Sports Group in the Rough
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2024
⏱️ 107 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the resolution of the Diamond Sports Group bankruptcy hearing, how declining broadcast revenue could lead to labor strife, and the Pirates’ reward offer for a baseball card that comes with a patch from Paul Skenes’s debut jersey, then (28:42) bring on Patreon supporter Craig Wingbermuehle to discuss his job and Effectively Wild origin story and then (38:25) answer listener emails about why we don’t talk more about postseason revenue, why extensions render players ineligible for Prospect Promotion Incentives, team mission statements, whether teams or the league should own home run balls, secretly promising a post-signing extension to an international free agent such as Roki Sasaki, Nick Martinez’s opt-out streak and contract progression, what constitutes a homestand and career year, and whether a player can be just 0-for-10.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Bobby Shans, Bobby Shans, Bobby Shans, |
| 0:04.7 | Effectively Wild |
| 0:06.6 | Joey Manessus, |
| 0:10.6 | walk off three-run digger. |
| 0:12.3 | Stop it. |
| 0:13.4 | Walk off three-run shot. |
| 0:15.2 | Oh, my God. |
| 0:16.7 | Meg, he's the best player in baseball. |
| 0:20.5 | Unfactively wild. Hello and welcome to episode 2245 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from Fangraphs presented by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:32.6 | I am Ben Lindberg of the Ringer, joined by Meg Rally of FanRubs. Hello, Mick. |
| 0:36.6 | Hello. |
| 0:57.8 | We're going to do some emails today for the first time in quite a while, and we will be joined by listener and Patreon supporter to do that shortly. Just a couple quick things before we bring him on here. One, we got some sort of resolution in the Diamond Sports Group saga. Evendrelic is free, perhaps. No more hearings to attend. No more tweets about which teams will be dropped |
| 1:05.4 | and under what terms, so he has certainly covered the heck out of that story, which has been |
| 1:09.5 | nice because it has freed me from paying closer attention to it. It's the heck out of that story, which has been nice because it has |
| 1:10.9 | freed me from paying closer attention to it. It's the sort of thing that makes my eyes glaze over |
| 1:15.6 | when I start to read about the specifics of the terms of the broadcast deals, and yet I must |
| 1:21.5 | not avert my eyes and my attention, because this is pretty darn important. And the way that |
| 1:27.3 | this all worked out with |
| 1:29.2 | Diamond Sports Group, which is the owner of the former Bally's broadcasting channels, which |
| 1:36.2 | are now the Fandul broadcast channels, now they had a hearing on Thursday. It was expected to run into Friday, but it didn't. They wrapped up all of this upset now that's been going on for almost two years. There's some resolution to this bankruptcy saga. And the resolution is that Diamond will leave bankruptcy with a smaller portfolio of teams, but not a |
| 2:04.3 | non-existent one. |
| 2:05.4 | They've still got 13 NBA teams, eight NHL teams, and six MLB teams. |
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