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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 225: Missing Out on Mariano Rivera/Scouting Scouts

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2013

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Sam discuss what Mariano Rivera’s retirement might cost us, then talk about whether it’s possible to evaluate scouts statistically.

Transcript

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0:00.0

So that's it after 20 years. It's all on good luck.

0:02.8

I don't recall saying good luck.

0:04.9

Good morning and welcome to episode 225 of effectively wild of the daily podcast on baseball

0:12.0

perspectives. I'm Sam Miller with Ben Lindbergh, Ben Howard. Very well. I want to see the Syracuse

0:19.2

Chiefs this weekend. You didn't, you just to clarify, you went to Syracuse and while you were there,

0:30.0

you saw the Chiefs. Yes, that was not my primary reason for going. It's a long drive and the Chiefs

0:36.0

don't have a lot of prospects, but I was in town, so I saw the Chiefs. Did you, I have a question

0:43.1

for you. I haven't been able to figure this out on my own and I've been too shy to ask, but

0:48.1

did you just flash your BVWA card or do you buy it? I got it with me thinking that maybe I would

0:56.4

go to a game and maybe I would do that and I had this whole fantasy playing out in my mind where

1:01.2

like a baseball writer from the big city comes to Syracuse and they roll out the red carpet for me.

1:09.2

That is an awful thing that you've just said.

1:14.5

But I didn't have to do that because and I didn't have to have my ego smacked down by no one

1:22.0

caring that I was there because apparently you can just get free tickets to see the Chiefs,

1:28.4

just by asking for them. The hotel that we were staying at just gives away Chiefs' tickets

1:34.8

at the front desk. You just ask for tickets to see the Chiefs and they pretty much give you

1:39.4

as many as you want. We got ten tickets to see the Chiefs. I was with three other people.

1:46.2

Were there ten of you? No, I was with three other people and one of them asked for five

1:50.8

and got five and then the other another one asked for five and also got five because we thought maybe

1:56.6

we would we were going to a wedding and there would be a lot of people and we thought maybe we

2:00.9

would just kind of just throw them in the air and see who fought and came up with Chiefs' tickets.

2:06.7

But yeah, you can just you can just go. I don't know how they make money or anything because

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