Effectively Wild Episode 2319: Going By the Book

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2025

⏱️ 131 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

It’s a baseball-book bonanza! Ben Lindbergh rounds up the authors of three new baseball books for conversations about their work and our relationships with the past. First he talks to John W. Miller about his biography of Earl Weaver, The Last Manager, Weaver’s wiring and sabermetric intuition, and the diminished role and reputation of managers. […]

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hello, it's fair game, even Keith Keyes Dirty Pants.
0:04.2	And maybe if you're lucky, we'll co-call by the chance.
0:09.0	You never know precisely where it's going to go.
0:13.3	By definition, Effectively Wild.
0:17.7	Hello and welcome to episode 2319 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from Fangraphs presented by our Patreon supporters.
0:27.0	I am Ben Lindberg of the Ringer, Meg Rally of Fangraffs is on vacation, and so as I was last episode, I will be joined today by three guests.
0:34.8	By the way, two of our guests last time were fans of collectively
0:38.6	four teams, the Braves, Orioles, Rockies, and White Sox. All four of those teams lost on the day that
0:43.8	episode was posted appropriately. They are a combined one and eight since those conversations.
0:49.2	So mostly things not really looking up. Though the White Sox, I guess, got a win on Thursday.
0:54.0	When a new pope was announced, the White Sox, I guess, got a win on Thursday when a new Pope was
0:54.9	announced, the first American Pope Robert Francis Provost, aka Leo the 14th, he's from Chicago,
1:01.3	and so naturally the first question on everyone's mind was, well, is he a White Sox fan or a Cubs fan?
1:06.6	He's from the South Side, and yet initial reporting suggested that he was a Cubs fan, which would
1:11.3	have been a bad beat for the White Sox.
1:13.1	And then subsequent reporting suggested that, no, this was fake news.
1:16.5	He may have been born to a Cubs fan and a Cardinals fan, amusingly, but he is, in fact, a White Sox
1:23.1	Times dug up a photo of him wearing White Sox gear at the 2005 world series. So the white
1:28.4	socks may have been blown out 10 to nothing against the royals on Thursday. But at least they have a
1:32.7	holy father. And I have a not so holy trinity of podcast guests today. The ghost of effectively
1:38.3	wild past, the ghost of effectively wild present, and the ghost of effectively wild yet to come.
1:42.9	No, not quite. I'm doing a baseball
	...

Transcript will be available on the free plan in 14 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.