Effectively Wild Episode 2321: The Seventh-Inning (Dynamic) Stretch

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2025

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about an expert’s stance on stretching, whether the White Sox were the funniest team for the new Pope to support, what Paul Skenes signing up for the WBC signifies, an optimistic take on the odds of a lost season, Bud Black’s firing and the dreaded “vote of confidence,” Roki […]

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to
0:03.0	Give me, Give me Effectively Wild
0:04.6	Give me, Give me Effectively Wild
0:06.6	This is Effectively Wild
0:08.5	Hello and welcome to episode 2321
0:12.6	of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from Fangraphs
0:16.0	presented by our Patreon supporters.
0:18.4	I am Ben Lindberg of the Ringer,
0:20.6	rejoined by Meg Rally of Fancrafts. Welcome back.
0:23.7	Hello. Well, you had a nice time off. We will probably talk about it on an upcoming bonus episode,
0:30.2	but we have so much to catch up on. So much baseball, or at least baseball podcasting, that you missed.
0:36.0	Yeah, I went away, and I will admit, Ben, that I thought of you exactly one time in the entire
0:45.7	week that I was gone, just the once.
0:47.9	But I did feel compelled to message you in that moment, as you know.
0:51.5	So I appreciate you covering and I'm happy to be back. And baseball,
0:58.7	it happened all around us while I was gone. So many things. And then things since then.
1:04.5	One of the guests who came on to fill in for you was Adam Hour, who is the Major League
1:09.7	Dietitian for the Milwaukee Brewers, and also a
1:13.0	former minor and major league strength and conditioning coach. And we had a great long
1:17.9	conversation in which I somehow neglected to ask him about stretching, which is, of course,
1:24.2	the defining debate of the podcast. And so I followed up with him via email just to ask where he stands on stretching.
1:33.1	And I didn't put my thumb on the scale.
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