Effectively Wild Episode 2323: Look Ma(scot), No Pants
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2025
⏱️ 109 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about listener suggestions for terms for tandem home run robberies (and the opposite of home run robberies), whether it’s so O’sver in Baltimore, Jacob deGrom succeeding despite slightly less dominant stuff, and the realness of the rivalries in MLB’s inaugural “Rivalry Weekend,” then (48:46) answer listener emails about awarding hit by pitches based on location, not contact, which player actually “starts the scoring,” whether defenders should save the ball from their first putout, a pitcher hitting month, and pantsless mascots, plus a postscript (1:38:32) on Ayami Sato, the first woman to play pro baseball in Canada.
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| 0:00.0 | How can you not be pedanted? |
| 0:08.2 | A stab blast will keep you distracted. |
| 0:11.7 | It's a long song to death, but they're sure to make you smile. |
| 0:18.7 | This is effectively why. This is effectively why. Hello, this is Effectively Wild, this is Effectively Wild, this is Effectively Wild, this is Effective Wild. |
| 0:29.9 | Hello and welcome to episode 2323, 23 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from Fangraphs, presented by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:39.5 | I am Ben Minberg of the Ringer, joined by Meg Rally of FanGraphs. |
| 0:43.4 | Hello, Meg. |
| 0:44.3 | I feel like I burped a little bit. |
| 0:45.9 | Sorry. |
| 0:46.7 | Got a little bit of a burp there. |
| 0:48.4 | Sorry. |
| 0:49.0 | All right. |
| 0:49.3 | Hello. |
| 0:50.0 | It's me. |
| 0:50.5 | Meg. |
| 0:50.8 | Burping. |
| 0:51.4 | Got it out of the way early. |
| 0:52.8 | That's always good, I guess. |
| 1:01.9 | So we've gotten a few responses to our call for what we should label those types of home run robberies. |
| 1:18.1 | Either the tandem deal, the cooperative, collaborative home run robbery, or the reverse of the home run robbery, which is what we kind of informally labeled the home run gift when someone propels a ball over the wall that otherwise wouldn't have been over. |
| 1:29.1 | So one submission we got for the two person, the dual home run robbery, was I guess sort of in the vein of my smash and grab suggestion, |
| 1:30.6 | but aiding and abetting. |
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