Effectively Wild Episode 2330: Tapped Out
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2025
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Taylor Walls fulfilling a preseason podcast prediction by being ejected after tapping his helmet following a questionable call (and the many notifications Ben and Meg received from EW listeners), Luke Weaver’s stretching injury, the Rockies’ purported improvement, the decline of the closer as bullpen protagonist, a miraculous softball-delivery dirt clod, an unfortunate instance of replay review, the LSU Shreveport Pilots’ undefeated college season, Jac Caglianone’s call-up, Corbin Burnes’s bum elbow, Mookie Betts’s improved defense, the death of Japanese baseball legend Shigeo Nagashima, and more.
Audio intro: Philip Bergman, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Ted O., “Effectively Wild Theme”
Link to Walls story
Link to Reddit comments
Link to @EWStats ruling
Link to Walls and Trump
Link to Walls and DeSantis
Link to Revere ride info
Link to Weaver stretching story
Link to Dan S. on Weaver
Link to carrots myth
Link to Rockies quotes
Link to Rockies 10-day offense
Link to Rockies 10-day pitching
Link to Denver Post story
Link to The Athletic on Kenley
Link to Ben on saves
Link to Ben on SP protagonists
Link to softball clip
Link to softball story
Link to Ben on Capps
Link to Springer clip
Link to Springer story
Link to Dave on slides 1
Link to Dave on slides 2
Link to Shreveport story
Link to Wake Forest story
Link to Hill Triple-A game
Link to MLBTR on Burnes
Link to CBS on Mookie
Link to Ohtani Nagashima post
Link to Nagashima obit
Link to Whiting quote
Link to Nagashima NPB Stats page
Link to Oh NPB Stats page
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Did Richard Love Lady ever strike a Taylor Teagot and who had more? |
| 0:04.1 | Or Jason Kendall or Russell Martin, what if Show Here Tony's dog was also a good lawyer? |
| 0:08.5 | What would you do if Mike Druchess showed a being a foyer or is it foyer? |
| 0:12.8 | Find out, uneffectively wild. |
| 0:15.6 | Find out, uneffectively wild. |
| 0:18.3 | Find out uneffectively Wild today. |
| 0:23.1 | Hello and welcome to episode 23, 30 of Effectively Wild, |
| 0:26.7 | a Fangraphs baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:29.6 | I'm Megrelly of Fangraffs, and I am joined by Ben Lindberg of the Ringer. |
| 0:32.8 | Ben, are you out from underneath all the emails we've gotten? |
| 0:37.9 | Have you dug out? |
| 0:39.5 | Still, still digging my way out of the Taylor Walls correspondence. |
| 0:44.5 | Yes, I was notified by many people in many ways, in many different media about Taylor Walls. |
| 0:52.3 | Every time I thought that the deluge had stopped, there was another message from somewhere. |
| 0:58.5 | Really, it was in the immediate aftermath of Taylor Walls tapping his helmet to object to a call. |
| 1:05.9 | Yes. |
| 1:06.2 | I must have had four or five different notifications subsequently from different apps and places, |
| 1:14.3 | just people coming out of the woodwork to notify me about this. |
| 1:18.8 | It was just like, you know, not just the standard email and text and Discord notification |
| 1:25.8 | and Facebook notification. then suddenly singing telegram showing up at my door and someone throwing a rock through my window with a crumpled up note around it that said, hey, did you hear Taylor Wals? |
| 1:42.1 | He was ejected after tapping his helmet. |
| 1:44.6 | And then I'd go outside my apartment and some stranger would accost me and say, hey, Ben, |
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