Effectively Wild Episode 2334: The Overshadowed Debuts

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2025

⏱️ 122 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about depictions of the pitch clock in popular media, how the lack of advancing visual fidelity in baseball broadcasts makes it harder to identify when clips come from (and other ways we might distinguish eras at a glance), Hunter Dobbins drama and why it’s harder than it used to […]

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode
0:05.0	Hello and welcome to episode 2334 of Effectively Wilde
0:16.2	A Fangraphs baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters
0:19.1	I'm Megrelly of Fangraphs and I am joined by Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer, Ben.
0:23.4	How are you?
0:25.1	Okay.
0:26.5	So funny.
0:28.3	You know, we're recording on Thursday.
0:31.3	You know, it's just like the horrors or...
0:34.5	Sure.
0:34.8	You ever feel like your job's really stupid?
0:36.6	You're like, well, this is dumb.
0:37.8	From time to time, yeah.
0:39.5	Having a time to time over here.
0:41.1	That's how I am.
0:42.2	Yep, time to time.
0:43.3	Hasn't helped that it's difficult to do our jobs when the internet is not working,
0:47.7	which has also been the case on Thursday.
0:50.7	Thanks, Google Cloud and Cloudflare.
0:53.0	But fortunately, we can at least record the podcast and hopefully post it when it's complete.
0:58.2	Sure. Speaking of which, immediately after I posted our most recent episode, I thought of something else that I had meant to say about that poker face baseball episode that we talked about. Season 2, Episode 5, Hometown Hero.
1:15.7	Most of our discussion and our critiques last time were about the specifics of the plot of that episode.
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