Effectively Wild Episode 2338: Tommy Can You Shear Me?
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2025
⏱️ 104 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Tommy Kahnle’s postgame shaving ritual, Hunter Bigge’s close call and danger from foul balls, Padres vs. Dodgers as baseball’s best rivalry, and a lost opportunity for a Tarik Skubal vs. Paul Skenes matchup, then (58:23) answer listener emails about the most influential owner of the century, the definition of an inside pitch, full-count pickoff attempts with two outs, a possible sliding-mitt drawback, and real baseball with fantasy scoring.
Audio intro: Ted O., “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Nate Emerson, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Link to WhatIfSports offer page
Link to “Tommy Can You Hear Me?”
Link to new Kahnle article
Link to tweet about Kahnle
Link to 2023 Kahnle article
Link to lowest pitcher ERAs
Link to Emma tweet
Link to Bigge article 1
Link to Bigge article 2
Link to on-deck-hitter fouls
Link to Sam on helmets
Link to Dodgers-Padres article 1
Link to Dodgers-Padres article 2
Link to Dodgers-Padres video
Link to Ohtani video
Link to Jazz article 1
Link to Jazz article 2
Link to Jazz article 3
Link to Jazz article 4
Link to staggered aces article 1
Link to staggered aces article 2
Link to staggered aces article 3
Link to Halvorsen throw
Link to Volpe slide article
Link to Volpe slide video
Link to listener emails database
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| 0:00.0 | Effectively wild |
| 0:03.4 | It's the only show I did |
| 0:06.9 | hosted by |
| 0:09.5 | Ben Lindberg and Meg Riley |
| 0:13.6 | I want to hear about show |
| 0:17.6 | Hey O Toney |
| 0:18.8 | Or Mike Trout with Freemark |
| 0:23.6 | Hello and welcome to episode 2338 of Effectively Wild. |
| 0:32.6 | I'm Meg Rally of Fangraphs, play in a road game, |
| 0:35.6 | and I'm joined by Ben Lindbergh of the ringer. Ben, how are you? |
| 0:39.3 | Well, maybe because you're on the road and playing without the home field advantage, you neglected to say that this is a Fangraph's baseball podcast. |
| 0:46.8 | Oh, how will people know what effectively wild is? They're like, what is this thing that I'm listening to? Is this a fan grass podcast? |
| 0:54.7 | Is it a baseball podcast? |
| 0:55.8 | Right. |
| 0:55.9 | I have no idea. |
| 0:56.9 | It's a, it's a fan graphs podcast. |
| 0:58.7 | It's a baseball podcast. |
| 1:00.0 | Importantly, it's brought to you by our Patreon supporters who we are so thankful for. |
| 1:04.5 | I can't say I'm a fan of East Coast weather. |
| 1:08.6 | Has some long travel delays from me yesterday. But here we are. We're recording the pod. |
| 1:13.7 | We are, we're bobbing and weaving, as they say, Ben. You know, unlike my, unlike my plane with the |
| 1:20.3 | storm, which decided to neither Bob nor weave, but simply to land in a different airport than I was |
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