Effectively Wild Episode 2338: Tommy Can You Shear Me?

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K 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 […]

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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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