Effectively Wild Episode 2362: Poob Has Baseball for You

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2025

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about whether any of the teams that sold at the trade deadline can make an improbable playoff run, whether the Dodgers’ position in the playoff race refutes or confirms preseason fears about their advantages, and the accelerating splintering of sports broadcasts (MLB on the Poob tube!), then answer emails […]

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0:00.0	I'll still be speaking statistically rambling romantically pontificating pedantically banter and bodily, drafting discerningly, giggling giddly, equalling effectively wild.
0:16.1	Hello and welcome to episode 2362 of Effectively Wild, a Fangraphs Baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters.
0:23.8	I'm Meg Raleigh, FanGraphs,
0:25.1	and I'm joined by Ben Lindberg of the Ringer, Ben.
0:27.9	How are you?
0:28.8	Okay. How are you?
0:30.9	I feel old, but jubilant.
0:35.7	So real, you know, push and pull.
0:38.8	Yeah.
0:39.8	Fan graphs being 20 means I have to reckon with my own age a little bit.
0:45.4	But also, fan graphs is 20, Ben.
0:47.8	What an accomplishment.
0:49.3	Happy birthday fan graphs.
0:51.1	Yay.
0:51.3	Yay.
0:52.5	It was 20 years ago today.
0:55.1	David told the fans to graph away.
0:58.0	How's that?
0:58.9	What?
1:00.0	No.
1:01.1	Sarder Peppers?
1:02.4	Nothing.
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