Effectively Wild Episode 2380: Clinching Chaos

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2025

⏱️ 110 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the Mariners clinching the AL West, the benefits and drawbacks of MVP debates, the power of great players to enhance a season for spectators, the Cardinals’ and Giants’ reciprocal eliminations, the near-extinction of the 200-inning pitcher, the Nationals’ new head of baseball ops, and how predictive a track […]

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	It's effectively wild.
0:05.3	It's effectively wild.
0:09.4	When land and back in back rally.
0:18.7	Hello and welcome to episode 2380 of Effectively Wild, a Fangraphs baseball podcast brought you by our Patreon supporters.
0:26.3	I'm Meg Rowley, Fangraphs, and I'm joined by Ben Limburger the Ringer.
0:29.1	We are up with energy today, Ben.
0:31.8	Yeah.
0:33.0	Congrats to you and Cow Raleigh and all the many Mariners fans who listen to Effectively Wild.
0:39.6	Yeah.
0:40.2	You've clinched the AL West.
0:42.0	Yeah.
0:43.0	It, um, look, I didn't have anything to do with it, you know.
0:46.4	I didn't really clinch anything.
0:48.2	I've been clenching, but not clinching.
0:51.8	Didn't, that wasn't me.
0:53.0	Although it was fun as I was watching the post game celebration, and they cut to everyone filing into the locker room slash murder room that they have prepared.
1:05.1	It's just always what I think of when we get to postseason time.
1:08.7	It is very dexteresque.
1:09.7	Yeah.
1:10.2	I'm like, it's so nice that we're filling this space with positive energy because the decorations make you think that somebody's going to die.
1:19.1	And I'm sitting there and I'm watching everybody filing and they're being handed their goggles.
1:24.9	And I was like, hey, there's Dave Cameron.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.