Effectively Wild Episode 2384: Playoff Baseball is Cruel (But it Beats the Alternative)

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2025

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Meg’s recovery from illness and her ongoing emotional distress as a postseason spectator, then share their takeaways from the first two games of each ALDS and the first game of each NLDS. After that (51:15), Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie joins to talk about how he’s […]

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0:00.0	Hello, Ben, Lindberg and McRowley, come for the ball,
0:05.3	the banters free.
0:08.1	Baseball is a simulation.
0:10.9	It's all just one big conversation.
0:17.3	Effectively wild.
0:25.6	Hello and welcome to episode 2384 of Effectively Wild,
0:28.9	a fan grafts baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters.
0:32.6	I'm Meg Rowley of Fangraphs, and I lived, bitch.
0:38.7	I'm joined by Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer, who is also alive.
0:39.3	How nice.
0:40.2	Hi, Ben.
0:41.1	How are you? Alive and well, in my case, I'm perfectly fine.
0:43.5	But I think what the people want to know is how are you both physically and maybe more importantly, emotionally?
0:49.9	Let's set the emotional part aside for a second because that's a longer answer.
0:53.7	The shorter answer is how am I physically, which is much improved.
0:58.4	I know I still sound a mess, but I am now speaking above a whisper, which is so exciting
1:06.1	for me, Ben, because for the last couple days of last week, that was decidedly not the case. I don't know
1:13.4	what I had been. The at-home COVID test told me it wasn't COVID. The sore throat experience
1:20.2	made me think that it was like the razor blade throat variation of COVID. A lovely little
1:26.3	subgenre of COVID we got floating around.
1:29.1	I don't think adults should have fevers.
1:31.0	You know, I don't think children should either, to be clear, I'm not trying to like say
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