Effectively Wild Episode 2387: GIDPodcast

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2025

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley revisit Meg’s experience of Mariners-Tigers ALDS Game 5 and recap the first few games of the Championship Series round, touching on postseason broadcast booths, the Mariners’ mauling of the Blue Jays in Toronto, Pat Murphy’s burnishing of the Brewers’ underdog image, broader narrative-building about the Brewers-Dodgers series, whether the Dodgers […]

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0:00.0	Number one, Fangrass baseball podcast.
0:05.0	This stat cast is that blasts.
0:09.0	T OPS Plus when the stats need contrast.
0:13.0	Zips and steamer for the forecast.
0:17.0	Hello and welcome to episode 2387 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from Fangraphs presented by our Patreon supporters.
0:26.9	I am Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer, joined by Meg Rally of Fangraphs.
0:30.3	Hello, Meg.
0:31.0	Hello.
0:32.1	I will remind everyone that we are planning our first playoff live stream for Patreon supporters at the Ned Garvert here or above.
0:39.3	This Friday, this Friday night, this Friday evening, details to come.
0:43.1	We will message you if you were at the appropriate tier, but you can sign up any time before then if you care to participate.
0:50.7	Let's talk a little bit about games that have already happened because there have been a bunch.
0:55.1	We are recording here on Monday afternoon-ish, my time, morning, your time.
1:01.1	It's Tuesday, Ben.
1:02.2	That's right.
1:03.4	Wow, it's Tuesday.
1:04.9	We missed a whole day there.
1:06.2	There was a holiday and we didn't do a podcast that day.
1:10.6	Not a couple of a holiday. No, but we had a do a podcast that day. So yes, a whole holiday.
1:12.3	No, but we had a whole day get away from me, at least, evidently.
1:16.9	So here we are on Tuesday, which I should have known because Monday was a day of two
1:22.0	baseball games.
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