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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 2388: May the Fastest Fish Win

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2025

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the effect of road dominance on the postseason spectator experience and discuss NLCS Game 2 and ALCS Game 3, touching on Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s throwback complete game, the historic playoff production of Kiké Hernández, the less surprising excellence of Vladimir Guerrero Jr., a budding Dodgers backlash, pitcher usage when […]

Transcript

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0:00.0

anything is fair game even key kids dirty pants and maybe if you're lucky we'll cope all by

0:07.4

the chance you never know precisely where it's going to go by definition effectively wild

0:17.2

hello and welcome to episode 2388 of effectively wild a fan a Fangraphs baseball podcast brought to our Patreon supporters.

0:24.7

I'm Meg Raleigh of Fangraphs, and I'm joined by Ben Lindberg of the Ringer. Ben, how are you?

0:29.3

I'm excited for our upcoming first playoff live stream for our Patreon supporters at the Netgarver Tier or above, figure.

0:36.3

Give it one more plug, one last plug for the first live stream, which will be Friday night

0:42.1

during an LCS game four.

0:45.1

Show Hey Otani on the mound.

0:47.1

Us in the Patreon Discord group with many people listening along and chatting.

0:53.2

You still have time if you're hearing this before.

0:55.4

First pitch of that game, sign up and you will get a message with a link to join the group and

1:01.4

all the info that you need. But 838 Eastern first pitch, game four NLCS. Talk to you then,

1:08.3

potentially. I'm excited for our listeners.

1:11.7

The streams are always fun.

1:13.4

We always have a great time.

1:14.6

But here's the reason I'm excited, Ben.

1:17.2

I'm going to be insane.

1:19.3

You know, like, I will, here's where I'll be at for everyone.

1:25.0

And we'll talk about some of the recent game action that have gotten us to this stupid

1:29.5

point.

1:30.7

But it'll be immediately following and probably overlapping our results lately with ALCS game

1:37.7

five.

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