Effectively Wild Episode 2389: Max Effort

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2025

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about ALCS Game 4 and NLCS Game 3, with an emphasis on Max Scherzer’s must-win mentality and why his hyped-up mound and start-day demeanor stops just short of scanning as too intense, the Dodgers’ likeability (or lack thereof), and repetitive promos. Then (as Meg sporadically exclaims about the beginning […]

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0:00.0	Keep your company, they'll keep your sane.
0:04.0	A long bike ride or a slow work day.
0:10.0	Making bin waxing about a playoff race.
0:15.0	Who's bats hide?
0:20.0	It's effectively wild. lose bats hide
0:24.6	It's effectively wild
0:31.6	So stick around you'll be a well beguiled
0:35.6	It's effectively wild
0:46.3	Like Nolan Brian was Hello and Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from Fangraphs presented by our Patreon supporters.
0:52.3	I am Ben Lindberg of the Ringer, joined by Meg Raleigh of Fangraphs.
0:56.6	Hello, Mick.
0:57.4	Hi.
0:58.3	Speaking to Meg, in the moments before, a consequential game between the Mariners and Blue Jays,
1:05.4	depending on how things go, you might even get live gameplay just as we did.
1:10.4	You're going to get live gameplay. You're going to get live gameplay. as we did you're going to get live game you're going to get
1:11.4	you're going to get you're going to get live gameplay and it's going to be completely rational it's
1:15.6	going to be sober it's going to be i mean both in in terms of its um uh potential influences
1:21.5	and also um it's tone i might be laying out a multi-step plan to find and kill Humpy. I just, I'm, look.
1:30.2	Public sentiment has really turned on Humphy. We talked about this yesterday, but suddenly,
1:35.7	Mariners fans are demanding ritual sacrifices. Yeah, we got to find him. And he was a hero just a few
1:41.6	days ago. He says, no, No, look, he is a hero.
1:45.2	This isn't Humpty's fault.
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