Effectively Wild Episode 253: Brian Cashman and the Meddlesome Steinbrenners/Revisiting the Justin Verlander Extension

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2013

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Sam discuss whether an owner overruling a GM can ever be a good thing, then revisit the Tigers’ decision to extend Justin Verlander well before he was a free agent.

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0:00.0	That is a Lucy Intelligent Well-Thought-Out Objection.
0:04.0	Thank you, Your Honor.
0:05.0	Overrule, Your Honor.
0:07.0	Good morning and welcome to Episode 253 of Effectively Wild,
0:12.0	the Daily Podcast from Baseball Perspectus.
0:15.0	I'm Sam Miller and moving his stool is Ben Lindbergh.
0:19.0	Ben, how's that stool doing?
0:21.0	I'm not actually sitting on a stool.
0:24.0	That'd be weird if I, if my computer chair was just a stool.
0:28.0	I sit on a stool. I work from a stool all day every day.
0:31.0	Really? Wow.
0:32.0	Yeah.
0:33.0	I stand near a stool out of that time.
0:35.0	But yeah, it's either stool or near stool.
0:38.0	Is it a revolve? Is it a rotating?
0:41.0	It's not. It's like from like 1908.
0:45.0	It's literally like a 1908 stool.
0:47.0	Do you want some back support?
0:49.0	Sometimes.
0:50.0	That's where my computer is.
0:54.0	Right.
0:57.0	I'd said I keep my computer at a counter,
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