Effectively Wild Episode 255: Listener Emails Like Never Before
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2013
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Ben and Sam answer listener emails about the consequences of abolishing the trade deadline, baseball’s war on PEDs, time traveling front offices, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | We have to go back, hey? |
| 0:09.0 | We have to go back! |
| 0:15.8 | Good morning and welcome to episode 255 of Effectly Wild, the daily podcast from baseball |
| 0:21.9 | prospectus. |
| 0:22.9 | I am Ben Lindbergh. |
| 0:24.6 | I think as always by Sam Miller, I was going to make a Mark Zepchinsky joke, but then some |
| 0:32.1 | other stuff happened. |
| 0:33.8 | What would the joke have been? |
| 0:35.3 | I don't know, I hadn't thought it through, I'm sure it would have been good. |
| 0:40.6 | Based on, like, what was the premise? |
| 0:43.2 | You know, just that we were going to be discussing some hot trade deadline action, and that |
| 0:48.2 | was the only thing that happened for most of the day, which I spent the whole day with |
| 0:52.3 | my fingers poised over the keyboard, waiting for something to happen, and then it never |
| 0:58.1 | really did, and then now it has at 11 p.m. Eastern, so thank you teams for waiting until |
| 1:05.6 | that hour, so that's what I have to do after we finish recording now, we'll be writing. |
| 1:11.6 | Also we have this weird mystery of Nelson Cruz coming out of a game. |
| 1:15.9 | Yeah, were there handshakes and hugs? |
| 1:19.2 | No, so far as I know there were no handshakes or hugs, but he's apparently very likely |
| 1:25.1 | to be suspended and not appeal, and it makes you wonder whether like baseball is now suspending |
| 1:29.9 | players in the middle of the game, which I would love, like it'd be great if they would |
| 1:34.7 | just snipe them, you know, just shoot him with a dart and like midfield. |
| 1:39.8 | On fire hands in the notice, he runs the bases or something? |
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