Effectively Wild Episode 270: Listener Email Answers in Search of a Theme
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2013
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Ben and Sam answer listener emails about when every team will have won a World Series, the best baseball Kickstarters, rooting for draft picks, one-pitch pitchers, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Wait a minute. Cubs win World Series. |
| 0:05.0 | I guess Miami? |
| 0:06.0 | Yeah, it's something, huh? Who would have thought hundreds of one shot? |
| 0:10.0 | I wish I could go back to the beginning of the season, put some money on the code. |
| 0:14.0 | I just meant Miami. |
| 0:17.0 | What did you just say? |
| 0:18.0 | I said I wish I could go back to the beginning of the season, put some money on the Cubs. |
| 0:23.0 | Good morning and welcome to episode 270 of Effectively Wild that Daily Podcasts from baseball perspective. |
| 0:32.0 | I'm Sam Miller with Ben Lindbergh. |
| 0:35.0 | I kind of had this vague memory of 270 being an important number in baseball history, like from my childhood. |
| 0:43.0 | And I can't imagine what it would be. It's nothing, right? |
| 0:46.0 | So, 70 doesn't mean anything, right? |
| 0:48.0 | I can't think of it meaning anything. |
| 0:51.0 | I think probably what I'm remembering is like, I'm guessing that somebody who was a veteran around the time that I was a big card collector probably would have had maybe 270 wins. |
| 1:03.0 | And I saw his baseball card or something, so like maybe it's like Tommy John had 270 wins, something along those lines, which isn't a very big part of baseball history. |
| 1:13.0 | No, Vernon Wells has 270 career home runs. |
| 1:17.0 | That's probably it. |
| 1:19.0 | Yeah, I think that's it. It's one of those, one of those pantheon numbers. |
| 1:24.0 | Before we, before we go, I guess I should just real quickly, do you have any thoughts about Ryan Dempster being fake suspended? |
| 1:36.0 | You talk about it first. I was just looking something up. |
| 1:42.0 | Ryan Dempster got suspended for throwing at Alex Rodriguez. |
| 1:46.0 | And it's one of those suspensions where it's like, it's five days, but because he's a pitcher, all it means is that he'll have to move back a day. |
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