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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 325: The Offseason’s First Listener Emails

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2013

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Sam answer listener emails about pitcher hitting, the Phillies’ new analyst, Scott Boras’ use of stats, and more.

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0:00.0

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0:27.0

Good morning and welcome to episode 325.

0:29.0

So 325 effectively wild for the daily podcast with baseball perspectives.com.

0:33.0

I'm Sam Miller, joined as always by Ben Lindbergh and today we have no guests.

0:38.0

It's just you and me, Ben. How are you?

0:40.0

Okay. So Ben, you went to see Built to Spill, which is one of my, I don't know, favorite bands.

0:49.0

So how was that tonight?

0:51.0

It was great. That was my first time seeing them live as opposed to the other ways one would see them.

0:58.0

It was, it was good. It was really good.

1:01.0

Was it loud and swirly?

1:04.0

Yeah. Yeah. It was, I mean, it sounded like the songs are supposed to sound.

1:12.0

I know they, they have a reputation for being sort of unpredictable live is what I've heard.

1:18.0

It wasn't really that unpredictable, but it was, you know, it was good.

1:22.0

They had some trouble staying in tune. It seemed like between songs, presumably because they were rocking so hard.

1:31.0

I, you were so interested in my, well, not interested, but you were so, so flattering of my camera, obscure headline on the site today.

1:44.0

So I spent one two told me that you were going to the Built to Spoke on so I spent all day imagining Built to Spill headlines.

1:50.0

And the best, I think the best that I could come up with it, it would be, it would have to be a very specific article.

1:56.0

But it would be, keep it like a Seagrist.

2:00.0

That's good. Yeah. That would have been good when I wrote about Seagrist at one time.

2:05.0

Exactly. I was wondering why you didn't. Maybe I'll sign it.

2:09.0

I'll go back and change it. No one would mind.

2:13.0

All right. It's email Friday. We're doing emails on Fridays now.

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