Effectively Wild Episode 332: Will Jay Z Revolutionize Being a Baseball Agent?
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2013
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Ben and Sam discuss Jay Z’s potential to be a new kind of agent, and whether they’d want to be one of his clients.
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| 0:00.0 | Scott Boris you over baby, Robinson can know you coming with me. |
| 0:04.1 | Uh uh, what song was that crown? Was that crown? Scott Boris you over, baby. |
| 0:09.1 | Robinson could know you coming with me. The way the homo nighties last |
| 0:12.8 | I ever heard of my life, man. Like tell another dude he's gone and he took the |
| 0:18.3 | it was real and weird. It was crazy. Good morning and welcome to episode |
| 0:23.8 | 332 of Effectively Wide Out of the Daily Podcast from baseball |
| 0:28.3 | perspective. I am Ben Lindbergh joined as always by Sam Miller. How are you? |
| 0:35.7 | Same. Same as yesterday. Same as always. Always the same. |
| 0:41.2 | All right. So did you bring a topic for us today? |
| 0:45.9 | I did. I want to talk about Jay-Z and uh well you know Jay-Z. I've heard of him. |
| 0:53.1 | I know him personally. Okay. So uh so Jay-Z uh I don't know you and I haven't had a |
| 0:59.5 | conversation about Jay-Z and in baseball and you know I'm not sure I've seen it |
| 1:03.8 | a real conversation about Jay-Z and baseball. There may have been some but |
| 1:08.3 | mostly what I see are uh some jokes and some sort of flip comments |
| 1:14.4 | about his role in negotiations or his role not negotiations or |
| 1:18.9 | or whatever. But I don't know if we've grappled really with what it means that Jay-Z's |
| 1:25.1 | going to be in in in the sport now or if it means anything. So the news |
| 1:30.6 | book on this is that Jay-Z's uh well Robinson |
| 1:36.9 | Kenos I guess agent at CAA which is what's representing him along with Jay-Z |
| 1:44.2 | who has a who has a relationship with CAA so it's like kind of the same thing |
| 1:48.4 | kind of different. Anyway his agent from CAA was on |
| 1:51.8 | MLB Network Radio and said that Jay-Z is |
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