Effectively Wild Episode 34: Making Sense of the Orioles and MLB’s Blackout Policy

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2012

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Sam discuss two baseball mysteries: the Orioles’ success in 2012, and MLB’s blackout policy.

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0:00.0	Good morning and good evening. Welcome to Effectively Wild, the daily podcast from Baseball
0:15.8	Prospectus. It is episode 34 and we are recording this approximately one hour after the conclusion
0:24.4	of the recording of the final episode of up and in Kevin Goldstein and St. Parks Tremendous
0:32.1	podcast which we will all be terribly sad to see go in the wake of Kevin Goldstein's amazing
0:40.0	new career. In honor of that, Ben Lindbergh, what are you drinking? Nothing. This is a 15 minute
0:51.6	podcast so we don't really have time to crack a beer and you know get a few beers deep like they do
0:58.5	on up and in or did on up and in and I just finished dinner and I had some wine at dinner but that's
1:08.4	over now. All right, where are you Ben? I am coming to you via satellite from Languera Island which
1:19.7	is the northernmost island of the Queen Charlotte Islands in British Columbia, Canada. Approximately
1:26.1	28 miles south of Alaska and you did your best to replace me with a guest host but I was not
1:35.8	having it and I'm here anyway. Your commitment to keeping Ian Miller off the air is admirable.
1:44.4	Yeah, he is his own podcast. You can talk on that one. But I fed up all the eagle today and I
1:55.4	what did you feed it to? I fed it a fish that was not a keeper so we tossed it to a ball
2:02.8	legal and then I almost cut a five foot shark. It got right up to the boat and then it got away
2:09.9	and I found out that my fishing guides do once singled off of Tim Linsicum in high school.
2:18.4	Oh in high school, wow and are these stories all lies to mislead us so that we don't
2:24.4	figure out that you're actually in Houston interviewing with Houston Astros?
2:27.8	No, these are all true. I just wanted to make your day look boring by comparison although I know
2:32.6	that you just concluded a fancy dinner party. I sure. So anyway, I'm Sam Miller in Long Beach
2:42.7	with the door open and we have an episode ahead so what should we talk about?
2:48.7	Well, I've been sort of out of touch this weekend and have not seen any baseball though I have
2:54.0	read about baseball which is not really all that different from what I usually do. I wanted to
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