Effectively Wild Episode 343: Some Questions Asked
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2013
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Ben and Sam answer listener emails about the high-strikeout era, baseball with soccer scoring, unintentional walks and reaching on error, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | From the wonderful world of sports, we bring you home-run Derby, where each week the leading home-run |
| 0:09.2 | hitters of the major leagues will compete in a home-run hitting contest. |
| 0:15.6 | Good morning and welcome to episode 343 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from Baseball |
| 0:21.6 | Perspectus. I'm Sam Miller with Ben Lindbergh. We are closing out the week with an email Friday |
| 0:28.0 | and this is not an email that we're going to answer, but I don't know if you saw Ben. Did you see |
| 0:32.0 | the email from some press, you know, PR person who was trying to get us interested in |
| 0:40.8 | low and in the dirt, Ken Griffey Jr. and me, Baseball stars former best friend, |
| 0:45.5 | exposes, extortion and destruction and blistering new book? I did not. Did I receive that? |
| 0:52.4 | I've gotten in multiple times. Maybe it came to my account and not the podcast account, but |
| 0:57.2 | I just can't imagine a scandal book that has less of an audience. Like, who is out there that |
| 1:06.4 | just wants to re-dirt on Ken Griffey Jr.? Yeah, I don't know. It doesn't seem like they're being |
| 1:14.7 | finally going to get that guy. I think I would be much more interested in reading a tell-all book |
| 1:24.7 | by Ken Griffey Jr. best friend about A-Rod, maybe. But not about Griffey. I don't want to see |
| 1:32.8 | anybody saying anything bad about Griffey. No. Yeah. All right. Yeah, go ahead. Yeah. No, that's |
| 1:39.4 | it. That's the whole story. Okay. Well, I had an epiphany today while I was, I think I figured out |
| 1:47.1 | what kind of players I like or what characteristics of players I like, because I was writing about |
| 1:54.4 | Aoki. Yeah. And I found myself falling for him. I love Aoki. I was actually mad because that broke |
| 2:03.0 | when my pupils were dilated. Yeah. Aoki and Mojica are both guys I consider my guys. Yeah. |
| 2:10.5 | Yeah. And I couldn't write about either one of them. Yeah. So I think for me it is, it's either |
| 2:18.2 | and I was thinking about, like, Hannigan and Gentry, because he wouldn't let me talk about them |
| 2:23.1 | and why I like them. And I think it's either players who do something |
| 2:30.2 | unique, like they have one skill that is better, that no one else has, or they just have |
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