Effectively Wild Episode 358: Is Hall of Fame Balloting Really Broken?
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2014
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Ben and Sam discuss what the early results of the Hall of Fame voting say about the induction process.
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| 0:00.0 | There's one thing you know baseball to me has never lost. It's a pretty it's feeling for me |
| 0:05.1 | I love it now as I didn't like first started. Yeah, they're going to erect a statue of you |
| 0:09.8 | Have have you seen the statue? |
| 0:11.8 | Do you know if it looks enough like you? It does have you seen it? Well, I hope it's in the bathing suit |
| 0:17.7 | You know show my my massive strength. It's I don't know I to me that's it's probably one of the greatest honors |
| 0:24.1 | I've ever received and I just don't know what to say |
| 0:27.5 | God, thanks |
| 0:31.9 | Good morning and welcome to episode 358 of effectively wild the daily podcast from baseball perspective.com |
| 0:40.7 | I am Benlundberg joined by Sam Miller who sounds like he's having some nuts |
| 0:47.5 | M&Ms |
| 0:48.9 | Allens almonds. Okay, first guess was right. I like an almond |
| 0:55.0 | Sometimes too |
| 0:57.8 | What are we what are we talking about today? |
| 1:01.2 | Well, Ben |
| 1:03.2 | The topic that's on everybody's mind |
| 1:06.7 | Our favorite thing to talk about |
| 1:10.0 | The Hall of Fame. Oh, you're kidding me. I thought we were going to get through this whole |
| 1:15.4 | Hall of Fame season having talked about it for about two minutes once |
| 1:20.5 | Well, Ben, let me ask you something this weekend. Did you find yourself checking any of the |
| 1:27.0 | Hall of Fame ballot pulling |
| 1:29.5 | sites that the collectors the |
| 1:32.7 | baseball think factory gizmo or Leo kiddie's spreadsheet. I did not this weekend |
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