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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 361: Jay Jaffe on the Top Takeaways from the Hall of Fame Election Season

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2014

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Sam talk to Jay Jaffe about the 2014 Hall of Fame voting results, election-season mud-slinging, the 2015 ballot, and more.

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0:00.0

Here in the hall of hand, you look through the keyhole.

0:08.0

This is the hall of hand, one step through the doorway.

0:16.0

Roll up that special head.

0:20.0

This is our favorite one.

0:24.0

Please don't try to leave.

0:28.0

Don't leave the hall of hand.

0:33.0

Good morning and welcome to episode 361 of Effectively Wild,

0:38.0

the daily podcast from baseballperspectus.com.

0:41.0

I am Ben Lindbergh with Sam Miller, as always.

0:45.0

Hall of Fame election day is over.

0:48.0

Hall of Fame election season is over and we're not entirely sorry to see it go.

0:55.0

But before we put these debates to rest for another year or so,

1:01.0

we wanted to do one more show on this topic and do a little post mortem on the election day results.

1:08.0

And to do that, we brought on the man who has made himself one of the more prominent voices of reason in the Hall of Fame debate and discussion.

1:19.0

So we are joined by SI.com's Jay Jaffee.

1:23.0

And I was going to say his traditional election night bottle of arrogant bastard ale.

1:29.0

But apparently if I'm reading Twitter right, that is not the case.

1:33.0

It's it's just about the case they did.

1:35.0

I usually get a 22 ounce bottle of the arrogant bastard ale by stone brewery out in San Diego.

1:42.0

This is the oak arrogant bastard ale.

1:45.0

It's a slight variation.

1:48.0

I don't normally do the oak, but it was what was available.

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