Effectively Wild Episode 393: 2014 Season Preview Series: Kansas City Royals
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2014
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Ben and Sam preview the Royals’ season with Craig Brown, and Nick talks to Kansas City Star Royals beat writer Andy McCullough (at 25:35).
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| 0:00.0 | We'll never be blind. |
| 0:02.0 | Why are you into rain and rain? |
| 0:06.0 | They can't let you stay for us. |
| 0:09.0 | We're going to two three kind of fires. |
| 0:11.0 | Let me be a blue moon. |
| 0:14.0 | You can come and keep digging, baby, I'll roll. |
| 0:18.0 | I'll roll, I'll roll. |
| 0:21.0 | Let me live that day. |
| 0:24.0 | Good morning, and welcome to episode 393 of Effectively Wild, |
| 0:28.0 | the Daily Podcast from Baseball Prospectus, presented by the baseballreference.com play index. |
| 0:34.0 | I'm Ben Lindbergh, joined as always by Sam Miller. |
| 0:37.0 | Today, we're doing a Kansas City Royals season preview podcast. |
| 0:41.0 | Later in the show, Nick Wheatley-Showler will be talking to our good friend, Andy McCullough, |
| 0:46.0 | who is now with the Kansas City star. |
| 0:48.0 | Right now, we will be talking to Craig Brown, the managing editor of Royals Review, |
| 0:53.0 | who also wrote the Royals essay in the Baseball Prospectus Annual. |
| 0:56.0 | Hello, Craig. |
| 0:57.0 | Hey, guys. Thanks for having me on. |
| 0:59.0 | Thanks for coming on. |
| 1:00.0 | So a lot of your essay deals with expectations and mindsets, |
| 1:06.0 | what they were before last season, what they are now. |
| 1:10.0 | Can you give us a snapshot of your frame of mind as relates to the Royals |
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