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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 418: Jonah Keri on the Beginning, End, and Importance of the Expos

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2014

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Sam talk to Jonah Keri about his new book about the Montreal Expos, Up, Up & Away, as well as expansion draft strategy and spelling defense with a c.

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0:00.0

This one's for the kid, and the cat, and the hawk, and this one's for a great marry walk, and the rock, and this one's for L, present time, table, and no gas, right?

0:08.4

This one's for a safe stand, broken blood, sometimes, it's the little things that bring us together, that's why I'm an ex-boy, forever, forever.

0:15.8

I'm stuck in your way, and the memories will never fade.

0:23.8

Good morning, and welcome to episode 418 of Effectively Wild,

0:27.8

the Daily Podcast from Baseball Prospectus, presented by the BaseballReference.com Playindex.

0:32.8

I am Ben Lindbergh, joined as always by Sam Miller.

0:35.8

We are recording this at the end of a day on which 26 teams played baseball games, so we thought, why not take this time to talk about a team that hasn't played a game in almost a decade?

0:46.8

Sam and I over the last week or two have been reading Jonah Carey's new book, Up Up in a Way,

0:52.8

which also has a subtitle that we don't have time to say.

0:57.8

We like the book, and Sam has already reviewed it for the site, but we also wanted to talk to Jonah about it.

1:04.8

Everyone knows Jonah, his main claim to fame is editing Sam's favorite edition of the Baseball Prospectus annual.

1:13.8

But he also writes for Grantland.com, and appears on Baseball tonight these days, and wrote a book about the raise, the extra 2%.

1:20.8

So, hey Jonah.

1:22.8

So this is a Baseball Prospectus podcast, and the last time that I was on a Baseball Prospectus podcast,

1:27.8

I did something that became mildly meme-worthy, which is rare, and so I'm going to do it again.

1:34.8

Fellas!

1:35.8

This is a guest bandingly good time, and it's good here. Good to be with you.

1:39.8

But probably not as good as it was to be in Montreal this weekend, I imagine.

1:44.8

You, from following your Twitter feed, it seemed like you were feeling some feelings.

1:49.8

So can you share those feelings with us? Just tell us a little bit about what it was like to see baseball played in Montreal again.

1:55.8

It was pretty amazing. I mean, there were kind of two prongs to it.

1:58.8

One was just going as a fan, and it was pretty cool.

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