Effectively Wild Episode 419: The Return of the Mid-Week Email Show
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2014
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Ben and Sam answer listener emails about Mike Trout (as usual), clubhouse etiquette, the worst teams in baseball, catcher framing and unwritten rules, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Don't give up on any of the so-called stunts. |
| 0:06.0 | See it, see it, that's the moment in the above chance. |
| 0:19.0 | Good morning and welcome to episode 419 of Effectively Wild, |
| 0:24.0 | the daily podcast from baseball prospectus presented by the Play Index |
| 0:28.0 | at baseballreference.com. I'm Sam Miller with Ben Linberg. Ben, how are you? |
| 0:33.0 | Very well, thank you. |
| 0:35.0 | We're not, well, I'm not the first one to complain about this, but I just, |
| 0:41.0 | I don't think there's a, a worse thing that Bud Seeley has ever done as commissioner |
| 0:47.0 | than having no daygames in the second game of the season. |
| 0:52.0 | Yeah, it was a little strange. I looked at the schedule last night and was hoping to see one. |
| 0:57.0 | But didn't. |
| 0:59.0 | Yeah, I think this happened I think last year or maybe the year before too. |
| 1:04.0 | Yeah, I don't know, I mean, it's, I presumably, you know, |
| 1:10.0 | baseball gets higher ratings at night and so, you know, probably they have financial incentives |
| 1:16.0 | to have lots of night games, but I'm at a point in my life where I don't actually |
| 1:20.0 | get to watch any baseball at night because I have family and children and work to do. |
| 1:24.0 | And during the day, I can blow all that off and it's like, why doesn't Bud Seeley think about those |
| 1:29.0 | those of us who are baseball writers? |
| 1:31.0 | Yes, we should be his first priority, really. |
| 1:34.0 | There's dozens of us on Twitter. |
| 1:39.0 | Tweet stuff all the time? |
| 1:41.0 | No, I mean, even before I wrote about baseball, I was much more likely to watch a game, |
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