Effectively Wild Episode 422: Is Oakland’s Ballpark an Embarrassment to Baseball?

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Baseball, Sports

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2014

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Ben and Sam discuss MLB’s obligation to the Oakland A’s.

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0:00.0	Don't you ever forget the cupid's made a way to all come back out and act out emotions and hope don't you ever forget?
0:06.7	It could be fatal, wait until they all come back out and act out emotions and hope don't you ever forget?
0:12.2	It could be fatal, wait until the soul has come back out and act out emotions and hope don't you ever forget?
0:17.9	It could be fatal, wait until they all come back out and act out emotions and hope don't you ever forget?
0:24.5	It could be fatal, wait until they all come back out and act out emotions and hope don't you ever forget?
0:27.3	Good morning and welcome to episode 422 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from Baseball
0:33.5	Prospectus, presented by the Play Index at baseballreference.com. I'm Sam Miller with Ben Lindbergh. Ben, how are you?
0:42.3	Great!
0:43.7	Oh, you know, did you see, and I didn't hear this myself and I guess I should be careful about,
0:50.9	you know, sports talk radio hearsay or whatever, but somebody said that Dave O'Brien,
0:57.9	the Red Sox, one of the Red Sox radio guys, after Yassio Puyg showed up late on Friday,
1:07.3	as it was relayed to me, sort of relayed to me. I mean, I saw it. I saw somebody say it.
1:16.0	He said he went, he was talking about how, you know, Puyg is going to be out of the league in like two
1:23.5	years or something like that. That is as hot as they get. I sent you a hot take by someone.
1:32.2	Did you? Yeah, there were some really hot ones. I mean, how long do you think it will be before
1:41.2	the first article about Yassio Puyg, veteran mentor, when he settles down and he matures and he's
1:49.8	mentoring a young player who is hot-headed? I would say that generally it's a pretty quick turn
1:55.8	around. However, I think that Puyg is genuinely as bad as, I mean, like, I don't think that we need
2:01.7	to vilify him the way that he is necessarily, and I don't think that the fact that he's crazy
2:06.8	means that he needs to be DFAed or anything like that. However, I do believe that he is just as
2:13.2	crazy as he's made out to be. Like, I think that Puyg is completely uncontrollable and is going to,
2:19.9	you know, do something to damage himself or, you know, I mean, it really does seem like this is
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