Effectively Wild Episode 454: Lend Us Your Listener Emails

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2014

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Ben and Sam banter about ejections and the Diamondbacks, then answer listener emails about pitch count histories, career strikeout records, a baseball version of the XFL, and more.

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0:00.0	All day long, close to God, waiting on you to answer me.
0:24.0	Good morning and welcome to episode 454 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcasts from
0:31.5	Baseball Prospectus presented by the BaseballReference.com.pl and next I am Ben Lindbergh,
0:37.0	joined as always by Sam Miller.
0:40.0	Hi, how are you?
0:43.0	Good.
0:44.0	We're doing listener email show, but you have something to say before we do.
0:51.0	You were right.
0:53.0	Check the itinerary.
0:55.0	I'm sorry.
0:57.0	What is this?
0:58.0	You said that you had some quick banter on cricket ejections.
1:03.0	Oh, well, a few of you did reply with an update on cricket ejections.
1:09.0	We asked, we wanted to know how cricket ejections compared to baseball ejections.
1:15.0	So basically the summary is there are far fewer arguable calls in cricket, more straight forward calls, fewer arguable calls.
1:29.0	That is one thing.
1:32.0	But there are no managers in cricket.
1:36.0	There are only player managers, if I'm reading this correctly.
1:40.0	And so that would actually be more significant than losing old Clint Hurdle or whatever to the clubhouse if you actually lost the player.
1:51.0	It's the captain basically.
1:53.0	Your manager is your captain.
1:55.0	So that's significant.
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