Effectively Wild Episode 463: Listeners Ask the Difficult Questions
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2014
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Ben and Sam answer listener emails about pitch selection, recruiting skills, bionic arms, and learning to scout.
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| 0:00.0 | How am I supposed to let it show when I don't even know? |
| 0:18.9 | Don't ask me to risk it, don't ask me to risk it, don't ask me to risk it, don't ask me to |
| 0:25.0 | risk it, don't ask me to risk it, don't ask me to risk it, don't ask me to risk it, don't ask me to risk it, don't ask me to risk it, don't ask me to risk it, don't ask me to risk it, don't ask me to risk it, don't ask me to risk it, don't ask me to risk it, don't ask me to risk it, don't ask me to risk it, don't ask me to risk it, don't ask me to risk it, don't ask me to risk it, don't ask me to risk it, don't ask me to risk it, don't ask me to risk it, don't ask me to risk it, don't ask me to risk it, don't ask me to risk it, don't ask me to risk it, don't ask me to risk it, don't ask me to risk it, don't ask me to risk it, don't ask me to risk it, don't ask me to risk it, don't ask me |
| 0:55.0 | if you were in the press box, eagerly awaiting, we were wondering whether there would be an announcement, whether they would take off, dig the mound out of the rubber out of the mound, you could do them with the scoreboard and it turned out to not be web in the boys and says to this family barbecue report, we're in the press box freaking out and nobody else in here knows what's going on. |
| 1:25.0 | They're not full of effectively wild listeners, they're just being more discreet about it because they know cheering for Ryan Webb to finish a game in the press box. |
| 1:35.0 | You know what I think it was, is I think that his manager, I think Buck Schoelalter didn't want him to break the record on the road, he wants him to break the record at home. |
| 1:45.0 | That could be it. |
| 1:46.0 | So he held him out of this game, he'll wait until Baltimore. |
| 1:50.0 | Although as we established, it's not the record, right, for games finished without a save. |
| 1:55.0 | There was a listener email or a listener who did a play index. |
| 2:00.0 | There has been a longer streak. |
| 2:02.0 | There has been a longer streak, but not to start a career and not to end a career, which is currently, like if the world ends tomorrow, then they will go into the great beyond without having ever saved one. |
| 2:15.0 | So nobody's ever, it's a, come on Ben, it's a record. |
| 2:19.0 | Right, but do we already established recently that records to begin careers are worthless to you? |
| 2:25.0 | This record is worthless to me, but this the point, Ben, this is the longest stretch without a save by games finished. |
| 2:36.0 | That's, it's not a record that we need to have a lot of integrity about. |
| 2:40.0 | It's taken on a deeper meaning to me. |
| 2:43.0 | All right, so we got a response to a listener email show from, I don't know, a couple of weeks ago, Zachary Levine of baseball perspectives who's been on the show many times wanted to respond to our question about what rule, |
| 2:58.0 | what rule baseball could adopt to make it more like the XFL, or what, what rule the XFL of baseball, the equivalent, would adopt that maybe majorly baseball could have could adapt. |
| 3:11.0 | And Zachary's suggestion was that you eliminate tagging up. |
| 3:17.0 | So he says, if the ball is hit in the air, the runner can advance it is own risk with the bases being his safe havens. |
| 3:24.0 | It's just a continuation of the time before and during the pitch, one of the problems with three true outcome era to people who see it as a problem is a lack of action with the ball and play. |
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