Effectively Wild Episode 493: Listener Emails for Your Off-Day
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2014
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Ben and Sam banter about the All-Star Game and answer listener emails about All-Stars vs. Snubs, overly long-term contracts, teaming up on Trout, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | I know there's an answer, I know now but I left to find you by myself. |
| 0:10.0 | But do we do that? |
| 0:18.0 | Good morning and welcome to episode 493 of Effectively Wild Food. |
| 0:24.0 | Daily Baseball Podcasts at Baseball Prospectus presented by the BaseballReference.com Playindex. |
| 0:32.0 | I am Ben Lindbergh, soon to be a staff writer for Grantland. |
| 0:36.0 | You are Sam Miller, Editor-in-Chief of Baseball Prospectus. How is that for an intro? |
| 0:42.0 | Yeah, that's good. If it's at Baseball Prospectus, don't you think we can just continue saying that they lead podcast from Baseball Prospectus? |
| 0:50.0 | We probably could. Say with Ben Lindbergh from Grantland. |
| 0:56.0 | Yeah, I think we can do that. |
| 0:58.0 | It is still hosted by Baseball Prospectus. |
| 1:02.0 | Yeah, exactly. How was your all-star game experience? |
| 1:08.0 | It was okay. It's my... |
| 1:10.0 | It's some good tweets. |
| 1:12.0 | Thanks. |
| 1:14.0 | I counted the entire time. |
| 1:20.0 | Oh, right. You were counting cheater references, right? |
| 1:24.0 | Well, I was, but not only that. I decided that wasn't telling. |
| 1:28.0 | So I counted every reference made to every player. |
| 1:32.0 | Uh-huh. |
| 1:34.0 | So any time a player was named... |
| 1:36.0 | Did you see any of the game where you're just marking names at the spreadsheet the whole time? |
| 1:42.0 | No, you'd be surprised, but actually the naming of ball players in a game in which they're playing happens quite a bit. |
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