Effectively Wild Episode 495: What We Would Put in Our Player Manuals
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2014
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
On the podcast’s second anniversary, Ben and Sam banter about several subjects, then talk about what they would include in a team’s instructional manual.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi Ben, how do you think it's going so far? |
| 0:03.8 | We haven't made any obvious mistakes yet. |
| 0:05.4 | I don't know that we've really hooked anyone yet either, but people are still probably |
| 0:09.6 | reserving judgment at this point. |
| 0:12.0 | Probably. |
| 0:13.0 | I feel like we do have a long future ahead of us though, so it's a good start. |
| 0:16.8 | I hope we'll look back at these last few minutes very fondly. |
| 0:21.0 | Good morning and welcome to episode 495 of Effectively Wild, the daily podcast from baseball |
| 0:26.5 | Prospectus presented by the baseballreference.com play index. |
| 0:30.4 | I am Ben Lindbergh, about to be a writer for grantlin.com. |
| 0:34.8 | joined as usual by Sam Miller, editor-in-chief of baseball prospectus. |
| 0:39.1 | Hello Sam. |
| 0:40.1 | How do you been? |
| 0:41.1 | It's a milestone episode. |
| 0:43.0 | This is our second anniversary of the first episode of Effectively Wild, which you went |
| 0:49.3 | back and listened to and not only did you do that, but you tweeted the link to that episode |
| 0:56.1 | out so that other people could listen to it, which I'm not on board with your decision |
| 1:01.3 | to do that, but you did. |
| 1:03.6 | Yeah, I enjoyed it. |
| 1:05.5 | It was nice, short, digestible. |
| 1:08.3 | There were some good lines in it. |
| 1:09.8 | You sounded awful. |
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