Effectively Wild Episode 499: Yesterday, All Your Emails Were So Far Away
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2014
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Ben and Sam answer listener emails about front-loaded contracts, qualifying offers, scouting umpires, pitcher command, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning and welcome to episode 499. |
| 0:29.8 | 499 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from Baseball Perspectus, presented by the |
| 0:34.4 | baseballreference.com Play Index. I am Ben Lindbergh, a writer for Grantland.com, joined |
| 0:40.5 | by Sam Miller, editor-in-chief of Baseball Perspectus. Hello. |
| 0:44.2 | Hi, how are you? |
| 0:46.2 | Okay. So it's another day, of course, and that means that the Diamondbacks played Ben. |
| 0:54.1 | It did. And when the Diamondbacks play, we need headlines. |
| 1:01.1 | So, yeah, that's right. There needs to be a story. |
| 1:03.9 | I'm going to read you 10 headlines that we've got 10. We're selected as top submissions. |
| 1:10.5 | 10. That's twice as many as usual, so you know they're good. You know that they're 10 |
| 1:15.1 | gold headlines. I'm going to, I'm going to, uh, read you these 10. I'm going to ask you |
| 1:19.5 | to pick a winner. But then I'm also just going to ask how much you've learned about the |
| 1:23.6 | game. I mean, if I were given 10 headlines, uh, took in vey the game to you, I think I'd |
| 1:30.2 | like to think that I could pretty much tell you everything you'd get from a game story, |
| 1:34.0 | uh, cumulatively. So we'll see if we can. So 10 submissions. All right. |
| 1:38.9 | Hill keys victory in effort to get out of town. That's how headlines are, right? Isn't |
| 1:46.7 | that how most headlines go? Well, there's some useful information in there. I know who won. |
| 1:55.2 | I know who had something to do with the victory. Yes. And I guess I know where the Diamond |
| 2:01.8 | backs are going to play next. All the way on the road. You would think that they were on |
| 2:07.7 | the road already, right? To get out of town, I would think normally would imply that |
| 2:12.0 | they're in an inhospitable environment. Yeah. But they're, so I think that's slightly |
| 2:16.0 | misleading, but they're actually at home. I think any time you have in effort to in the |
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