Effectively Wild Episode 53: Is the Second Wild Card Working?/Explaining Mainstream Screeds Against Advanced Stats

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2012

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Sam discuss whether the second wild card has made the stretch run more exciting, then talk about why papers publish columns that criticize advanced stats without making an effort to understand them.

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0:00.0	Good morning, and good evening, and welcome to episode 53 of Effectively Wild, the daily
0:15.0	podcast from baseball perspectives.
0:18.0	We are recording this just after midnight, New York, New York time, where Ben Linberg
0:24.9	is joining me, Ben, how are you today?
0:29.0	Wonderful.
0:30.0	Thank you for asking.
0:31.0	How was your weekend?
0:33.0	Pretty uneventful, just kind of a standard weekend.
0:38.4	Did you tweet?
0:39.4	I don't think I tweeted once this weekend.
0:42.4	I had a hard time tweeting when I'm not working, and I wasn't really working, so I wasn't
0:47.6	tweeting either.
0:50.3	And did you bring a topic?
0:52.7	Yeah.
0:53.7	I want to talk a little bit about articles that wonder what war is.
0:59.7	Okay, Dope.
1:00.7	And I want to talk about crickets.
1:04.7	Okay.
1:05.7	Why don't I start?
1:08.7	Yes, why don't I start?
1:10.7	Because I don't really know where yours is going to go, and I'm a little worried about
1:14.7	it.
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