Effectively Wild Episode 54: Jeff Luhnow’s Season-Ending Interview Idea/Why Players and Executives Disagree About the AL MVP

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2012

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Sam discuss Jeff Luhnow’s plan to interview his players at the end of each season, then talk about why players and front-office executives are backing different candidates for AL MVP.

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0:00.0	Good morning and welcome to episode 54 of Effectively Wild, the baseball
0:11.8	perspective daily podcast in New York, New York. A little later than usual. Just
0:18.0	around 130 in the morning Eastern time. I am Ben Lindbergh and in Long Beach
0:23.3	California where as always it is three hours earlier is Sam Miller. How are you Sam? Good. I heard a
0:32.8	story on NPR today about an epidemic of crickets in Texas. This is relevant because yesterday we
0:41.0	talked about crickets at the Rangers ballpark and one of the people they interviewed talked about
0:47.5	how when the first cars drive into his parking lot at his business every day it sounds like a car
0:53.1	running over bubble wrap. The crickets listening to this in your garage right now are appalled
1:02.0	and there were crickets in your house yesterday I am given to understand. There were there was a
1:07.4	cricket in our house and another one in our attic and then another one that we found today so they
1:11.4	are moving in and actually well let's limit cricket conversation because I could talk for a long
1:21.4	time about crickets. Okay well we'll just continue to spread it out among our many episodes.
1:28.0	So it's going to be a fun off season Ben. Yes Homer Bailey has a beef with us.
1:36.0	He rented and that was not my word it was the word of a column I read on Cincinnati.com. He rented
1:45.1	a bit about the overlooked reds a couple days ago. He thinks the reds haven't gotten enough attention.
1:53.1	He says no one's even paid attention. You don't even hear about that on ESPN. We keep hearing about
1:58.0	the reds in the 70s. Nobody's talking about this team. This rotation the things we've done the
2:03.1	amount of quality starts the innings etc. He did not call us out by name but you have to imagine
2:11.6	that this was in some way inspired by our not talking about the reds and then being chastised
2:18.8	about it by a commenter and then halfheartedly talking about the reds in a subsequent episode
2:25.1	and then apologizing for that and not having talked about them since.
2:30.1	This podcast now has two inside jokes and everybody who's listening has now heard them both.
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