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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 551: Debating Postseason Unpredictability and Decisive Game Fours

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2014

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Ben, Sam, and Zachary Levine discuss whether the postseason is too unpredictable and then break down the managerial decisions from two decisive NLDS games.

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This walk that I can sing,

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To make you know when

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Hold you down,

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Maybe you want to see

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Don't cry,

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No tears around me

0:22.0

Good morning and welcome to episode 5 51 of Effective New Wild

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The Daily Podcast from baseball to expect this

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presented by the play index at baseballreference.com. I'm Sam Miller with

0:32.0

Grantland's Ben Lindbergue, Hi Ben. Hi.

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And we're also joined by Zachary Levine of baseball

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Perspectus for a hot takeoff.

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Not really. I think Ben has claimed that he has a hot take.

0:48.0

Zachary doesn't probably consider it a hot take,

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but it could be spun as a hot take.

0:56.0

I mean the original idea was that we would fake hot takes

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But I feel like the hot takes that we were going to fake are legitimate

1:06.0

Takes or minds, minds, absolutely a real hot take.

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Yeah, they were like even even hotter real takes

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Surface after we discussed doing fake hot takes.

1:18.0

Alright, well good. So I can't wait to hear these takes and engage their hotness.

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Zachary,

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