Effectively Wild Episode 559: Andy McCullough is Too Busy To Bask
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2014
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Ben and Sam talk to Kansas City Star Royals beat writer Andy McCullough about the World Series and covering the Royals.
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| 0:00.0 | Excuse me, do you know the way to Kansas City? |
| 0:10.0 | Excuse me, do you know the way to Kansas City? |
| 0:17.0 | Excuse me, do you know the way to Kansas City? |
| 0:22.0 | Good morning and welcome to episode 559 |
| 0:25.0 | of respectively wild, the daily podcast from baseball perspective |
| 0:28.0 | brought to you by the play index at baseballreference.com. |
| 0:32.0 | I'm Sam Miller with Ben Lindbergh of Grantland, hi Ben. |
| 0:36.0 | Hello. |
| 0:37.0 | And we have a guest today, our guest is Andy McCullough of the Kansas City star, Hi Andy. |
| 0:42.0 | Hey guys, how's it going? |
| 0:44.0 | It's good. You know, the time that we had you on, episode 252, |
| 0:49.0 | is a top two show in podcast history for me, in this podcast history, |
| 0:55.0 | not an all podcast history. And it turned out that was the boring job. |
| 1:00.0 | Going to Kansas City is what you really needed to spice up your life as it turned out. |
| 1:05.0 | Absolutely, yeah, I think I was way too one dimensional back then. |
| 1:09.0 | It was all about Alex all the time. Now it's, you know, I've got a can of people to write about. |
| 1:15.0 | I don't know, you missed out on a chance to cover every move on the captain's farewell tour. |
| 1:21.0 | I think you may, you missed out. I think you made the wrong move. |
| 1:26.0 | There were thousands of stories written about Derek Jeter and I read at least three of them. |
| 1:31.0 | So, yeah. All right. So we're having you on because you cover the royals and the royals are in the World Series, |
| 1:41.0 | which is unexpected. And so I'll start by just asking you this. |
| 1:46.0 | I know what Pocoda thinks of this World Series. |
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