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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 562: How Kansas City Evened the Series

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2014

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Sam discuss the deceptive stats, mistaken managers, and rejuvenated Royals of World Series Game 2.

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0:00.0

This is me at our first row of town, and if you want we'll change our sound, we'll play.

0:06.0

Yeah, we'll play.

0:08.0

Anything that you want, all we want from you is a word or two.

0:16.0

Good morning, and welcome to episode 562 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast,

0:22.0

from Baseball Perspectus, presented by the play index at BaseballReference.com.

0:26.0

I am Ben Lindbergh of Grantland.com, joined by Sam Miller of Baseball Perspectus.

0:31.0

Hello.

0:32.0

Hi, how are you?

0:33.0

Okay.

0:34.0

I am preparing to fly home, but first the podcast, anything to get to before we talk about the game?

0:42.0

Just quickly, you know that, I think it's an ad for Geico motorcycle insurance that uses the wallflowersong one headlight.

0:52.0

One headlight, have you seen that one?

0:55.0

If so, it hasn't stuck in my head.

0:58.0

It's been constant, just absolutely constant during the postseason.

1:02.0

And I just wondered if you had an opinion about using a song that makes sense in that it's called One Headlight,

1:11.0

and it's about motorcycle insurance, that seems clever, and it seems like a perfect fit.

1:17.0

But the song is not actually about a motorcycle headlight.

1:23.0

And so I just wondered whether that's ethical.

1:26.0

I think I've probably done the same thing with podcast intro songs.

1:30.0

So, if not, I'm guilty of the same sin.

1:34.0

Yeah, it's not quite the same commitment to the theme of the song.

1:38.0

Uh-huh.

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