Effectively Wild Episode 565: Joe Maddon Moves On
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2014
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Ben and Sam discuss Joe Maddon’s decision to opt out of his contract with Tampa Bay, then talk about other front-office comings and goings and Miguel Cabrera’s surgery.
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| 0:00.0 | Sometimes up here we need to move on. |
| 0:06.0 | So I pack a bag, move on, move on. |
| 0:14.0 | Well I might take a train or see a dawn. |
| 0:21.0 | Might take a girl when I move on. |
| 0:27.0 | Good morning and welcome to episode 565 of Effectively Wild, the daily podcast from baseball perspective |
| 0:33.0 | brought to you by the play index at baseballreference.com. |
| 0:37.0 | I'm Sam Miller with Ben Lindbergh of Grantland. Hi Ben. |
| 0:40.0 | Hello. |
| 0:41.0 | I tweeted this but during the game but when I got my media notes hand out in about the 6th or 7th inning of the yesterday's game |
| 0:50.0 | the number one fact, the first, I might be exaggerating, it was very very high. |
| 0:55.0 | I think it was the first fact on the sheet was that the temperatures in these World Series games have been very consistent. |
| 1:02.0 | It actually said like it was like I think it had like a pun about temperature consistency or something. |
| 1:08.0 | And it said that it's the first game in recorded history or the first series in recorded World Series history |
| 1:16.0 | in which all five games were in the 60s. |
| 1:20.0 | And at first I was like what? |
| 1:23.0 | And then I thought oh I wonder if they used the promo code BP to get play index at a special rate of $30 per year |
| 1:31.0 | because that is something you could with play index. |
| 1:34.0 | I'd be surprised if they didn't use play index for that. |
| 1:37.0 | Well maybe they went to a LIS or something but no need. |
| 1:41.0 | You could go to the play index and get that information which is probably as useful as many of the other notes in that media packet. |
| 1:49.0 | I'm glad you asked. I'm going to go over and I'm going to go over and get it. |
| 1:53.0 | Just judging by my recent experience with media packets during the World Series. |
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