Effectively Wild Episode 580: Don’t Leave Home Without Listener Emails

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2014

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Ben and Sam end the holiday week with listener emails about Red Sox spending, the least similar teams, clubs doubling down on position players, and more.

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0:00.0	And you can fly my outer kite if you want to
0:08.5	Faster than light if you want to
0:13.6	Speed and truly universe
0:18.8	Thinking is the best way to travel
0:23.9	You
0:26.8	Good morning and welcome to episode 580 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from baseball
0:32.4	Perspectus presented by the Play Index at baseballreference.com. I am Ben Lemberg of
0:37.6	Grantland joined by Sam Miller from baseball perspective. Hello. Hello. How are you?
0:44.1	Pretty good. This is our last show of the week. We're going to end it on a multiple of five,
0:49.9	which just doesn't feel the same anymore. Now that we are no longer a five show per week show
0:57.0	For the time being but still it's nice. So we will talk today and give people something to
1:03.2	Listen to on a bad weather Wednesday as they head home for Thanksgiving
1:08.5	We are going to do listener emails. Is there anything you'd like to talk about before we begin?
1:14.8	No
1:17.7	No
1:20.6	All right, I guess
1:23.3	First of all, so somebody just tweeted at us
1:26.9	A rumor
1:28.7	What is what is deemed to be a non-revolatory rumor by person who tweeted it as
1:34.6	In this tweet this this rumor is report that Cubs offered Lex Lester a six-year deal of more than 135 million dollars is not accurate
1:43.2	Which seems to be very revelatory
1:48.0	So I think that we're seeing a probably an unnecessary lowering of the bar. I think that we need to
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