Effectively Wild Episode 594: The Year’s Last Listener Emails
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2014
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Ben and Sam end the year by answering listener emails about Barry Bonds, baseball in pop culture, Wil Myers, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Truth be told it happens once again in seven days |
| 0:07.0 | A new year's you can't view the moldy spikes in which Ruth played |
| 0:13.0 | And also on Thanksgiving, though I guarantee you all |
| 0:22.0 | On any other day a fan can stand out in the hall |
| 0:29.0 | So Merry Christmas, Cooper's Town, and Happy Brand New Year |
| 0:37.0 | Good morning and welcome to episode 594 of Effectively Wild |
| 0:41.0 | The Daily Podcast from Baseball Perspectus presented by the Play Index at baseballreference.com |
| 0:46.0 | I am Ben Lindbergh of Grantland, joined by Sam Miller of Baseball Perspectus |
| 0:51.0 | Hello, yo, how are you? |
| 0:53.0 | Good, Happy New Year |
| 0:55.0 | Happy New Year to everyone listening |
| 0:58.0 | Especially those who have listened to us all year |
| 1:00.0 | This is our end of our second full year |
| 1:04.0 | Doing this thing for two and a half years, just scary thought |
| 1:07.0 | Yes, what do you mean the significance of it being the end of our second full year? |
| 1:15.0 | I don't know |
| 1:17.0 | It's not like we started, we did... |
| 1:19.0 | It's a time for taking stock |
| 1:21.0 | But why don't you just say this is our third New Year's Eve show? |
| 1:25.0 | Okay, I mean I'm not saying that, that's not like anybody's going to nominate that line for the podcasties |
| 1:34.0 | Are we doing New Year's resolutions? |
| 1:38.0 | As we recommended that beatwriters do last show or predicted that beatwriters would do |
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