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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 605: Emails for the Asking

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2015

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Sam answer listener emails about a world without the minors, bigger bats, Ernie Banks, and more.

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0:00.0

I need to know how you feel.

0:07.0

How am I to know if you don't tell me so, tell me so, tell me so.

0:16.7

Good morning and welcome to episode 605 of Effectively Wild, the daily podcast from

0:22.2

baseball perspectives presented by the play index at baseballreference.com.

0:26.6

I am Ben Lindbergh of Grantland, joined by Sam Miller of baseball perspectives.

0:31.1

Hello.

0:32.1

How are you?

0:33.1

How are you?

0:34.1

I am okay, thank you.

0:35.3

Good.

0:36.3

This podcast is the only thing between me and a sled and a hill with snow on it.

0:42.0

Where's your hill?

0:43.0

Central Park.

0:44.0

Pilgrim Hill.

0:45.0

It's a sizable hill.

0:46.4

You own the sled?

0:47.5

I have a couple of those cheapo plastic things.

0:51.7

One of them a circle that you have no control over and one of them that you have slightly

0:56.1

more control over.

0:57.5

And so when as a father, I've learned that you're actually not allowed to hang out at a

1:03.6

playground if you don't have kids, which is fine because I have kids.

1:07.8

But if you don't have kids, you're definitely not allowed to be there.

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