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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 61: Division Series Round-Up/Giving Darren O’Day His Due

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2012

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Sam catch up with the latest action developments in each of the just-completed or still-in-progress playoff series, then discuss Darren O’Day in greater depth.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Good morning, and welcome to Effectively Wild, the daily podcast from baseball all-perspectus.

0:11.5

It is Friday, October 12th, and we are on episode 61 here with Ben Lindbergh, who is in

0:19.9

New York, New York.

0:21.6

Ben, did you take any detours to Brooklyn last night?

0:25.5

No, I slept for a few hours after we recorded yesterday, and that has been enough to keep me

0:31.4

going.

0:32.4

I felt like I was about to take a trip to Brooklyn, so I listened to the last episode

0:38.7

of up and in, which I had been saving for a special occasion.

0:43.9

And so that got me through the train ride, conscious.

0:48.6

So the state of baseball at the moment is that there are two game fives to go today.

0:56.7

The Nationals and the Cardinals and the Orioles and the Yankees.

1:01.0

Meanwhile, the Giants have beaten the Reds in their game five, and the Tigers have beaten

1:06.6

the A's in their game five, and they will be advancing.

1:11.9

So quick, when everybody talks about the bad scheduling of the two-three this year, if

1:19.7

I'm reading this correctly, and I feel like I must not be, but everywhere I go is the

1:23.5

same thing.

1:24.5

The ALCS begins tomorrow.

1:26.5

Yes, it does.

1:28.3

That seems to me far crazier.

1:31.5

Yeah, I mean, the fact that the Orioles and Yankees have to play tonight and possibly

1:41.2

both managers said it would be sort of a all-hins-on-deck situation where anyone would be available

1:47.2

and everyone would be used, if necessary.

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