Effectively Wild Episode 654: How to Talk About Offense in 2015
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2015
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Ben and Sam talk about how we should talk about baseball’s latest decline in scoring.
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| 0:00.0 | I keep my eye on the sparrow, keep my focus spread in narrow. |
| 0:07.0 | I listen to the music and it books about its makers. |
| 0:11.0 | I read books about baseball. |
| 0:13.0 | The swingers and the takers, but what I love even more is pouring over my scores. |
| 0:21.0 | Good morning and welcome to episode 654 of Effectively Wild, |
| 0:26.0 | the Daily Podcast from baseball perspective, presented by the play index at |
| 0:31.0 | baseballreference.com. I am Ben Lindbergh of Grantland, joined by Sam Miller of baseball |
| 0:36.0 | perspectives. Hi. Howdy. How are you? |
| 0:39.0 | Okay. You think the banter about? No. |
| 0:43.0 | Gosh, I was hoping you would say yes. |
| 0:46.0 | Did you see the TV intro that had all the misspelled names? |
| 0:50.0 | I did. Yes, the deadspin Cubs local broadcast. |
| 0:54.0 | Do you... that feels like a mean. |
| 1:00.0 | It feels like a bid for a mean. It feels like a trick. |
| 1:03.0 | Doesn't that feel like a trick? It's too obvious. |
| 1:06.0 | It did seem really obvious. If it was one misspelling or... |
| 1:12.0 | And the ways that the names were misspelled. |
| 1:15.0 | If you're going to misspell Cincinnati, that's easy. |
| 1:18.0 | I've misspelled Cincinnati. |
| 1:20.0 | But... |
| 1:21.0 | One in... |
| 1:22.0 | Geez, I've been... |
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