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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 662: Michael Schur on Metacommentary 10 Years After Fire Joe Morgan’s First Post

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2015

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

On the 10th anniversary of Fire Joe Morgan’s first post, Ben and Sam talk to Michael Schur about FJM, sports-media sins in the age of Twitter and, oddly enough, The O.C.

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0:00.0

I'm attorney Trevor Nelson with the law firm for dips win shares grit bebepeco

0:03.8

code of warp next time legal counsel to the new port family good morning and welcome to episode

0:09.1

662 of effectively wild the daily podcast from baseball prospectus i am ben linberg of grantland

0:15.6

joined by sam miller of baseball prospectus hello sam howdy our guest today has probably created

0:22.0

more content that i have consumed than any other one person over the past decade i think we now

0:28.6

have the perspective on his career to say that he probably peaked with his appearance as paul

0:33.9

on the fourth season of the oc but if that was the peak he has had a productive decline face

0:40.0

you know him from his work on the office and as the co-creator of parks and recreation in brookland

0:45.0

nine nine you know him from the podcast the show that he co-hosts or permanently guests on with

0:50.8

jopaz nansky and of course you know him as kentramendus both on twitter and on the blog that many

0:57.1

listeners of this podcast probably knew him from first fire joe morgan his name is michael shore

1:02.4

hey michael hello thank you for having me if we did a long time to hear that i had to cut some of

1:09.6

your jobs out of that introduction it's like you know when you update your resume every few years you

1:14.0

have to remove your oldest job so that you can fit your newest job and and for most people that means

1:18.7

taking out the summer that you spent as a camp counselor but for you it's the six seasons you

1:23.5

spent writing for Saturday night live but basically the same same concept i like that you cut that

1:28.7

out but you left in and i played a character named paul in one episode of the co-cee like 15 years ago

1:35.9

that was the the most exciting thing in my entire oc watching experience i think because my

1:42.0

girlfriend had watched the oc when it was airing and i hadn't and so she had warned me that there

1:46.8

is going to be an episode where max grinfield was on the show and as as young sandy so we were

1:52.4

both looking forward to that and then all of a sudden you appear in the fourth to last episode of

1:57.2

the oc as a potential threat to seth and summer's relationship so that was yeah it was not that was

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