Effectively Wild Episode 663: Your Mostly Excellent Emails
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2015
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Ben and Sam answer listener emails about defining team success, four-man outfields, pitcher offensive futility, baseball’s Star Wars trailer moments, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Here comes success, here comes success |
| 0:04.6 | Over my hill, over my hill |
| 0:09.0 | Here comes success, here comes success |
| 0:13.2 | Here comes my cow, here comes my cow |
| 0:17.8 | Here comes my Chinese rug, here comes my Chinese rug |
| 0:26.2 | Here comes success, here comes success |
| 0:30.8 | Good morning and welcome to episode 663 of Effectively Wild |
| 0:36.0 | The Daily Podcast from Baseball Perspectus |
| 0:38.8 | Presented by the play index at baseballreference.com |
| 0:42.7 | I am Ben Lindbergh of Grantland joined by San Miller |
| 0:46.6 | of Baseball Perspectus. Hello. |
| 0:49.0 | Hello. You know what we never do? |
| 0:51.3 | What we never did is we never did that thing where like one of us goes |
| 0:54.3 | I am Ben Lindbergh and then the other one goes |
| 0:56.4 | and I am San Miller. We could have done that like an episode one |
| 0:59.8 | we could have chosen to do that and we would still be doing it. |
| 1:02.8 | Yeah, there are a lot of people who it would not have made any difference to. |
| 1:07.0 | Maybe they would have figured it out. Maybe. |
| 1:10.0 | I think it would have been more memorable if our names were reversed. |
| 1:14.0 | Someone emailed us about what we would do if we had a freaky Friday scenario |
| 1:18.6 | and switched bodies for a day. I said I would try this squeaky life. |
| 1:24.2 | Yeah, take it for a ride. |
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