Effectively Wild Episode 68: The Obligatory World Series Preview Episode

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2012

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Ben and Sam discuss the most interesting angles heading into the series and succumb to the pressure to make their picks.

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0:00.0	difficult to see. Always emotion is the future.
0:04.4	Good morning, and welcome to episode 68 of effectively wild, the baseball
0:09.9	perspective daily podcast in New York, New York. I am Ben Lindbergh. And in Long Beach,
0:15.8	California, I am joined by Sam Miller, or rather, he is in Long Beach, California, joining
0:22.2	me. We have written about the World Series and read about the World Series. And I'm so
0:28.5	bored already. But we so bored. And it didn't even start yet. It didn't even start. And we
0:36.2	haven't even talked about it yet. But we probably shouldn't talk about it for the people for a few
0:41.8	minutes. So I think that we can talk about it so boringly that people will really get an
0:48.6	appreciation for what this World Series is, which is to say boring. Are you bored because you've
0:54.9	been watching and writing about the Giants for a while now already? Or just because we've seen
1:00.6	these teams in the World Series recently or what? Yeah. I mean, as a person who's actually, I mean,
1:05.9	as a person who's going to watch the games, I'm not bored at all. I think it's, I think it'll be
1:10.3	super exciting. I love watching baseball. And I love postseason baseball. And I think that if, you
1:17.8	know, I mean, anybody who watches can have a great time watching. I think as far as talking about
1:22.9	teams and talking about matchups and all that, these two teams aren't really, they don't, I don't
1:32.0	think, offer a whole lot in the way of meaningful narratives. And I think that that is particularly
1:39.4	a glaring given what an amazing last couple of months we've had with sort of teams on, on both
1:47.4	extremes of highs and lows in these competitive games. And then you have the Tigers and the Giants
1:54.3	who are just sort of two competent teams in the middle of baseball's pack. And they both got here,
2:02.6	but there's, I don't think that there's a whole lot that ties them together. For instance, I was just
2:08.5	reading, I was just reading John Marosi's preview. And I, I don't know if I'll be able to convey
2:15.1	how much I loved this, but he has a paragraph where he says, well, this is the first time they've
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