Effectively Wild Episode 685: A Couple Complaints About Replays and Appeals
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2015
⏱️ 32 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Ben and Sam banter about home runs and a Dan Jennings quote, then discuss some oddities of baseball’s replay and appeal rules.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Just keep on breaking the rules |
| 0:04.0 | Try to move in, breaking the rules |
| 0:08.0 | Just keep on breaking the rules |
| 0:12.0 | Try to move in, breaking the rules |
| 0:16.0 | Good morning and welcome to episode 65 of Effectively Wild |
| 0:20.0 | The daily podcast from baseball perspectives brought to you by the play index at baseballreference.com |
| 0:25.0 | I'm Sam Miller with Ben Lembert of Grantland. |
| 0:28.0 | Hi. How are you? |
| 0:30.0 | Okay, can you hear the ticking of my kitchen clock? |
| 0:34.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:36.0 | I'm worried that it will remind you of the mortality that you try so hard to forget by talking about baseball. |
| 0:42.0 | It just drives me. |
| 0:44.0 | We're running out of time. |
| 0:46.0 | We have so many podcasts to record. |
| 0:49.0 | I always have a clock in view ticking in fact because I want to... |
| 0:56.0 | Well, I want to know pretty much the second we've gone long enough in this podcast that if we had to stop talking we could. |
| 1:04.0 | Because until we get there every show starts with the feeling that we're not going to have anything to talk about. |
| 1:10.0 | And we're going to run out of time. |
| 1:12.0 | It's a very... |
| 1:14.0 | Not just thing for a clock to do ticking. |
| 1:16.0 | We don't need to hear you every second. |
| 1:20.0 | I know how long a second lasts. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

