Effectively Wild Episode 704: Mysteries from the Front Office

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Baseball, Sports

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2015

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Ben and Sam banter about former Pirates executive Merrill Hess and then discuss stories about former Dodgers GM Ned Colletti from Molly Knight’s new book.

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0:00.0	Music
0:13.0	Good morning and welcome to episode 704 of Effectively Wild, the daily podcast from baseball
0:17.9	perspective brought to you by the play index at baseballreference.com. I'm Sam Miller with
0:22.6	Ben Lindberg of grantland.com. How are you?
0:26.2	All right.
0:27.2	We are proud to be.
0:33.5	Great thing. How are you?
0:36.0	Okay. I'm waiting for news from Pluto.
0:39.2	Okay. Don't know what that means. Anything else going on?
0:43.5	Get some cool pictures of Pluto today.
0:45.6	Can we talk about this email that Mark sent us about Meryl Hess?
0:49.5	Sure.
0:50.5	It's not an email show.
0:51.9	No.
0:52.9	Did this lead you anywhere? Did you follow up on it? I did, but I'm curious if you did.
0:55.9	I have not had time yet. I planned it.
0:57.9	It's interesting.
0:58.9	Mark, do you know the story of Meryl Hess?
1:03.7	While thinking about the Pirates front office this morning, I was wondering how many people
1:06.6	it took to run the club back in the 70s when I was a kid and the pirates were great.
1:10.7	I noticed that their front office staff included one Meryl Hess as assistant scouting director.
1:15.5	I googled his name and came up with a hit at IMDB since he is walking Phoenix's character
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