Effectively Wild Episode 729: How (Not) to Wager on the World Series
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2015
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Ben and Sam banter about a Sandy Alderson story, then compare what PECOTA and the sportsbooks say about the likely winners of the World Series.
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| 0:00.0 | Then we all lie in the corn crane crows |
| 0:09.0 | We wrap the wave by summer clothes |
| 0:18.0 | And I wait to fall |
| 0:27.0 | The high suit's a love |
| 0:30.0 | Good morning and welcome to episode 729 |
| 0:32.0 | It's a perfectly wild the day we podcast from baseball perspective |
| 0:36.0 | Brought to you by the play index at baseballreference.com |
| 0:40.0 | I'm Sam Miller along with Ben Lumberg of Grantland Hypen |
| 0:43.0 | Hello, how are you? All right, so do you remember a couple of days ago |
| 0:48.0 | We talked about how bad a guy's the RA would be before we would take him from the rotation |
| 0:54.0 | If he had a perfect record. Yes, and I had a fairly nonsensical answer of saying that even though I know that I should I wouldn't for mystical reasons that I couldn't quite explain |
| 1:06.0 | Uh-huh, and you were gonna think about it further |
| 1:09.0 | Yeah, I didn't know yeah, and I did not but I was reading baseball Maverick, which is the book that Steve Kettman wrote about Sandy Alderson recently |
| 1:20.0 | And there is actually a an anecdote that I feel like I don't know if it validates my position or if it just sort of shows that me and Sandy Alderson maybe have the same mental blocks or what but back in 2013 |
| 1:36.0 | I want to say |
| 1:37.0 | There was basically the Mets were having trouble with Ike Davis and Ruben Tahada |
| 1:44.0 | And both of them were struggling and both of them were just really doing nothing and the Mets thought long and hard and decided finally that yes they would send them down |
| 1:55.0 | They didn't even have anybody really to replace them with. There were no like great options they were gonna call up |
| 2:00.0 | They just as a as a as a writes Alderson felt so strongly about the need to make the move he was ready to go |
| 2:07.0 | They talked he talked about it with his manager now let's get this over with Collins adamantly agreed everything was good |
| 2:13.0 | They're gonna do it after the game the game starts the game is nearly over there about to lose to the Yankees Alderson goes down to the coach's office |
| 2:21.0 | So that he can be there and have this conversation and while he's down there the Mets staged this miraculous comeback against Mariano Rivera who was 18 for 18 at that point in the season saving games |
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