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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 733: The Response to the Players’ Response to the Papelbon-Harper Brawl

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2015

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Sam banter about the changing structure of front offices, then discuss what former players are saying about the brawl between Jonathan Papelbon and Bryce Harper.

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0:00.0

I'm bringing my hands in the heat of the chase all the colors of the rainbow flood my face.

0:05.0

I lift right off into space. I can see the future. It's a real dark place.

0:10.0

Choke down, choke down, choke down, choke down, choke down, choke down, choke down.

0:20.0

Good morning and welcome to episode 733 of Effectively Wild.

0:24.0

The daily podcast from baseball perspectives brought to you by the play index at baseballreference.com.

0:29.0

I'm Sam Miller along with Ben Lindbergh of Grantland. Hello Ben.

0:34.0

Hello. How are you?

0:36.0

Running out all my pop-ups today.

0:38.0

Well, we're going to talk about that. I figured.

0:40.0

Do you have anything else you want to talk about? First.

0:43.0

Scott Lover of the Boston Herald tweeted that Dave Dombraski had a list of 30 names for general manager.

0:51.0

So we discussed last week that the brewers had 40-something names.

0:55.0

Red sucks only had 30 names.

0:57.0

Not quite if they didn't have a head hunting firm helping them out.

1:02.0

Yeah. So it was last 14 and where you fund the gyms.

1:06.0

And ended up going with the internal candidate.

1:08.0

Unless you consider Frank Renn to be the product of this, I guess.

1:12.0

Yeah. Well, it's getting murky, right? It's getting hard to say what positions are what we typically think of as the positions.

1:19.0

Because Dave Dombraski is the president, but it was also tweeted that my case and the new general manager said the role of general manager will be a little bit different with Dave.

1:30.0

Dave is going to be making the decisions in the end.

1:33.0

So I don't know whether GM is evolving into glorified assistant GM.

1:40.0

And president is just a more impressive sounding higher paying GM job now.

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