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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 760: Andy McCullough Reveals Every Royals Offseason Move

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2015

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Sam talk to Kansas City Star Royals beat writer Andy McCullough about why the Royals won the World Series and what their offseason might look like.

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0:00.0

Leave me alone, I'm over, and everybody's moving on.

0:09.0

I can't see my tomorrow, and yesterday is coming on, so leave me alone.

0:20.0

Good morning and welcome to episode 760 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from

0:27.8

Baseball Prospectus presented by PlayIndex at baseballreference.com and Ben Lindbergh of ESPN joined

0:34.6

by Andy McCullough of the KC Star, our best guest, Hey Andy.

0:39.8

Hey, I was so sad, and also Sam, and are you here?

0:44.8

I think you totally snubbed Sam.

0:46.8

I was so excited about having Andy on again.

0:49.8

Yeah, Sam's here too.

0:52.8

I was at the game on Sunday at City Field, and I went down to the field before first pitch,

0:58.4

and I saw you from afar, and I kind of tried to make eye contact and failed, and I was talking to some

1:05.0

other writers, and I figured you would walk by me or something, and then I turned away for one second,

1:10.0

and when I turned back, you had vanished, and I never saw you again.

1:13.8

I don't know where you went.

1:14.8

Yeah, you were probably doing something reporting.

1:17.8

I like Kaiser Stose, they would be about 50 access pounds.

1:21.8

It was like a postseason thing.

1:24.8

It was like some players shaved their heads or grow their hair extra long, and you just put on a few pounds.

1:31.8

Yeah, sports writers generally just get fat during the postseason, because you're up all night.

1:36.8

A lot of times you're with your friends, so you don't see during most of the year, so you go out.

1:41.8

I'm still trying to lose the 10 pounds I put on last October, and I'm sure I put on five more of this October.

1:49.8

Pretty pumped about how life's gone.

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