Effectively Wild Episode 767: The Non-Cookie-Cutter Craig Kimbrel Reaction
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2015
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Ben and Sam discuss the Craig Kimbrel trade and the way to talk about closers in 2015.
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| 0:00.0 | Sit on my ass and watch the game like everybody else |
| 0:08.9 | And wait it's on the line, that's when they take me down from the shelf |
| 0:17.9 | You think this kind of pressure is easier just kidding yourself |
| 0:23.8 | Good morning and welcome to episode 767 |
| 0:26.4 | Effectively wild daily podcast from baseball perspectives brought to my play index baseball reference dot com |
| 0:32.9 | I'm Sam Miller along with Ben Lindbergh of the SPN. Hi Ben. How are you? All right good. How was your weekend? |
| 0:41.6 | Just wrote some book |
| 0:44.3 | Sure if I like book writing I would like it if it were all that like it would I think it'd be nice to be |
| 0:50.5 | Completely submerged in one writing project for a long time |
| 0:54.3 | But of course, that's not how it is you slept feed yourself and right right other things for other people and reply to emails and do a podcast and |
| 1:01.8 | Then it sucks. Yeah, I just want a more constant supply of compliments, I think |
| 1:09.1 | Yeah, it's good. No, I know and when I find the right something and then have no one see it for months |
| 1:15.2 | I want I want feedback I'm used to writing something and then everyone sees it the next day |
| 1:20.9 | Yeah, the annual is very can be very dissatisfying for me for the same reason not not so much the weight, but just that |
| 1:29.2 | People don't like read a book and then immediately ping you |
| 1:33.9 | With like praise for it that everybody can see yeah, and so you're really |
| 1:39.1 | You don't get the same kind of feedback and a lot of it is limited to |
| 1:42.4 | Amazon comments which get dominated by the people who respond the fastest which is to say the people who |
| 1:48.6 | Aren't really reading it and the people who give you one star because the |
| 1:54.0 | Shipping was slow exactly. Yeah, the shipping was slow |
| 1:58.8 | Speaking of our Amazon page our book has a cover on there now |
| 2:03.1 | People can go look at that big news. Yep. I |
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