Effectively Wild Episode 801: The Big-Contract Catch-Up
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2016
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Ben and Sam banter about the resolution to a legal case they discussed last week, then discuss the Ian Kennedy, Chris Davis, and Justin Upton signings.
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| 0:00.0 | I got news for you No news for you No news no a 교oth, noshot, no feminists |
| 0:10.1 | I got news for you No doubts for you I got news for you |
| 0:13.9 | I got news for you No doubts for you No doubt no doubt |
| 0:20.3 | I got news for you No doubts for you Yea's slapped i couldn't have it |
| 0:29.3 | Hello and welcome to episode 801 of Effectively Wild. The Daily Podcast from |
| 0:36.4 | baseball perspective presented by the play index at baseballreference.com. I am |
| 0:41.3 | Ben Lemberg of 538 joined by Sandin Miller of baseball perspective. Hello! Hello! |
| 0:46.9 | 801 episodes, that's a lot. I wonder at what point we are actively turning off |
| 0:52.6 | potential new listeners who don't want to listen to it 800 episode backlog. I would |
| 0:57.5 | guess like 210. Okay. Yeah, it's not as if you need to catch up. Look, I mean the |
| 1:04.3 | thing about it is I think most people when they go, oh well there's a baseball |
| 1:08.8 | podcast, they assume we're gonna talk about the news of the day and that like |
| 1:13.4 | the narrative of the podcast is not a particularly key element. Right. And so I |
| 1:19.3 | would imagine that the people who get turned off by our podcast are turned off. |
| 1:23.9 | It's just by the content. Not by feeling like they've... Right. Like the superficial turn off, |
| 1:31.0 | it's a deep-seated turn off. Yeah, exactly. I mean, look, if someone |
| 1:36.5 | told me it's not like I wouldn't listen to like, you know, well, any baseball. I mean, I just |
| 1:44.6 | wouldn't expect a baseball podcast to be where you would go for like long established |
| 1:50.6 | smouth mash, smash, smash, smash, smash, smash mouth inside jokes. Like I would just think |
| 1:55.3 | they were gonna like, oh, they're gonna talk about Ian Kennedy today. I'm curious about that. |
| 2:01.1 | The thing is I think we will talk about Ian Kennedy today. We're subverting our expectations |
| 2:07.9 | of regular listeners and meeting expectations of non-regular listeners. Anything you want to |
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