Effectively Wild Episode 804: The Offseason Odds Movers
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2016
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Ben and Sam banter about Mike Trout moonlighting as a weatherman, then discuss which teams have seen their World Series odds fall or rise the most since the beginning of the offseason.
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| 0:00.0 | When I asked the wise man which was the way he said follow your heart and look for yourself |
| 0:13.2 | and come back and tell me what you learned yeah some of us might |
| 0:20.4 | on us right baby. Good morning and welcome to episode 804 effectively wild with a daily podcast |
| 0:26.4 | and baseball perspectives brought to you by the play index at baseball reference.com I'm |
| 0:31.6 | Sam Miller along with Benlin Berga 538 hello Ben. Hi how are you? So good like Mike Trappness |
| 0:38.9 | No Storm. What was the update on that? Mike Trapp went on a weather channel or something? |
| 0:42.9 | He went on the weather channel to talk about the storm with his pal Jim Cantori and he did a few |
| 0:49.6 | minute spot just giving an update from Millville. Wait so did he have any meteorological |
| 0:56.2 | contribution or was he just describing what he saw? Yeah he was really just describing |
| 1:00.4 | conditions he wasn't he wasn't reading the radar or anything. Did he describe conditions using |
| 1:08.0 | meteorological jargon? I wouldn't say he did no he really just brought enthusiasm to it he was |
| 1:16.0 | very enthusiastic he said I think my my favorite thing that he said was obviously up all night |
| 1:22.7 | up every hour checking the measurements the obviously made that obviously up all night every hour |
| 1:28.5 | checking the measurements who wouldn't be and obviously I don't know if we've mentioned it I don't |
| 1:33.5 | know if this is one of the mic trout ticks but I believe that obviously is a mic trout tick. |
| 1:38.6 | Right yeah I think we've talked about that maybe with Pedro Morra but yeah well he he meant it |
| 1:45.1 | this time he was up all night Cantori asked him about the power whether power was down and |
| 1:50.9 | trout had a friend from the power department who was just at his house telling him how the |
| 1:57.0 | power department was handling the storm so I like to imagine he just has this weather bunker |
| 2:03.5 | set up with experts from from every field at his house while he's up all night every hour checking |
| 2:10.7 | the measurements there's very few things in weather that are easier to measure than snow like |
| 2:15.4 | you don't really need any fancy equipment right yeah right yeah a rule of a rift a drift is like |
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