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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 806: How Quickly Chemistry Can Change

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2016

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Sam banter about a Salvador Perez extension and a strike-zone change, then discuss the rapid reversal of the Athletics’ clubhouse and what it might mean for the Nationals.

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0:00.0

All my knees out, biggest please arm.

0:05.0

All my knees out, biggest please arm.

0:13.0

All my knees out, biggest please arm.

0:20.0

Hello and welcome to episode 806 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from baseball

0:29.4

Respect This presented by the Play Index at baseballreference.com and Ben Limberg of 538 joined

0:36.4

by Sam Miller of baseball perspectives.

0:38.9

I, I, so there are days that I question what we do here.

0:44.0

There are days when I don't feel like talking about baseball in the middle of January.

0:49.2

There are days when I think about how this isn't the greatest money making venture of all

0:53.9

time.

0:54.9

Then there are days when I get some validation when it all seems clear that we are onto something

1:04.0

good here.

1:05.0

Yesterday was one of those days because I was followed on Twitter by Smashmouth.

1:10.2

And this is because Smashmouth is on a baseball campaign, right?

1:15.0

Yes.

1:16.0

Smashmouth wants to keep Tim Linsekuhm in San Francisco.

1:19.1

And you're the guy to do it.

1:22.0

So they didn't follow you.

1:23.4

They know the difference.

1:25.4

They didn't just lump us together as two people who do a podcast occasionally about Smashmouth.

1:31.0

They seem to know that I'm the one who's really in their corner, the things that they did

1:35.6

17 years ago.

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