Effectively Wild Episode 879: Bartolo, Bryce, and Goodbye Good Wife
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2016
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Ben and Sam discuss Bartolo Colon’s first career home run, the Cubs’ continued success and willingness to walk Bryce Harper, and The Good Wife’s series finale.
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| 0:00.0 | Embrace the scene of genius |
| 0:06.0 | Watching Reveal the Will |
| 0:10.0 | I don't need your summary, act summary, act |
| 0:16.0 | It's given to the narrative, hey |
| 0:20.0 | What's the beginning? I will set you back, set you back, set you back, set you |
| 0:32.0 | Oh, I will set you back, set you back, set you back, set you |
| 0:38.0 | Good morning and welcome to episode 879 of Effectively Wild |
| 0:42.0 | with the Daily Podcast from baseball perspective brought to you by |
| 0:46.0 | Index of baseball reference and our Patreon supporters |
| 0:50.0 | I'm Sam Miller along with Ben Lindbergh of 538, how are you? |
| 0:54.0 | All right, all right, so straight to the baseball |
| 0:58.0 | Well that's what that was a reference to that, that was a reference to the fact that you were going to want to talk about good wife |
| 1:04.0 | Yeah, I feel like I've been slapped by a lawyer in a dimly lit hallway |
| 1:08.0 | But we could talk about it at the end of the episode |
| 1:10.0 | So that people who are not interested in our good wife, don't have to hear it |
| 1:14.0 | This the end of the episode |
| 1:16.0 | We could, I know you'd like to |
| 1:18.0 | All right, let's talk about some baseball and then we'll get to good wife at the end |
| 1:22.0 | All right, why don't you start? Okay, well tell me what your topic is |
| 1:24.0 | Probably if we don't, we might fill the room with banter in which case my topic will move to tomorrow |
| 1:30.0 | But if we can't banter our way through this, it will be might trout trade proposals |
| 1:36.0 | Okay, well we should talk a little bit about Bartolo and Bryce perhaps |
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