Effectively Wild Episode 892: Carson Cistulli on Ranking Baseball’s Broadcasts
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2016
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Ben and Sam talk to FanGraphs writer Carson Cistulli about his recently completed television broadcast rankings for baseball’s local markets.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm broke down, I'm buzzing on another day now, I'll fall to high school, something I'd love for. |
| 0:14.1 | Good morning and welcome to episode 892 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from Baseball |
| 0:19.9 | Perspectus presented by our Patreon supporters and the play index at baseballreference.com. |
| 0:25.5 | I'm Ben Lindbergh, 538, joined by Sam Miller, baseballreference.com. |
| 0:30.5 | We are joined today by a man who needs no introduction, although he usually provides his own |
| 0:36.0 | of considerable length. |
| 0:37.5 | Carson Sastouli, a writer for Fan Gras and the host of Fan Gras audio. |
| 0:42.5 | I didn't know you had that little line. |
| 0:45.5 | Was that spontaneous? |
| 0:47.5 | Was that improvised? |
| 0:48.5 | No, that is actually written on a page before me. |
| 0:51.5 | Written material, well done. |
| 0:53.5 | I just want to note that there's a, I don't know if you and I have talked about this |
| 0:58.0 | Carson, but Carson of course most people know by checking his Wikipedia page is also a |
| 1:04.2 | published poet. |
| 1:05.7 | And he has published alongside Pulitzer Prize winning poets in a journal called Smartish |
| 1:14.8 | Pace, which is founded and edited by my boss at baseballreference.com. |
| 1:20.2 | I love this poem. |
| 1:24.2 | I don't know if I've told you that, but it's called Young People Will Have White Hair. |
| 1:28.2 | It's an absolute delight of a poem. |
| 1:30.0 | My favorite line is The Hurricane Caused a Benefit Concert. |
| 1:34.2 | I say I can enjoy that. |
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