Effectively Wild Episode 935: A Round Podcast with a Round Bat
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2016
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Ben and Sam banter about a hard-to-believe baseball ad, then answer listener emails about the NL Central, GM metadata, Aaron Sanchez, deceptive debuts and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Yes I remember whatever makes you feel that way |
| 0:04.0 | Don't you worry, because I'm gonna stay |
| 0:08.0 | Try my mind |
| 0:13.0 | Take it from the left, you can do no quick no |
| 0:19.0 | Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah |
| 0:23.0 | The wind is the eye |
| 0:28.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 935 |
| 0:32.0 | Effectively wild, the daily podcast from baseball perspective |
| 0:35.0 | Presented by our Patreon supporters and the play index at baseballreference.com |
| 0:40.0 | I've been member of the ringer joined by Sam Miller of baseball perspective |
| 0:44.0 | Hello, yo, so a couple days ago you teased a bit of banter that I've been anticipating |
| 0:50.0 | Ever since as I'm sure many listeners have |
| 0:54.0 | So you have an ad to share with us I do and so of course people know that there are what they're I guess there are three |
| 1:01.0 | Elements of many baseball ads that we like to talk about one is extremely poor representation of the sport itself |
| 1:08.0 | That is not at play here another is forced a connection to the sport itself |
| 1:13.0 | The most classic example being hit a home run with you know windex glass cleaner or whatever |
| 1:20.0 | That's here in this ad, but it's not what's significant about it the third though is the trope in radio ads of having ads that could appeal to no more than eight people |
| 1:30.0 | In the entire world and the classic is the plumbers and pipe fitters union ads that were a briefly a meme in which didn't we interview a plumbers slash pipe fitter |
| 1:41.0 | We got a detailed email from I think a listener who was one and he explained why that works or how that works which I don't remember all the details of right now but it was a very informative answer |
| 1:55.0 | I guess there's also one final one that I don't know if we've ever talked about on the air but I think you wrote about once which is giveaways basically like a sweepstakes giveaways tied to the baseball game |
| 2:08.0 | Didn't you write about that I don't know I thought you wrote something about like something about like various pop a sling promotions or something like that |
| 2:15.0 | Oh well I did write about pop a sling with rob our third at five thirty eight |
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