Effectively Wild Episode 957: The Man Who Makes Pitch (Almost!) Perfect

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2016

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Sam talk to Mike Fisher, the baseball coordinator of Moneyball and the new Fox series Pitch, about how he makes baseball look realistic on screen (and what he might have missed).

Transcript

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0:00.0	All the small things, true care, truth brings, I'll take one lift, you're right, best
0:12.3	trip.
0:13.3	Always, I know you'll be at my show, watching, waiting, commiserating.
0:25.9	Hello and welcome to episode 957 of Effectively Wildly Daily Podcasts from Baseball Perspectives,
0:32.0	presented by our Patreon supporters and the play index at baseballreference.com.
0:36.1	I am Dan Lindbergh of the Ringer.
0:38.1	Joined.
0:39.1	This is the last time I guess I'll get to say this by Sam Miller of Baseball Perspectives.
0:43.1	Hello Sam.
0:44.1	Hello.
0:45.1	Do you normally say that I'm a baseball perspective?
0:47.2	Yes, you do.
0:48.2	Okay, well, yes.
0:49.2	Hello.
0:50.2	That part will change.
0:51.2	We are talking to a guest today.
0:53.4	Many of you saw the premiere of pitch last night on Fox, and we're going to talk about
0:58.5	that, but we're going to get into a slightly larger discussion about the way that baseball
1:03.1	is portrayed on screen many times over the years that we've been doing the show.
1:07.4	We've talked about some shoddy depiction of baseball in media of some sort, and we've
1:13.8	said just call us.
1:15.3	Why don't people ask us to just check over the baseball scenes before they put them out
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