Effectively Wild Episode 969: The Literally Hot Hitter

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2016

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Sam banter about mean-spirited nicknames, then answer emails about Kyle Schwarber’s bat, Jon Lester’s long con, the neglected White Sox drought, the Nationals’ 2016 “success,” overcoming bad broadcasters, paying to play in the World Series, and more.

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0:00.0	Take your past and throw it on the fire.
0:07.0	Take your past and throw it on the fire.
0:14.0	Did everything turn out like you thought it would be?
0:21.0	Take your past and throw it on the fire.
0:26.0	Hello and welcome to episode 969 of Effectively Wild,
0:30.0	the daily podcast from baseball perspectives presented by our Patreon supporters
0:34.0	and the play index at baseballreference.com.
0:37.0	I'm Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer joined by Sam Miller of ESPN.
0:41.0	Hello sir.
0:42.0	Hi Ben, how are you doing?
0:43.0	It's okay.
0:44.0	How you feel about this world series so far?
0:46.0	It's fine.
0:47.0	I can't give it more than that, but plenty of time left for some exciting games.
0:51.0	Yeah, I don't know that you really make your money in the first two games.
0:54.0	I don't know that.
0:55.0	I mean, you want to have a couple good games in the series,
1:00.0	but I think that an overwhelming majority of the value is going to come by how many games you have
1:06.0	and not by what sort of games they are.
1:08.0	I mean, clearly if they're all blowouts, that's no good.
1:11.0	Yesterday's game was a total slog.
1:13.0	Not that interesting at all, but it was fine.
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