Effectively Wild Episode 971: Drought Talk

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2016

⏱️ 41 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Ben and Sam banter about Aroldis Chapman and answer emails about title droughts, the Cubs and consecutive pennants, scoreless streaks, World Series strategy, the recent rarity of Game Sevens, playoff ads, and more.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	ge
0:30.0	Hello and welcome to episode 971 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from Baseball Perspectus,
0:41.1	presented by our supporters on Patreon and the Playindex at baseballreference.com.
0:45.9	I am Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer, joined by a Sam Miller of ESPN.
0:49.7	Hello.
0:50.7	Hey.
0:51.7	How are you?
0:52.7	Alright.
0:53.7	So we are recording this in the hours before game 7.
0:55.6	So we're not going to talk about game 7.
0:57.8	We're going to steer away from anything that won't be relevant after game 7.
1:01.8	When many of you will be hearing this, do you want to say anything about game 6?
1:05.7	No.
1:06.7	I think I'm fine.
1:10.2	Okay.
1:11.2	Well, we talked the other day, I don't know whether it was on this podcast or on the
1:16.5	simulcast about how Frank Kona seemed to be using Andrew Miller in a game where it wasn't
1:22.6	totally necessary.
1:23.6	And then we also, I think by the way, we also did have the same conversation with Dave
1:28.6	Robertson, Ken Lee Jansen in the LCS where he left him in for like a...
1:35.6	Yeah, there was a 6-0 lead after he came in and the Dodger scored a couple runs.
1:40.7	Yeah.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.