Effectively Wild Episode 981: The New-GM Job Check

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2016

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Sam banter about a baseball TV trope and a Roger Angell passage, then discuss how they would have asked and answered interview questions for the Twins and Diamondbacks GM jobs and what they thought of the Mariners’ and Diamondbacks’ Jean Segura-Taijuan Walker trade and the Twins’ Jason Castro signing.

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0:00.0	We need to tell the truth.
0:03.1	Close up until my heart is faded.
0:07.0	Want to give you the job.
0:10.1	A chance of all the time.
0:13.4	Say my place at nine.
0:18.0	Good morning and welcome to episode 981 of Effectively Wild,
0:22.2	Daily Podcasts from baseball perspectives.
0:24.4	Brought to you by the plain dex at baseballreference.com
0:27.8	and our Patreon supporters.
0:29.2	I'm Sam Miller of ESPN, along with Ben Lindbergh of The Ringer.
0:32.8	Hello Ben.
0:33.8	Hello. How are you doing?
0:34.8	Doing okay?
0:35.8	Alright, you got anything to talk about?
0:37.3	Nah, there's something I want to talk about,
0:39.4	but I think it makes more sense for a listener email show.
0:42.1	So I'll wait for next time.
0:43.7	Alright, I guess I have two things.
0:46.0	One is real quick, and this is, we'll be relevant to very few people.
0:50.0	But remember we talked about the Jose Fernandez 5-hour energy commercial?
0:54.0	Yes.
0:54.8	We spent a disproportionate amount of time talking about the amount of dust,
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