Effectively Wild Episode 983: The Non-Endless-Lockout Edition

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2016

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Sam banter about an endless lockout and an A.J. Ellis rumor, then answer listener emails about odd MVP votes in Japan, peak Pedro vs. peak Koufax, what they would bid for Charley Kershaw’s baseball career, and mo

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0:00.0	I was riding the fire, I was on my knees, peace signs.
0:07.0	Take it back, I feel no wrong with you.
0:13.0	I had nothing to do, I was so you peace and I was already you.
0:20.0	Peace and I was already you.
0:24.0	Peace and I was already you.
0:28.0	Hello and welcome to episode 983 of Effectively Wild The Daily Podcast from
0:33.4	Baseball Perspectus presented by our Patreon supporters in the play index at
0:38.3	baseballreference.com. I am Ben Lemberg of the Ringer joined as always by
0:42.9	Sam Miller of ESPN. Hello. So as we record this we've just learned that there
0:48.4	will be baseball next year and for the four years after that. So that's good for
0:53.8	people who like baseball. Did you have any any any any stress in your life
0:59.2	over this? No, I mean not at all. I mean even if there had been some sort of
1:05.9	delay we're nowhere near the season and it seemed very unlikely that there
1:10.9	would be actual games canceled. So I don't know I was sort of surprised that
1:16.1	people were kind of pushing the the story that there might be a risk at all.
1:20.2	Like we had heard for so long that it was just going to be smooth sailing and
1:24.8	no one was going to want to jeopardize the prosperity on both sides and then
1:28.5	suddenly reputable reporters were writing stories about how maybe that wasn't
1:34.3	the case and maybe there wasn't going to be a deal and I don't know like I
1:38.1	certainly don't think that someone like Ken Rosenthal or Buster Onlyer
1:42.3	experienced people like that would just sort of allow themselves to be played
1:46.7	by one side or the other trying to take a harder line in the negotiations but
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