Effectively Wild Episode 987: The Stove Was So Hot

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2016

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Sam banter about Veeck As in Wreck, Willie Mays, and the term “hot stove league,” then discuss some of the Winter Meetings’ major moves, including big closer contracts and the Chris Sale and Adam Eaton trades.

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0:00.0	What do you want me to do to make it happen now, happen now?
0:07.0	What do you want me to do to make it happen now, happen now?
0:16.0	Hello and welcome to episode 97 of Effectively Wild, the DailyPodcast from
0:20.8	Baseball Perspectus presented by our Patreon supporters in the play index at
0:24.9	BaseballRefrence.com. I am Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer.
0:28.0	joined as always by Sam Miller of ESPN. Hello. I like that you sort of started with
0:32.9	your like your high energy ringer voice and then midway through you sort of
0:37.6	realize where you are and you dropped it off. Oh it's just all effectively wild.
0:42.7	Then 980 something episode to those. Want some banter? Sure yeah. Alright I got
0:49.0	I got a few. Got a bunch. Okay. So I am reading Vecca's in Rec. Oh great.
0:54.0	I don't know. Third of the way through and two things that I wanted to bring up.
0:58.9	One is particularly good. So he's talking about the two players that he had that
1:05.0	sort of found second careers in the game as clowns. Yeah right. So one is Max
1:11.2	Patkin who was like a princess of baseball. Exactly. So Max Patkin was like a
1:15.7	literal clown. Jackie Price was more of a almost a baseball acrobat. Like he
1:20.9	could hit baseballs upside down or swinging from a trapeze or he could throw
1:24.8	two baseballs the same time in different directions and all sorts of crazy
1:29.2	things like that. But what stopped me is this. Okay. So this is from this is about
1:34.7	Jackie Price. I was so impressed with price from the first that I tried to get
1:38.5	Detroit to hire him to perform in the 1945 World Series. Hank Oana who my
1:43.1	soul to the Tigers had got them into the series with his pinch hitting and I was
1:46.4	naive enough to think that entitled me to ask a favor. Instead the Tigers hired
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