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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 999: The One Before 1000

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2016

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

In their penultimate show as co-hosts, Ben and Sam answer listener emails about baseball amnesia, iconic photos, Mike Trout hitting lefty, designing ballparks, and more before reminiscing about how they almost didn’t do email episodes.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Happy New Year, no more to say Happy New Year, all right.

0:12.0

Hello and welcome to episode 999 of Effectively Wild, the daily podcast from baseball

0:17.7

perspective presented by our Patreon supporters and the play index at baseballreference.com.

0:23.3

I am Ben the Berk of the Ringer joined by Sam Miller of ESPN. Hello.

0:28.5

Hey, how are you? All right. All right. Yeah. Thanks to everyone for all the nice words.

0:34.2

I don't know why I'm saying this. Most of the words we're about you, but a lot of nice words about

0:39.9

both of us and a lot of nice words about Jeff. Probably you've finished in third place tonight.

0:47.1

I think that is how I would want it to be because I'm the only part that's not changing.

0:52.8

So thanks to everyone and we are going to do one more email show here in which we will answer

0:58.5

every unanswered email question we have ever received because this is our last chance.

1:03.5

No, that's not true, but we will look at to a bunch. Anything else you want to do?

1:07.6

Yeah, I wanted to mention the most... Well, Meg Rally, I was bothering her about Deon Sanders

1:16.2

the last episode and she bless her heart went into a Deon Sanders rabbit hole and came out with

1:26.1

what I believe is maybe the greatest sentence ever written in an email. And so Meg writes

1:31.3

further research has revealed that Deon Sanders released two rap albums. The first primetime

1:38.4

peaked at 70 on the hip hop charts in 1994. Here comes the best sentence ever written. You ready?

1:44.2

Yeah. All right, remind me Ben, what was the name of the album?

1:47.2

Primetime. Where did it peak? 70. What year? 94. I good. Just wanted to make sure you were paying

1:52.8

an engine. All right, here comes the sentence. Here's the sentence. The second was all remixes of his

1:57.9

original album and it started higher and wasn't released until 2005.

2:08.5

Did it chart? It did not chart. That is for an extent. It did not chart. He retired from the game in

2:16.2

2006. Well, at least he put it out there unlike Matt Kemp. Yeah, that's who you did find that

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