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Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2020
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Rundown
6:35 Introducing Project G.O.A.T.
28:19 Snake vs. Non-Snake vs. Auction
37:31 Who Went to Driveline?
43:46 ACES Leaders & Laggards
51:02 Who Loses with a Return to a Non-Juiced Baseball?
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and Meryl's episode number 78. |
| 0:18.0 | It's March 17th. |
| 0:19.4 | Derek Van Riper here with Enoseres. St. Patrick's Day spent inside, which is okay. We're going to be all right. |
| 0:29.2 | I think Eno's still there. What just happened, Eno? |
| 0:32.4 | I just moved my mic. That two-file group of papers is looking at me, menacing. |
| 0:39.8 | The two-file group shifted. |
| 0:42.3 | It did. |
| 0:43.1 | That's all that happened. |
| 0:44.5 | I guess it was loud. |
| 0:46.1 | The entire workspace is now in danger. |
| 0:50.2 | But anyway, there's a lot to talk about in this episode. |
| 0:52.8 | We have teased this idea before, the idea of using historical stats to play a fantasy game. |
| 0:59.0 | We're going to talk about the details of that. |
| 1:00.8 | We are going to run a contest for people who listen to this show. |
| 1:03.1 | So we'll talk about that kind of extensively on this episode. |
| 1:07.1 | We had a few really good mailbag questions that were coming in as well. |
| 1:10.6 | So we'll talk about some |
| 1:11.5 | snake versus auction debate type questions. We're going to take a look at a question pertaining |
| 1:17.8 | to the ACEs metric. Lots of good stuff lined up on this episode. I know your situation near |
| 1:25.4 | San Francisco is quite a bit different than mine currently |
| 1:28.5 | in the Upper Midwest and Madison. |
| 1:31.1 | How are things going being kind of stuck at home now with the family? |
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