Effectively Wild Episode 2209: The Catcher Bug Catcher

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2024

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Derek Jeter‘s (and Aaron Judge’s) championship-or-bust rhetoric, Alex Rodriguez’s date night, Judge’s home-run robberies, Judge’s offensive prowess compared to Babe Ruth and Barry Bonds, how clutchness (or the lack thereof) could affect the AL MVP race, Juan Soto’s defense, how the trajectory of Seattle’s season may have sealed […]

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0:00.0	Did Richard Loved Lady ever strike a Taylor T. God and who had more war Jason Kendall or Russell Martin?
0:06.0	What if Shohio Tani's dog was also a good lawyer?
0:08.5	What would you do if Mike Trapp just showed up in your foyer?
0:11.5	Or is it for ye? out on effectively wild find out
0:16.0	on effectively while find out on effectively while
0:21.0	today hello and welcome to episode 2209 of Effectively Wild a
0:27.6	Baseball podcast from Van Grafs presented by our Patreon supporters.
0:31.4	I am Ben Lindbergh of Fancrofts.
0:35.0	Hello, Meg.
0:36.0	Hello.
0:37.0	So this past weekend, Jose Molina and other Yankees legends
0:42.0	returned to Yankee Stadium for Old Timers Day for the
0:46.2	15th anniversary celebration of the 2009 World Series championship team, the last Yankees team to win the championship. And Derek Jeter was one of the
0:56.5	non-Molina legends in attendance. And Derek Jeter said the sort of thing that Derek Jeter
1:02.0	has often said over the course of his career,
1:04.8	which is, and I quote,
1:06.4	it doesn't matter what you do during 162 game schedule.
1:10.1	It all boils down to the world series,
1:12.4	win a championship or it's a failure.
1:15.6	And I gotta say, I've been hearing this refrain my whole life, as a New Yorker, as someone who
1:20.4	grew up rooting for the Yankees during the Steinbrenner era when this line was really popularized.
1:26.0	My time as a Yankees fan essentially overlapped with Derek Teeter's career with the Yankees.
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