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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 2225: The White Sox Unfun-Fact-Off

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2024

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

In (dis)honor of the 2024 White Sox displacing the 1962 Mets atop the modern-era single-season losses leaderboard, Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley, FanGraphs’ Ben Clemens, and Yahoo Sports’s Jordan Shusterman conduct a draft of facts and stats about this record-setting Sox season, scored by Sox Machine White Sox reporter James Fegan, who also describes covering the […]

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0:00.0

Upstance in entry, they will be allowed to me.

0:04.7

That's why I'm not

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for special guests, free series switching in pure poetry.

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That's how I'm baseball. poetry as well as well as many as well.

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Effectively Wild, Effectively Wild Baseball

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podcast.

0:30.0

Hello and welcome to episode 2225 of Effectively Wild a Baseball

0:36.6

podcast from fangrass presented by our Patreon supporters.

0:40.1

I am Ben Lindbergh of the ringer joined by megg rally of fangrass hello megg it's all happening

0:46.9

there's a lot going on we are recording on Monday afternoon there's an L wild card

0:52.4

madness in progress the giants have fired

0:55.3

Far Han's ID and replaced him with Buster Posey as their president of baseball

1:00.0

operations he will henceforth be known as Buster Po Bo-boe on this podcast

1:04.1

presumably but we're not going to talk about any of that right now and we're not

1:08.1

going to talk about the playoffs because we're going to have our fill of that over the

1:11.5

next month or so this is our last opportunity for a

1:14.4

while to talk about something other than post-season baseball and for our topic we have

1:19.3

chosen the furthest thing from post-season baseball, the Chicago White Sox. We've had this in mind for a while. I think this was initially

1:27.5

proposed by Patreon supporter listener Andrew M, who back at the end of August beginning of September said I feel like once the season is done we need a

1:36.2

2024 white socks fun fact draft on the pot and I've been thinking about it ever since

1:42.0

Andrew also said that 2024 White Sox fun facts are the new

1:45.7

peak PEDs bonds fun facts. There are so many fun ways to parse just how bad they are, exclamation point.

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