Effectively Wild Episode 2226: The Hug Heard ’Round the World

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2024

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about distracting digital and between-pitch ads and ever-present win probability graphs on playoff broadcasts, the concept of controlling your own destiny, Orlando Arcia hugging Manny Machado, consternation about postseason small samples, Monday’s memorable Mets-Braves doubleheader, Carlos Mendoza’s Edwin Díaz decision, the most compelling postseason storylines, the early exits of […]

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0:00.0	Effect While it's the only show I'm in hosted by Ben Lindbergh and Meghur Rilew, I want to hear about Shohayo Tiny.
0:20.0	For a Mike Trout, we're free. Hello and welcome to episode 2, 226 of Effectively Wild, a fangrafts baseball podcast brought to you by our
0:34.8	Patreon supporters.
0:35.8	I'm Meg Raleigh, fangrafts and I am joined by Ben Lindbergh of the
0:38.4	ringer. Ben, how are you?
0:40.1	I'm overwhelmed by how much we have to discuss today.
0:43.2	Oh boy, so many things.
0:44.4	This is what happens when you devote an entire episode to the White Sox.
0:47.8	And then a few days ago, by.
0:50.2	We've missed three eliminations. We've had multiple front office overhauls.
0:57.0	We've had just so much to discuss and so we will get right to it, although I would like to start by noting that when I was watching
1:07.0	Braves Padres, game two on Wednesday evening, it's the ninth inning.
1:13.6	The braves are facing elimination.
1:16.5	It's super high stakes.
1:18.2	It's a one-run game at that point.
1:20.1	Robert Suarez comes in to try to close things out for San Diego and Robert Suarez I'm watching on
1:25.9	ESPN via YouTube TV and he was flickering he was shimmering it looked like he was in the Take on Me video and was
1:36.2	entering the comics world or like he was streaming on twitch while playing
1:41.0	World of Warcraft or something.
1:43.2	We have talked about the green screen effect before.
1:47.0	And some listeners have written in and rented about this,
1:49.8	but I think it bothered me more in this situation than it has ever bothered me before because
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