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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 2244: Their Name is Mud

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2024

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley follow up on previous banter about the best title for a president of both baseball and business operations, then deliver fresh banter about how Derrek Lee’s 2005 RBI total was a sign of its time, where the Rays will play in 2025 and beyond, the Marlins’ new manager, and a […]

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0:00.0

I'll still be speaking statistically rambling romantically pontificating pedantically banter and bodily, drafting discerningly, giggling, giddling, giddly, equalling, effectively wild.

0:16.0

Hello and welcome to episode 2244 of Effectively Wild, a Fangraphs baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters.

0:23.4

I'm Meg Raleigh of Fangraphs and I am joined by Ben Lindberg of the Ringer.

0:26.5

Ben, how are you?

0:27.7

Well, I'm kicking myself, figuratively speaking,

0:30.0

over our glaring failure to come up with the obvious best title

0:36.0

to describe the new job of Derek Falvey, who we started off the last

0:42.9

episode by noting that Derek Falvey, president of baseball operations for the twins, is now adding

0:48.4

business operations to his purview. So he's going to be president of both baseball and

0:53.9

business operations. And we

0:56.2

proposed a number of potential titles to describe that unique or certainly unusual dual role

1:02.8

that he holds now. And somehow, we didn't land on really the most obvious and probably most

1:09.9

fitting term, which is po-both.

1:12.9

Po-both.

1:13.8

I don't know how to emphasize it exactly.

1:16.0

Po-both.

1:16.7

Yeah, po-both.

1:17.8

We put a call out to everyone for suggestions, and I'm grateful to everyone for writing in,

1:24.4

but as it turns out, just about everyone wrote in to suggest that we heard

1:28.6

from several people, quite a few.

1:31.2

Zander, Tom, Ben, Corey, Ed, number of listeners wrote in to say, Poboth.

1:36.5

Poboth.

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