Effectively Wild Episode 2251: The Playoff Payoff

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2024

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about a Nolan Arenado rumor, then (5:15) answer listener emails about fandoms that are overrepresented in baseball media, Formula 1-style “pay players” in MLB, whether players should be paid overtime for the postseason, whether MLB will ever classify foreign leagues as “major,” a Disney Channel baseball scene, fan-elected baseball […]

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0:00.0	A baseball podcast,
0:04.3	analytics and stats with Ben and Meg from Fangraves.
0:12.2	Effectively wine.
0:17.4	Effective in life.
0:29.6	Effective in life. Hello and welcome to Hello and welcome to episode 2251 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from FanGraphs presented by our Patreon supporters.
0:38.8	I am Ben Lindberg of the Ringer, joined by Meg Rally of FanGraphs.
0:42.6	Hello, Meg.
0:43.6	Hello.
0:44.7	Usually, more time has elapsed between when we say goodbye and when we say hello again,
0:49.7	but not this time because we've got a compressed recording schedule this week.
0:54.6	So we have essentially picked up where we left off.
0:58.0	Yeah.
0:58.6	Went and got some water.
1:00.0	And that's about all that happens between episode 2250 and episode 2251.
1:05.2	I ate an entire plate of pasta actually.
1:07.8	Oh, wow.
1:08.5	Okay.
1:08.9	Yeah.
1:09.2	You carboloaded for this one because we need it because we're doing back-to-back pods because how often does that happen? So usually a day or two, maybe more, elapses between episodes. We learn things. News occurs. We have new banter to talk about. Now nothing at all has happened except that you just ate a plate of pasta.
1:30.8	And thus there's no new banter.
1:33.9	And thus we will proceed straight to emails, I suppose.
1:38.0	So this is sort of a time dilation effect.
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