Effectively Wild Episode 2254: Gods Do Not Answer Letters

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2024

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about a Tigers tweet about future first-pitch timing and other non-topical PSAs, provide a Secret Santa sign-up reminder, consider baseball authority figures who answer fan mail, discuss the impact that the changing economic landscape of college sports could have on MLB drafting and development, react to Danny Jansen’s deal […]

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0:00.0	I want to know about baseball.
0:03.0	I want to know about every single team.
0:06.5	I want to know about saddlass, some fan drafts, and about, oh, oh, tomm.
0:12.7	I'm a very modern fan reading up on all the analytics.
0:18.8	I want to know about baseball presented by Patreon supporters of Effectively Wild.
0:27.9	Hello and welcome to episode 2254 of Effectively Wild, a Fangraphs baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters.
0:34.8	I'm Ack Raleigh of Fangrass, and I'm joined by Ben Lindberg of the Ringer. Ben, how are you? I'm good, and the first thing I want to do
0:41.0	is a signal boost, a very important PSA that was put out there by the Detroit Tigers PR staff
0:48.3	this week. They tweeted on December 5th at 144 p.m., first pitch for our game on Saturday, May 24th versus Cleveland has been changed to 7.15 p.m.
1:01.3	So just wanted to make sure that no one missed that very important notice that at Detroit Tigers PR put out there.
1:09.3	It's got roughly 6,000 likes right now. So clearly this did get around and hundreds of retweets and hundreds of replies, even in the diminished state that Twitter is in these days. So clearly this got some significant play. But for anyone who missed this very important notice, any
1:28.4	Tigers fans, any Guardians fans who might have tickets for that Saturday, May 24th game,
1:33.7	and they don't know that first pitch was changed to 7.15 p.m. I don't even know what the
1:39.4	original first pitch time was. But just in case you have already planned out your schedule for May 24th,
1:47.1	and you've got those tickets, and you know, you set up maybe some babysitters, whatever it is,
1:51.7	and you just want to get there at exactly the right time that you're not too early, but you don't
1:56.5	miss first pitch. Now you know, 7.15 p.m. This is the first pitch for Tiger's Guardians. Just want to
2:04.5	make sure everyone knows that. X-Tree, X-Tree, read all about it. The replies are very funny.
2:10.6	They're all just like, a little short notice for like, now you tell us, a little last minute. but i guess this is why you have a team
2:21.0	PR account so that you can put it out there and no one gets mad at you several months later
2:26.9	when they show up at the wrong time for first pitch for may 24th give against the guardians but
2:31.8	yeah seems like a an odd time to do that. There were also
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