Effectively Wild Episode 2275: Stop the Stop Signs

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2025

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Meg’s memories of Ichiro and his sensational MLB debut, Ippei Mizuhara’s letter about his work with Shohei Ohtani, Roki Sasaki’s dog, the misleading name of “Sluggball,” Jurickson Profar and the prospect of a Braves rebound, which players will get “shorter” thanks to the challenge system, two new rules […]

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0:00.0	Let's play ball.
0:02.2	It's effectively wild.
0:05.2	It's effectively wild.
0:08.1	It's effectively wild.
0:09.8	Hello and welcome to episode 2275 of Effectively Wild
0:18.8	Baseball podcast from Fangraphs presented by our Patreon supporters.
0:23.1	I'm Ben Lindberg of the Ringer, joined by Meg Rally of FanGraphs. Hello, Meg.
0:27.8	Hello.
0:29.0	I meant to ask you last time to share your Ichero memories.
0:33.6	We didn't really get to talk about that in depth. We devoted the entire episode to the Hall of Fame. We talked a bit about Itro, but didn't really get a personal reflection from you. And it's meaningful when a star from your formative years as a fan or your impressionable years as a fan or your peak years as a fan gets the nod. So how do you feel about
0:56.6	Yitro getting in and what do you remember about Yichro coming over and becoming the star in MLB that he was?
1:04.8	I love Ichero. Controversial take. It was so interesting because, and I'm going to admittedly sort of blur some of these
1:18.3	memories in terms of their timing, but I strongly recall his rookie year.
1:24.5	I don't know if people know this, but like 2001 was sort of a good year to be a
1:28.1	marriage fan. Except for the very end of it. Yes, I remember that part very well. I was going to say.
1:35.9	Locked it out. Doesn't exist. What are you talking about? What are you even talking about? Okay.
1:40.2	Yes. Like, what do you mean? My primary Ichero memory from 2001 is my team beating yours probably.
1:47.2	But soon suffering its own extremely painful for me downfall.
1:51.2	Yeah, things are really rough for the Yankees fans among us.
1:53.9	No.
1:54.0	But I mention that because it's hard to sort of disentangle him from that year. I don't have, I think I've
2:04.5	maybe mentioned this on the show before. I don't have any memories of the Mariners losing in the
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