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Back to SearchEffectively Wild Episode 2036: The Shohei Ohtani Trading Game
In a 21-guest salute to Shohei Ohtani trade hypotheticals, Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley are joined by a multitude of friends for a role-playing exer…
2 years, 7 months ago
Effectively Wild Episode 2035: Hot Streaks and Cold Spells
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Meg’s strategies for coping with record heat in Phoenix, revisit an earlier conversation about whether the…
2 years, 7 months ago
Effectively Wild Episode 2034: Strand Rate
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Christian Encarnacion-Strand and whether record compound names deserve an asterisk, the appeal of a Legend…
2 years, 7 months ago
Effectively Wild Episode 2033: Need-to-Know Bases
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the 2024 regular-season schedule, the baseball relevance of a study about humans’ hunger for useless infor…
2 years, 7 months ago
Effectively Wild Episode 2032: League of Legends
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Meg’s spectator experience at the All-Star Game, whether it’s good or bad that the MVP was a player as obs…
2 years, 7 months ago
Effectively Wild Episode 2031: No Peeking in the Press Box
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Meg’s experiences at the Futures Game, the draft, and the Home Run Derby, Derby highlights, the Derby on T…
2 years, 7 months ago
Effectively Wild Episode 2030: Deadline Dilemmas and Needs
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Meg’s All-Star Week plans, play “Would you rather?” with the White Sox and Cardinals, the Padres and Mets,…
2 years, 7 months ago
Effectively Wild Episode 2029: Fallen Los Angeles
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about whether Mike Trout‘s injury makes the Angels more likely to trade birthday boy Shohei Ohtani, the Dodgers’…
2 years, 7 months ago
Effectively Wild Episode 2028: Baseball Band
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about All-Star-roster minimums and maximums, what the Aroldis Chapman trade tells us about the how teams value p…
2 years, 7 months ago
Effectively Wild Episode 2027: The First Half of the Season, Summed Up
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley attempt to create a hierarchy of highlights, then (21:36) mark the midpoint of the regular season by reviewing the most…
2 years, 8 months ago