Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchEffectively Wild Episode 2006: Not My Cup of D
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Akil Baddoo taking a baseball to the beans, broadcasters describing groin shots, and players deciding whet…
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Effectively Wild Episode 2005: Spring Has Sproing
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Meg’s recovery from COVID and the belated release of the CBA, predict how well White Sox cast-off Jake Die…
3 years ago
Effectively Wild Episode 2004: House of Cards
Ben Lindbergh talks to Will Leitch about the Cardinals’ horrendous start, their baffling decision to bar big free-agent addition Willson Contreras f…
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Effectively Wild Episode 2003: Return of the Mack
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about more examples of players whose names describe what they do (like Colin Holderman), the return of Justin Ve…
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Effectively Wild Episode 2002: East Coast MLBias
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about players being paid for on-field, in-game interviews, pitcher injuries and pitcher call-ups, how low Oaklan…
3 years ago
Effectively Wild Episode 2001: Open the Podcast Bay Doors, HAL
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the podcast’s naming conventions, the EW reverse jinx boosting Byron Buxton, the stress of observing Jacob…
3 years ago
Effectively Wild Episode 2000: We Thought of More Things We Like About Baseball
In the fourth incarnation of a time-honored tradition that recurs every 500-ish episodes, Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley are joined by former co-hosts…
3 years, 1 month ago
Effectively Wild Episode 1999: Meet a Maggi Leaguer
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Drew Maggi’s major league debut and whether there should be a way for other journeyman minor leaguers to m…
3 years, 1 month ago
Effectively Wild Episode 1998: Congrats on the Paternity Leave
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about a good time to be a Pirates fan, whether the red-hot Rays or the ice-cold A’s will regress more toward the…
3 years, 1 month ago
Effectively Wild Episode 1997: This Time it Pitch Counts
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the podcast’s semi-official new nickname for Yandy Díaz, what Mookie Betts playing shortstop says about th…
3 years, 1 month ago