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Back to SearchEffectively Wild Episode 1548: MLB’s Blown Save
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the results of a survey of sports fans about fake crowd noise on telecasts, then discuss a difficult, frust…
5 years, 9 months ago
Effectively Wild Episode 1547: The Hitless King
Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller banter about MLB’s ongoing labor negotiations, the team-to-team differences in minor-league pay and front-office furloug…
5 years, 9 months ago
Effectively Wild Episode 1546: Best of the Best
Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller banter about viral particles, Mike Trout’s self-identified best at-bat, Carney Lansford’s possible link to Sir Francis D…
5 years, 9 months ago
Effectively Wild Episode 1545: Boogie Mornings
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about a mystifying comment on the back of track star and Oakland A’s designated runner Herb Washington’s 1975 Top…
5 years, 9 months ago
Effectively Wild Episode 1544: The Baseball Butterfly Effect
Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller banter about the reliability of betting on baseball using the Grays Sports Almanac from Back to the Future Part II, then…
5 years, 9 months ago
Effectively Wild Episode 1543: The Best Baseball Spectator Experiences
Ben Lindbergh, Sam Miller, and Meg Rowley banter about MLB’s proposed in-game distancing measures and what degree of difference from the norm would p…
5 years, 9 months ago
Effectively Wild Episode 1542: The Players’ PR Handicap
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the announcement of a second Astros sign-stealing documentary and what they would want out of a sign-steali…
5 years, 9 months ago
Effectively Wild Episode 1541: Taken Out of Context
Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller banter about the difficulty of interpreting the context of old articles about baseball and a man obsessed with smashing …
5 years, 9 months ago
Effectively Wild Episode 1540: Don’t Leave it All on the Field
Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller banter about an anecdote in David Halberstam’s book The Teammates about prescient Cardinals pitcher Harry Brecheen, the …
5 years, 9 months ago
Effectively Wild Episode 1539: It’s Not the Destination, it’s the Journeyman
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about an aggressive umpiring demotion in the KBO, FanGraphs adding KBO stats, and the pleasures of falling asleep…
5 years, 9 months ago