#effectively wild

[sylviii]

baseball journalist in his late thirties reads the poob post aloud

[muntzerism-diggerism]

This baseball podcast i listen to has a different fanmade intro song for every episode and like a third of them are baseball statistic themed raps

[fossore]

I tuned back into a podcast I haven’t listened to for a couple hundred episodes and there’s a woman now!

And I reallly like her!

(It’s mostly surprising because it was two dudes blathering about baseball and now it’s one of the old dudes, a new dude, and a woman blathering about baseball)

[furryalligator]

Source: http://twitter.com/fangraphs/status/1102042436157784066

Effectively Wild Episode 1342: Take Me Out With the Crowdfunding https://t.co/rwj3ost9u7

— FanGraphs Baseball (@fangraphs) March 3, 2019

Link to Emily’s Athletic archive Link to More Than Baseball’s website Link to Forbes article about More Than Baseball

[timaldred]

"No matter what you think of who Josh Hader was or what he said six or seven years ago, that version of Josh Hader is of far lesser significance than who he is now as an adult human. When you are 16, 17 or 18 years old you generally have not advanced to the point where, psychologically, you can fully understand the extent to which your words can actually hurt other people. And you are more likely to say things - not necessarily just for the shock value of them, but maybe just because 'oh, this is a taboo word and I'm free to use it and if somebody else minds then to hell with them, it doesn't really matter, just grow a thicker skin' - because you just haven't gained the worldly experience to have interacted with other communities, certainly other communities that are very different from your own, and known what those people have gone through."

Jeff Sullivan, blogger. [Effectively Wild #1245.]

[rapgametycobb]

Sam Miller on the point of baseball (from Effectively Wild “Episode 551: Debating Postseason Unpredictability and Decisive Game Fours”)

[rapgametycobb]

The point of [baseball] is not to decide who is the best team. The illusion that that is what we’re doing has long been a powerful draw to sports. But it is ultimately not the point. There is just no scenario where the universe will care or remember who the best team was... It only matters inasmuch as we create this illusion that it matters. If you lose even the illusion then it becomes problematic… [T]he point is to entertain people and make them forget that we are all dying in front of each other, that this is just this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis, that we are going to lose everybody we know, we are going to lose everything we have.

Sam Miller (from Effectively Wild “Episode 551: Debating Postseason Unpredictability and Decisive Game Fours”)

[tumblbrag]

It's a very obnoxious thing for a clock to do - ticking. We don't need to hear you every second. I know how long a second lasts.

Ben Lindbergh, Effectively Wild Episode 685