Effectively Wild Episode 2468: The Baseball Barometer

About this episode

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley discuss various baseball topics including player interactions, team struggles, and sports streaming regulations.

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Scott Boras talking turkey, a heartwarming player-fan interaction, two more unintentional challenges, the depths of the Mets’ predicament after their 11-game losing streak, whether Munetaka Murakami can keep up his hot, extreme start, whether hitters should stop swinging against Mason Miller , whether government regulation can improve sports streaming, and the nature of on-base streaks, then Stat Blast (1:32:34) about NL and AL Central standings oddities, the longest periods out of first place, and scoring coming all in one inning, plus (1:44:34) several follow-ups and bonus blasts. Audio intro : Dave Armstrong and Mike Murray, “ Effectively Wild Theme ” Audio outro : Austin Klewan, “ Effectively Wild Theme ” Link to Boras quote Link to Geese controversy Link to brother-sister embrace Link to Mangum comments Link to Lorenzen clip Link to Lorenzen quote Link to accidental challenge story Link to Mets streak story Link to MLB.com on the Mets Link to Perry on the Mets Link to Sheehan on the Mets Link to Szymborski on slow starters Link to Ben on high-turnover teams Link to team run differentials Link…

People in this episode

Hosts: Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Topics covered

• Scott Boras
• player-fan interaction
• Mets losing streak
• Munetaka Murakami
• Mason Miller
• sports streaming
• on-base streaks

Keywords

• Scott Boras
• Mets
• Munetaka Murakami
• Mason Miller
• on-base streaks
• sports streaming
• baseball

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Mets, MLB.com

Books & works: Kokomo

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