Show notes
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley issue a sexiness-comment correction and banter about Jazz Chisholm Jr.’s MLB: The Show cover-model credentials, the 2023 Opening Day schedule, more ways in which baseball is and isn’t different from other sports (14:35), Chad Green’s convoluted contract (31:35), and their appreciation of Zack Greinke. Then (43:49) Ben chats with former All-Star Shawn Green about his cameo in 2003 sci-fi film The Core and his dominant stats against fellow The Core cameo-maker Mike Hampton, followed by a conversation (56:55) between Ben and The Athletic features writer Jayson Jenks about Jenks’s three oral histories of Greinke’s career, the best Greinke stories, Greinke’s singular skills, personality, and reputation, Greinke’s future in the game, and more. Finally, Ben and Meg conclude with a Past Blast from 1963 (1:36:31), plus a few follow-ups.Audio intro: Sleater-Kinney, “Male Model”Audio interstitial: Fruit Bats, “My Unusual Friend”Audio outro: TUNS, “Keeping Options Open”Link to Correa tweetLink to fake Jazz tweetLink to Chisholm cover revealLink to cover athlete analysisLink to Jazz on his cover spotLink to Jazz on last year’s gameLink to 2023 schedule announcementLink to fraternization rule videoLink to Ben on baseball failureLink to baseball exceptionalism wikiLink to FG post on GreenLink to MLBTR on GreenLink to Green options flow chartLink to The Core Stat Blast episodeLink to The Core wikiLink to story on the real coreLink to The Core baseball sceneLink to Green vs. Hampton H2HLink to 2004 Green vs. Hampton storyLink to lopsided batter-pitcher matchupsLink to ’99–’02 top position playersLink to Randall Munroe on the shuttleLink to Green vs. pitchersLink to Greinke vs. hittersLink to Green vs. Greinke H2HLink to MLB 2004 wikiLink to Green’s bookLink to Jay on Greinke re-signingLink to story on Greinke’s cutterLink to above-average low-K%+ SPLink to 2022 SP by K%+Link to Posnanski on GreinkeLink to first Greinke oral historyLink to second Greinke oral historyLink to third Greinke oral historyLink to fourth Greinke oral historyLink to 2019 thread of Greinke storiesLink to Greinke calling his own signsLink to Greinke at game in standsLink to list of best-hitting pitchersLink to Jayson’s author archiveLink to 1963 story sourceLink to David Lewis’s TwitterLink to David Lewis’s SubstackLink to ESPN on the tennis exhibitionLink to “Battle of Surfaces” videoLink to tennis serve clock storyLink to 2022 RP WAR leadersLink to John Adams obitLink to Adams Guardians inductionLink to Hilda AwardLink to Baseball Reliquary episodeLink to turf definitionLink to artificial turf wikiLink to “Was the Grink There?” tweet Sponsor Us on Patreon Facebook Group Twitter Account EW Subreddit Effectively Wild Wiki iTunes Feed (Please rate and review us!) Get Our Merch! Email Us: podcast@fangraphs.comvar SERVER_DATA = Object.assign(SERVER_DATA || {});Source