Show notes
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the joy of Opening Day and other news, including early reactions to the new rules, Rob Manfred’s comments about the ball-strike challenge system, Aaron Judge’s first homer, the Angels’ Tungsten Arm game, a good/bad Hunter Renfroe no-look catch, a Taylor Ward name mix-up, the Giants’ latest new left fielder, a Cristian Pache press release, Buck Martinez, George Santos’s message for the Mets, the minor league CBA, an on-field proposal gone wrong (but also sort of right), and more. Then (58:11) they conduct the third annual Team Fun Draft, in which they draft all 30 teams in order of how fun they are to follow in 2023, plus a Past Blast (1:56:06) from 1988 and a few follow-ups.Audio intro: The Shirey Brothers, “Effectively Wild Theme”Audio outro: The Needy Visions, “Havers of Fun”Link to Opening Day press releaseLink to Opening Day statsLink to Manfred on the zoneLink to Judge homerLink to Grant’s Judge tweetLink to Ward/Wade wikiLink to story on Giants LFLink to info on Ohtani outingLink to Tungsten Arm storyLink to Renfroe’s catchLink to Renfroe catch probabilityLink to Pache press releaseLink to Baumann’s Pache tweetLink to Buck’s booth returnLink to Buck impressionLink to MLBTR on VerlanderLink to Santos videoLink to info on the CBALink to CBA ratification newsLink to Baumann on the CBALink to Russell on Cost in 2012Link to Russell on cost in 2013Link to Russell on cost in 2021Link to proposal video 1Link to proposal video 2Link to TMZ on the proposalLink to other proposal reportLink to Yankees uni numbers storyLink to Cruz homerLink to Bard anxiety storyLink to 1988 Past Blast sourceLink to Triple-A Classic wikiLink to Triple-A Alliance wikiLink to Sam on 1988Link to David Lewis’s TwitterLink to David Lewis’s SubstackLink to Ben on the pitch clockLink to Ben’s preseason predictionsLink to Meg’s preseason predictionsLink to EW prediction voting resultsLink to double-draft episodeLink to before/after WS oddsLink to FanDuel OD WS oddsLink to DraftKings OD WS OddsLink to EW drafts/competitions sheetLink to expanded playoffs incentivesLink to Forbes on OhtaniLink to sped-up Trout/Ohtani videoLink to side-by-side Trout/Ohtani 1Link to side-by-side Trout/Ohtani 2Link to The Sun on AngelosLink to Sun editorial on AngelosLink to Angelos radio quotesLink to Defector on AngelosLink to The Shirey Brothers Bandcamp 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