Show notes
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Yordan Alvarez kissing Martín Maldonado, Will Brennan’s birdslaughter (12:33), the Guardians’ slow start (23:12), Madison Bumgarner’s reported reluctance to alter his pitching approach (32:49), Mike Trout passing Ken Griffey Jr. in career Baseball-Reference WAR (45:56), whether the A’s will end up historically bad or rebound to being merely abysmal (1:03:38), the firing of A’s broadcaster Glen Kuiper (1:21:17), and the Dodgers’ Pride Night debacle (1:40:34), plus a Past Blast from 2010 (1:48:05).Audio intro: Xavier LeBlanc, “Effectively Wild Theme”Audio outro: The Shirey Brothers, “Effectively Wild Theme”Link to Yordan kiss imageLink to Yordan kiss videoLink to Pudge kiss imageLink to Brennan bird videoLink to other Brennan bird clipLink to Brennan tweetLink to baby pigeons infoLink to Gomes storyLink to playoff odds changesLink to Buchanan on BumgarnerLink to Mason Saunders storyLink to Trout/Griffey threadLink to B-Ref career WAR leadersLink to Dan S. on the A’sLink to Tango on the A’sLink to Sheehan on the A’sLink to tremendous content memeLink to Kuiper firing storyLink to other Kuiper storyLink to 2023 Kuiper clipLink to 2020 Kuiper clipLink to first Kuiper apologyLink to Braden explanationLink to Pride Night storyLink to 2010 Past Blast sourceLink to David Lewis’s TwitterLink to David Lewis’s SubstackLink to Mets lasagna storyLink to Brennan’s bird gestureLink to Brennan press conferenceLink to A’s stadium update 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