Show notes
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about this season’s giant cluster of wild card contenders, the potential for an inactive trade deadline, the role the White Sox will play, whether the compression of the standings is good or bad for baseball, and expanded-playoffs incentives. Then (33:46) they talk to NPR producer Alana Schreiber, creator and executive producer of the NPR/MLB podcast Road to Rickwood, about the history of the park that’s hosting its first MLB game this month, plus a postscript (1:17:48) about a postseason mid-PA pitching change.Audio intro: Cory Brent, “Effectively Wild Theme”Audio interstitial: Tom Rhoads, “Effectively Wild Theme”Audio outro: Guy Russo, “Effectively Wild Theme”Link to MLBTR on the Biggio tradeLink to Ben on preseason projectionsLink to Sheehan on parityLink to FG playoff oddsLink to MLB standingsLink to Road to RickwoodLink to Road to Rickwood siteLink to MLB on RtRLink to NPR on RtRLink to HoF on RickwoodLink to Wickwood wikiLink to MLB at Rickwood wikiLink to MLB’s Rickwood pageLink to Bull Durham anecdoteLink to Shelton on EWLink to EW Episode 1887Link to 1991 ALCS gameLink to ALCS game logLink to 1991 article page 1Link to 1991 article page 2Link to Ben on mid-PA changesLink to ballpark meetup formsLink to meetup organizer form 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