Effectively Wild Episode 2384: Playoff Baseball is Cruel (But it Beats the Alternative)

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

October 7, 20251 hr 40 min
Baseball

Effectively Wild Episode 2384: Playoff Baseball is Cruel (But it Beats the Alternative)

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Episode Notes

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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Meg’s recovery from illness and her ongoing emotional distress as a postseason spectator, then share their takeaways from the first two games of each ALDS and the first game of each NLDS. After that (51:15), Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie joins to talk about how he’s handling postseason stress, his thoughts on the Mariners season and playoff performance so far, the team he would root for if he weren’t an M’s fan, and whether he’d write a Mariners victory song, plus a postscript (1:31:15) on how Guardians fans are feeling.

Audio intro: Ian H., “Effectively Wild Theme
Audio interstitial: Cory Brent, “Effectively Wild Theme
Audio outro: Dave Armstrong and Mike Murray, “Effectively Wild Theme

Link to Langs on Yesavage
Link to Ben on first-year pitchers
Link to Passan on Roki’s reinvention
Link to FG post on M’s-Tigers G2
Link to DCFC’s Mariners post
Link to 2011 interview about DCFC’s name
Link to “Ichiro’s Theme”

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