Transcript
Meg Riley (0:03)
How can you not be pedantic? A stat blast will keep you distracted. It's a long slog to death, but they're sure to make you smile. This is effectively wild. This is effectively wild. This is effectively wild. Hello, and welcome to episode. Episode 2462 of Effectively Wild, a Fan Graphs baseball podcast, brought to you by our Patreon supporters. I'm Meg Riley of Fan Graphs, and I'm joined as often, not as always, but basically as always, by Ben Limburger, the ringer. Ben, how are you?
Ben Lindbergh (0:48)
Yeah. Barring a baby, pretty much always. Yeah.
Meg Riley (0:52)
Pretty much always.
Ben Lindbergh (0:53)
Well, I'm doing well.
Meg Riley (0:54)
Yeah.
Ben Lindbergh (0:54)
It's nice to hear your voice again.
Meg Riley (0:56)
Yeah.
Ben Lindbergh (0:57)
And because you were traveling a bit and we front loaded our recording schedule, I. I hesitate to. It's been a while since we've spoken because I know that that sometimes. Yeah. Causes you to break into song. But. But it has been some time by Effectively Wild standards. So we have much to discuss and catch up on. And I thought maybe next time we could do a check in on some teams that are tanking their playoff odds already because it will have been two weeks since opening day. Then we'll. We'll give them a couple days to get their acts together and for teams that are doing well to come back to earth a bit. But we still have big elements to discuss. We have to get into the promotion of Connor Griffin. Of course, we have to talk about the heroics of Joe Adele. But I wanted to lead with some big news out of Kansas City, which was Carter Jensen overslept. This was. This was a scandal. Carter Jensen, young Royals catcher, he overslept and he showed up late, and he was very apologetic. And he's off to a fantastic start offensively this season, you know, very promising prospect, et cetera. But he did oversleep. And I was wondering why this doesn't happen more often, because you don't see this story all that often about so and so overslept and had to be scratched. Salvi, I think, was supposed to dh and he was pressed into service. Had to strap on the old tools of ignorance, which at his age, you know, he was banking on a partial day off, perhaps, but he had to spring into action, creek into action, because Carter Jensen was not there on time. And look, as scandals go.
Meg Riley (2:46)
Yeah.
