Effectively Wild Episode 2503: Very Important Prey
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley share listener solutions to the mystery of why the 12-straight-hits club is such an undistinguished group, the Home Run Derby field, Bryce Harper's video message (13:28) to a sports-betting addict and sportsbooks' practice of preying on whales, the disparity (35:54) in the recent treatment of two pitchers who had no-hitters in progress, and Zack Wheeler's gripe against All-Star selecting, then (1:02:42) answer a listener email about how much a game one has to have seen to claim to have "watched" it, and Stat Blast (1:23:20) about partial home run robberies, games with matching starter pitch and strike counts, historical team no-hitter conversion rates, and prolific "first" strikeout and home-run recorders.
Audio intro: Ian H., "Effectively Wild Theme"Audio outro: Justin Peters, "Effectively Wild Theme"Link to Tolbert record post 1Link to Tolbert record post 2Link to Williams 11th hitLink to Pedroia 11th hitLink to HRD fieldLink to Norway rowing pedantLink to Inquirer article on HarperLink to Post article on HarperLink to lawsuit articleLink to Giannis/Kalshi articleLink to gambling damage research 1Link to gambling damage research 2Link to addiction story 1Link to addiction story 2Link to addiction story 3Link to addiction story 4Link to addiction story 5Link to story on Jones 1Link to story on Jones 2Link to Jones game logLink to questions about JonesLink to Jones Q&ALink to Cease storyLink to BP on CeaseLink to top 2026 pitch countsLink to Blum on pulling pitchersLink to Scott/PCA clipLink to Ben on no-hitter strike zonesLink to Wheeler quote clipLink to Wheeler's agent articleLink to latest Luzardo startLink to 2025 Phillies ASG complaintsLink to "May I meet you?" memeLink to Pascal's wager wikiLink to "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?"Link to Simpson/Adell robberyLink to Glavine game 1Link to Glavine game 2Link to Nola questionLink to Bois on StiebLink to Stat Blast dataLink to listener emails databaseLink to Cubs fact 1Link to Cubs fact 2Link to MLBTR on OhtaniLink to MLBTR on Wetherholt
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