Effectively Wild Episode 1159: The Reverse DePodesta

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January 6, 2018

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Ben Lindbergh talks to FanGraphs’ newest hire, Meg Rowley, about her transition to full-time baseball writing, becoming a professional writer after starting out in a very different occupation, and her gravitation toward increasingly less lucrative industries. Then Ben, Meg, and ESPN’s Bill Barnwell talk to Minnesota Twins Director of Baseball Operations Daniel Adler about Adler’s recent move from football front offices to a baseball front office and how the two sports differ in work culture, their embrace of analysis, statistics, and technology, their respective risks of injury, and much more.

Audio intro: The Clash, "Career Opportunities"
Audio interstitial: Belle and Sebastian, "I Don’t Want to Play Football"
Audio interstitial 2: Camera Obscura, "My Maudlin Career"
Audio outro: The Format, "Career Day"

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JohnnyFangMember since 2016
8 years ago

Nice use of game theory terminology (strict dominance)… econ degree coming in handy.

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JoserMember since 2021
8 years ago

The “Jeff Sullivan Vacation Cavalcade” sounds like the title of an obscure Flaming Lips song. It also made me realize how present Jeff is in these podcasts despite his physical and audible absence. Which led me to wonder if there was any chance Jeff would actually go back and listen to any of these. I strongly suspect — for time reasons if nothing else — he would not. Like that “football fan” listener who finally had his prayers answered by hearing football on the baseball podcast he has been listening to stubbornly and insanely all this time, the Jeff that listens to these podcasts recorded in his absence is an imaginary, non-existent person.

So that made me think: if the drought of actual baseball news continues during Jeff’s absence, why not have a Waiting For Jeff Sullivan podcast? That is, a podcast about Jeff Sullivan? You could have various friends and work colleges on telling Jeff stories. I’m sure there are enough to fill a podcast without getting into things that go beyond slightly embarrassing to Mr. Sullivan. And the threat of the next one might convince him never to go on vacation again, so we will never be bereft of his voice in the future. Everybody wins. Well, except maybe him.

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