Effectively Wild Episode 1449: The Nationals’ Lost Weekend
Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller banter about audible umpires, Lance Barksdale’s ball/strike calls in World Series Game 5, the Nationals’ offensive outage in Games 3-5, Max Scherzer’s neck spasms, Dave Martinez’s moves, why the series has been somewhat unexciting, the Nationals’ and Astros’ outlooks going into Game 6, the Astros’ retraction of their statement about Stephanie Apstein and Sports Illustrated, and a few hirings across the league, including the Pirates firing GM Neal Huntington and the Red Sox hiring the Rays’ Chaim Bloom as their new chief baseball officer.
Audio intro: The Who, "Run Run Run"
Audio outro: Joel Plaskett, "Run, Run, Run"
Link to Barksdale video
Link to Ben on Game 5
Link to Jim Crane’s retraction
Link to Chaim Bloom’s article archive
Link to order The MVP Machine
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Should have had an interlude with Jefferson Starship – Runaway
I have to say, this is the first I’ve heard about the umpire microphone — I don’t do twitter, at all, and I don’t listen to the broadcast — about half the games I’ve watched have been in a bar with the sound off, and half have been at home where I’ve sat in blessed Joe-Buck-free silence with the TV muted. Because I’d rather not hear the ballpark sounds at all than hear them besmirched by Joe Buck blathering on about upcoming NFL games or whatever other crap Fox makes him talk about or he’s just more interested in talking about than the baseball that’s right in front of him. (Not to mention being able to avoid hearing all the beer and truck and ED treatment commercials that paint such a hilarious picture of the demographic they seem to think is watching the game.)