Effectively Wild Episode 1916: The Walk-Off Talk-Off
With Meg Rowley on the road, Ben Lindbergh reunites with his former Ringer MLB Show colleagues Michael Baumann, Zach Kram, and Bobby Wagner to discuss the moods of Mets and Phillies fans and catch up on the first few days of Division Series action, touching on Yordan Alvarez, Robbie Ray, a playoff walk-off oddity, Bryce Harper, Zack Wheeler, Phil Maton, Max Fried, Jeremy Peña, geese, soup, and much more, plus a Past Blast from 1916 and a postscript.
Audio intro: Mark Lanegan, “Together Again”
Audio outro: Dead Kennedys, “Soup is Good Food”
Link to Jake Mailhot on Ray/Alvarez
Link to MLB.com on Ray/Alvarez
Link to The Athletic on Ray/Alvarez
Link to Eno on Ray/Alvarez
Link to Zach’s walk-off data
Link to Stark on the Alvarez homer
Link to Petriello on the Alvarez homer
Link to Davy Andrews on ALDS G2
Link to Ben Clemens on Alvarez
Link to Ben L. on Alvarez in 2019
Link to Ben on playoff second-guessing
Link to Ben on playoff rookies
Link to info on Peña adjustment
Link to story on Maton
Link to story on Plesac
Link to Eno on Fried
Link to Ben on the Castellanos meme
Link to article on the goose
Link to 1916 story source
Link to SABR on the Giants’ streak
Link to Perritt’s SABR bio
Link to Jacob Pomrenke’s website
Link to Jacob Pomrenke on Twitter
Link to Correa TV segment
Link to Correa opt-out news
Link to Correa baby news
Link to goose email episode
Link to Sutter SABR bio
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The lower walk off homers in the playoffs is surely because we are talking good teams with good closers paying more attention to strategy in games they can not afford to lose.