Effectively Wild Episode 1982: Season Preview Series: Mets and Athletics

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the WBC’s TV ratings in Japan and (8:56) possible consequences of MLB’s RSN shake-up, then continue their 2023 season preview series by discussing the New York Mets (21:08) with Deesha Thosar of Fox Sports, and the Oakland Athletics (1:00:11) with Matt Kawahara of The SF Chronicle, plus a Past Blast from 1982 (1:39:53) and trivia answers (1:52:11).

Audio intro: Jonathan Crymes, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio interstitial 1: The Beets, “Watching Television”
Audio interstitial 2: Goodbye Kumiko, “Oakland”
Audio outro: Superare, “Sunglasses”

Link to Tokyo water pressure story
Link to report about WBC ratings
Link to Twitter thread about ratings
Link to Super Bowl ratings
Link to highest WS ratings
Link to MLB WBC press release
Link to co-exclusive partner banter
Link to Sheehan’s newsletter
Link to MLBTR on Diamond
Link to Premier League history
Link to teams’ local revenue
Link to FanGraphs playoff odds
Link to FG payroll breakdown
Link to Mets offseason tracker
Link to Mets depth chart
Link to Deesha on Díaz
Link to Jay Jaffe on Díaz
Link to Mets trumpet taps video
Link to Deesha on Álvarez and Baty
Link to Deesha on the farm system
Link to Deesha’s author archive
Link to Athletics offseason tracker
Link to Athletics depth chart
Link to Nimmo video
Link to Nimmo article
Link to West Wing scene
Link to Eck’s Pirates comments
Link to Vogt hiring story
Link to Matt on CF
Link to story on Pache in LF
Link to Dan Moore on the A’s park
Link to Matt’s spring hitting preview
Link to Matt’s spring pitching preview
Link to Matt’s author archive
Link to 1982 article source
Link to Opti-Web glove
Link to BP on Mizuno
Link to article on baseball sunglasses
Link to David Lewis’s Twitter
Link to David Lewis’s Substack
Link to Ryan Nelson’s Twitter

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