Effectively Wild Episode 2061: Preseason Team Goals, Revisited

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September 19, 2023

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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about precedents for 50-year-old Bartolo Colon retiring as a Met, whether it’s better for a player to go out on top or be humbled a bit before the end, the ramifications of the Rays’ deal for a new ballpark in St. Petersburg, whether each team is on track to have a successful season by the standard set on the podcast’s season preview series, the likely end of Shohei Ohtani’s time with the Angels, and the curious career of Anthony Rendon.

Audio intro: Benny and a Million Shetland Ponies, “Effectively Wild Theme (Pedantic)”
Audio outro: Liz Panella, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to story about Colon
Link to Colon’s flip play
Link to Colon’s homer
Link to story about Bernie’s retirement
Link to story about Franco’s retirement
Link to story about Jones’s retirement
Link to story about Bautista’s retirement
Link to Ben on Pujols’s 2022
Link to Ben’s story on Chipper’s gifts
Link to Stark on the oldster derby
Link to EW episode on the derby idea
Link to Romney bio excerpt
Link to info on thinking things are worse
Link to story about Rays’ ballpark
Link to Drellich on public funding
Link to Manfred on expansion
Link to preview-pod team goals
Link to Gilligan on the Brewers
Link to Blum on Ohtani and the Angels
Link to Blum on Rendon
Link to EW episode on King
Link to EW episode on Ivie
Link to article on Rendon’s suspension
Link to video of Rendon altercation
Link to list of old Rendon articles

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