Effectively Wild Episode 2302: Opening Delay and the 2025 Team Fun Draft

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March 29, 2025

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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley react to assorted frustrations and delights of Opening Day, then (42:07) conduct the fifth annual Team Fun Draft, in which they draft all 30 teams in order of how fun they expect them to be to follow in 2025.

Audio intro: Jonathan Crymes 2, “Effectively Wild Theme 2”
Audio outro: El Warren, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to story on mlb.tv outage
Link to Guardians offer
Link to FG staff predictions post
Link to FG staff bold predictions
Link to Meg’s PPR summary
Link to Ringer entrance survey
Link to Contreras post
Link to Bibee on Chipotle
Link to Torkelson article
Link to Shohei HR reactions
Link to Rosen on ballparks

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Gho5tRun3rMember since 2016
8 months ago

I’m gonna push back slightly on MLB.tv being more reliable these days. Specifically just for casting. I remember it working much better with casting from my phone like 7 years ago and now everytime I try to cast, it chokes on itself every 15 seconds. It’s awful.

Other than that, yeah it’s a great product. Couldn’t be happier. Would love my in market games included that’s how much I like it. Especially when those games aren’t played at home in that market but are in like Toronto (I do not live near Toronto).

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