Effectively Wild Episode 2302: Opening Delay and the 2025 Team Fun Draft
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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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).
Man, I gotta stop commenting before finishing things. Because I care more about hearing someone else have that Three Musketeers movie living rent free in their mind and life than MLB.tv. It’s such a fun movie in so many ways. I loved it growing up. My friends and I rewatched it too many times for some reason. So many quotable lines that could be memes these days. “This axe was a gift to me from the Czarina of Tokyo.”
Classic
MLB.tv is pretty reliable, but opening day outages seem to happen fairly regularly. I would guess that that is the height of usage, so it serves as the stress test for the rest of the season.