New Effectively Wild Heat Map T-Shirts Are Here!
Both the Effectively Wild podcast and community are marvelous. And with the help of that community, we have a new t-shirt for sale.
This is the first two-sided t-shirt in FanGraphs history, and it’s a doozy. As has become a FanGraphs custom, the t-shirt was designed by Aaron Gershman of Creative Sentencing, who you should absolutely hire for your next design project. But the cool part about this shirt is that it was made with input from the EW community. Let’s take a look at the broad strokes:
The back, as you can see, is a heat map. But it’s not just any heat map. It’s a heat map of all the things that are (or are not) discussed on the podcast. The items in the red boxes are discussed frequently, those in the white boxes are discussed rarely, and in the blue are things that are never discussed. Let’s take a closer look at the heat map, shall we?
Things like actual baseball games may never be discussed on the pod, but with plenty of Matt Albers and Ned Garver talk, you really can’t go wrong.
These wonderful t-shirts are now available for sale for $30. We have to charge a little more for these since they are two-sided, but we think it’s still a pretty great value. We hope you will too, and will continue to support Effectively Wild, which has been a great addition to the FanGraphs family!
(In other t-shirt news, the “Do You Go To FanGraphs At All?” t-shirts are also back in stock. Get ’em while they’re hot!)
Paul Swydan used to be the managing editor of The Hardball Times, a writer and editor for FanGraphs and a writer for Boston.com and The Boston Globe. Now, he owns The Silver Unicorn Bookstore, an independent bookstore in Acton, Mass. Follow him on Twitter @Swydan. Follow the store @SilUnicornActon.
That’s enough to keep me from going shirtless!
Only 7 XX-L left in stock, act fast!
If I’m remembering right, that’s the heat map of an actual player, right?
Michael Trout
Typical that the Reds don’t even show up in a blue square
Shohei Ohtani? Is it not Otani.
I’ve seen it both ways
Technically it’s a couple of Kanji characters so every transliteration into English is effectively wrong, or right, or wild.
The nation demands a Cistulli-centric version!
https://imgur.com/a/SVLsl
Nice. You need to add Emil Cioran readings.
Damn, got him confused with Sartre
“Actual Baseball Games” is appropriately placed in one of the two least referenced boxes…
HOWEVER!
The fact that Vin Scully appears in what appears to be the 7th least referenced box should cause you to do some serious soul searching. (Also Left-Handed Catchers, talk about Left-Handed Catchers more)
You do realize this heatmap was generated by running speech recognition software on all the podcasts and generating a histogram of aggregate word usage from the resulting text output, correlated across two axes (enthusiasm and pod-to-pod carryover) to get the resulting plot. It’s a very wonky, highly technical process. You don’t think this was all just made up for the t-shirt, do you?