Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley, and Patreon supporter Reggie Deal banter about Reggie’s background as a baseball fan and Effectively Wild listener, his email correspondence with MLB and Rob Manfred, accessibility issues he’s encountered while following baseball as a blind person, and A’s fans’ upcoming “reverse boycott” event, then (22:25) answer listener emails about angry Aaron Boone earning the Yankees more favorable calls, MLB players providing in-game entertainment, how different baseball would be if it were more like Wii Sports, Esteury Ruiz, Luis Arraez, and riding a single standout skill to award consideration, ridiculously large batting helmets, and which .500-ish team is most likely to make the playoffs. Then (1:19:51) they Stat Blast about players who hit home runs of dramatically differing lengths on the same day, the longest team streaks without a left-on-left homer, and Anthony Rendon and other players whose teams hit better with runners in scoring position when they were in the lineup, plus a Past Blast (1:40:44) from 2018.

Audio outro: Jonathan Crymes, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to story about radio and Audacy

Link to Reggie’s Manfred letter

Link to National Beep Baseball Association

Link to EW Beep Baseball interview

Link to Rooted in Oakland website

Link to Rooted in Oakland tweet

Link to thread on Yankees calls

Link to story on Boone’s ejections

Link to ejection rates over time

Link to manager ejection totals

Link to manager ejection rates

Link to EW Episode 1855

Link to Wii Sports baseball footage

Link to Robert Orr on Arraez

Link to Arraez at Baseball Savant

Link to AVG+ leaders

Link to Sam on Hamilton

Link to FG playoff odds

Link to listener emails database

Link to FG playoff odds

Link to Topps Now Cards

Link to Zavala’s two homers

Link to Aquino’s three homers

Link to Jay Cuda tweet

Link to L-L/R-R HR spreadsheet

Link to Nevin/Rendon article

Link to BA w/RISP spreadsheet

Link to Hulse’s fouls

Link to Ryan Nelson on Twitter

Link to 2018 Past Blast source

Link to Nathanson’s website

Link to David Lewis’s Twitter

Link to David Lewis’s Substack

Link to Billy Joel’s “Pressure”

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