Ordinary Effort (Baseball Podcast)

We finally did the always popular all stats Immaculate Grid that people wait for on Saturdays.

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🚨 We built a community of grid fans on Discord. It's a place to share grids, talk baseball, and PLAY grid together. Join here: discord.gg/DbgZ7d3EZ2

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Timestamps:

(0:00) Intro

(0:26) Stats

(3:04) 30+ SB season/.300+ AVG season

(5:10) 100+ run season/Played 2B (min 1 game)

(8:24) 100+ RBI season/Played 2B (min 1 game)

(10:05) 30+ SB season/30+ HR season

(11:40) 100+ run season/.300+ AVG season

(14:20) 100+ RBI season/.300+ AVG season

(16:30) 30+ SB season/Played 2B (min 1 game)

(18:15) 100+ RBI season/30+ HR season

(19:57) 100+ run season/30+ HR season

(23:15) Recap

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For more of our baseball content:

Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@OrdinaryEffort 

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For our third stream, we were joined by Eric + Jacob - the creators of an addicting new daily baseball trivia game: Daily Walkoff.

Re-watch the stream: https://youtube.com/live/FDlrCKZ9vY4

Play Daily Walkoff: https://www.dailywalkoff.com/

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🚨 BIG NEWS 🚨

We officially opened our Immaculate Grid Discord. The server is a place to share daily grids, learn about grid legends, and talk baseball with fellow grid lovers.

Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/xVXGgDeV

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Timestamps:

(0:00) Intro

(0:59) Introducing Jacob + Eric

(3:25) Explaining Daily Walkoff

(4:17) Mariners Daily Walkoff

(8:39) Reds Daily Walkoff

(13:28) History of Daily Walkoff

(25:47) Immaculate Grid 198

(26:48) Astros / Mariners

(31:09) Astros / Cardinals

(33:47) Astros / Marlins

(36:43) Marlins All Star

(42:48) Mariners All Star

(49:53) Cardinals All Star

(55:50) Cardinals / Orioles

(59:38) Marlins / Orioles

(1:02:00) Go Play Daily Walkoff!

(1:05:00) Mariners / Orioles

(1:08:00) Rarity Reveal + Recap

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For more of our baseball content:

Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@OrdinaryEffort 

Follow us on socials:

Instagram: https://instagram.com/ordinaryeffort 

Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/ordinaryeffort.bsky.social

When you have a chance to use your first MLB player to follow your show... you take the chance. We did that, pulled some hidden gems, and scored a 21 on this teams / stats grid.

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🚨 We're going LIVE with the creators of Daily Walkoff on Friday, 11/22 at 10 pm ET. Save the link and come play grid with us: https://youtube.com/live/FDlrCKZ9vY4

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Timestamps:

(0:00) Intro

(1:38) Brewers/Braves

(4:32) White Sox/Braves

(6:12) Pirates/Braves

(7:23) Pirates/300+ HR Career

(8:43) Brewers/300+ HR Career

(10:45) White Sox/300+ HR Career

(14:54) Pirates/≤3.00 ERA season

(17:43) White Sox/≤3.00 ERA season

(20:38) Brewers/≤3.00 ERA season

(23:41) Recap

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For more of our baseball content:

Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@OrdinaryEffort 

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The 2024 MLB Season is over, and we're highlighting the players who reached stat thresholds that fit on Immaculate Grid. From SB to WAR to position players pitching... we've got you covered.

Head over to our Bluesky for more detailed stats.

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Timestamps:

(0:00) Intro

(1:49) A look back at the 2024 season

(2:42) Surprises from the season

(7:22) Position players pitching

(12:13) Emerging Marlins

(13:02) .300+ average hitters

(14:58) Arraez's 3rd batting title

(18:52) Downtrends in batting average

(21:56) Guess the 200+ Strikeout pitchers

(23:41) Kings of the Ks

(26:16) 30+ Steals

(27:14) The X-Factor/.300+ AVG, 30+ SB

(31:04) More steals

(31:50) Robles Renaissance

(33:30) Pitching WAR/The good 4

(35:43) How, Hunter Greene?

(38:05) Career 40+ WAR milestone

(40:37) Witt hits

(42:24) Leveling up/Royal value

(45:05) Recap/What did we miss?

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For more of our baseball content:

Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@OrdinaryEffort 

Follow us on socials:

Instagram: https://instagram.com/ordinaryeffort 

Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/ordinaryeffort.bsky.social

We went LIVE with Bryce Whitlow, host of MLB Hall of Good Podcast for a night of Immaculate Grid.

We talked Dodgers World Series win, Juan Soto's potential landing spots, offseason plans, and, of course, played Immaculate Grid.

Prefer to watch? Watch the stream here!

Check out MLB Hall of Good Podcast

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Timestamps:

(0:00) Intro

(1:02) 2024 Postseason Recap

(2:33) Shohei got his RING 💍

(3:24) Where will Juan Soto play in 2025?

(6:50) Immaculate Grid 413

(9:30) A's / Cardinals

(14:06) A's / Dodgers

(18:43) A's / Mariners

(21:41) Mariners / Giants

(25:50) Dodgers / Giants

(27:58) Cardinals / Giants

(31:49) Cardinals / Nationals

(35:56) Dodgers / Nationals

(42:49) Mariners / Nationals

(47:00) Recap

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For more of our baseball content:

Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@OrdinaryEffort 

Follow us on socials:

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We're joined by the hosts of 1988 Topps Podcast for a special episode. We talked baseball cards from the '80s, insane stories, and managed to keep our rarity score in single digits!

Want more baseball content?

Check out the 1988 Topps Podcast

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Timestamps:

(0:00) Intro

(0:53) Introducing 1988 Topps Podcast

(5:20) Topps meets Grid

(7:53) Orioles/Rangers

(10:56) Orioles/White Sox

(14:49) Orioles/Pirates

(17:56) Mets/White Sox

(19:26) Mets/Rangers

(22:41) Mets/Pirates

(25:38) Giants/Pirates

(28:37) Giants/White Sox

(31:36) Giants/Rangers

(34:01) Recap

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For more of our baseball content:

Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@OrdinaryEffort 

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It's a group grid! 🚨 After the most basic answer to start this grid, we managed to keep our rarity score under 100 and Maddux this one.

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Timestamps:

(0:00) Intro

(0:25) Stats

(1:12) Rays/Silver Slugger

(2:55) Angels/Silver Slugger

(5:09) Rangers/Silver Slugger

(6:09) Rays/Red Sox

(6:37) Angels/Red Sox

(7:51) Rangers/Red Sox

(8:44) Rangers All-Star

(10:02) Angels All-Star

(11:49) Rays All-Star

(15:09) Recap

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For more of our baseball content:

Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@OrdinaryEffort 

Follow us on socials:

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Bryce Whitlow is the host of the MLB Hall of (Pretty) Good Podcast. He joined us for this episode to tackle a grid with Red Sox, Mets, Nats, Pirates, and some fun position boxes.

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Timestamps:

(0:00) Intro

(0:28) Stats

(1:31) Introducing Bryce Whitlow

(3:06) Red Sox/Played RF (min 1 game)

(5:48) Red Sox/Played LF (min 1 game)

(8:27) Red Sox/Mets

(11:41) Pirates/Mets

(14:07) Nationals/Mets

(16:16) Nationals/Played LF (min 1 game)

(19:17) About MLB Hall of (Pretty) Good Podcast

(20:31) Nationals/Played RF (min 1 game)

(23:06) Pirates/Played LF (min 1 game)

(25:00) Pirates/Played RF (min 1 game)

(29:47) Recap

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For more of our baseball content:

Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@OrdinaryEffort 

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It's our first Ordinary Effort livestream! We had a blast playing grid with our followers. If you want to relive the full experience, watch it here: https://youtube.com/live/SKfu1IRlgkY

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Timestamps:

(0:00) Intro

(1:43) 2024 Playoffs Chat

(3:24) Immaculate Grid 551

(31:49) Introducing Infinte Grid

(33:44) All Relievers Grid

(51:42) Thank You

(53:43) Speed Grid

(1:00:03) Recap

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For more of our baseball content:

Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@OrdinaryEffort 

Follow us on socials:

Instagram: https://instagram.com/ordinaryeffort 

X: https://x.com/ordinaryeffort_ 

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Ordinary Effort is a part of the Old Man Squad Sports Network. Learn about other sports podcasts and follow the network on X at https://x.com/oldmansquad.

BIG NEWS 🚨 We're going LIVE to play grid with our followers on Friday, October 4th at 10 PM ET.

🔗 Join the stream here: https://youtube.com/live/SKfu1IRlgkY

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75% of our rarity score came from the Rookie of the Year column... but we managed to pull some good names nonetheless.

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Timestamps:

(0:00) Introduction

(0:36) Welcome to Ordinary Effort

(1:27) Braves Rookie of the Year

(2:26) White Sox Rookie of the Year

(4:32) Angels Rookie of the Year

(6:34) Angels All-Star

(8:21) White Sox All-Star

(10:18) Braves All-Star

(11:28) Braves/Astros

(12:26) White Sox/Astros

(14:18) Angels/Astros

(14:50) White Sox/Astros

(15:12) Recap

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For more of our baseball content:

Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@OrdinaryEffort 

Follow us on socials:

Instagram: https://instagram.com/ordinaryeffort 

X: https://x.com/ordinaryeffort_ 

TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@ordinaryeffort 

Ordinary Effort is a part of the Old Man Squad Sports Network. Learn about other sports podcasts and follow the network on X at https://x.com/oldmansquad.