Effectively Wild Episode 2215: Boom Boom Goes the Dynamite

September 11, 2024

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley discuss the solution to a Carlos Estévez prediction cold case, share a baseball-sicko experience prompted by the band Hinds’s new single, put actors on baseball-movie Mount Rushmore (in honor of the late, great, James Earl Jones), scrutinize two suggestions for HBP policing, assess the risks and history of ceremonial first pitches, Nora Ephron’s fandom, and the “first ball” in the movie My Blue Heaven, and banter about a White Sox ad for MLB.TV, the call-up of Jasson Domínguez, Gerrit Cole’s return to form, whether Corbin Burnes’s free agency could play out like Blake Snell’s and Jordan Montgomery’s, the Mets-Braves wild card race, Francisco Lindor, Trea Turner, and fan ovations, the unsung A’s offense, Jerry DiPOBO’s Seattle staying power, and more.

Audio intro: The Shirey Brothers, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Kite Person, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to player predictions EW wiki
Link to Estévez story
Link to Estévez game
Link to Estévez radio call
Link to McMahon homer
Link to Aaron Muñoz Insta
Link to Dollar Dogs article 1
Link to Dollar Dogs article 2
Link to Dollar Dogs article 3
Link to “Boom Boom Back”
Link to Viva Hinds album
Link to Hinds wiki
Link to 1933 Elmer the Great nickname
Link to Boom-Boom Beck SABR bio
Link to Elmer, the Great wiki
Link to Time on Elmer, the Great
Link to NYT on Elmer, the Great
Link to JEJ NYT obit
Link to Joe E. Brown wiki
Link to Ken Medlock wiki
Link to Baseball: The Movie
Link to Gittell on EW
Link to The Sandlot scene
Link to Merrifield Athletic article 2
Link to FB ABS HBP post
Link to HBP replay review rules
Link to Bethune first pitch report
Link to Koike injury report
Link to Baylor injury report
Link to My Blue Heaven first ball clip
Link to My Blue Heaven Padres scene
Link to Sleepless in Seattle scene
Link to My Blue Heaven wiki
Link to info president pitches
Link to The Winning Team wiki
Link to first pitches wiki
Link to first pitch/ball history
Link to Ephron on Tekulve
Link to story on Robinson
Link to The Naked Gun clip
Link to White Sox ad
Link to MLBTR on Domínguez
Link to pitcher WAR since 8/1
Link to Ben C. on Braves-Mets
Link to FG playoff odds
Link to FG SP projections
Link to team SP WAR
Link to Megill velo story 1
Link to Megill velo story 2
Link to Megill velo story 3
Link to Lindor ovation story
Link to Turner doc story
Link to team batting post-ASB
Link to squandered GSc>= 50
Link to squandered GSc>= 60
Link to squandered GSc>= 65
Link to squandered GSc>= 75
Link to M’s starts of GSc>= 75
Link to MLBTR on Dipoto report
Link to BP on Dipoto
Link to Mariners playoff appearances
Link to Hyden’s five-albums test
Link to listener emails database
Link to Machado homer story
Link to Banda punch story
Link to Bird Bones song
Link to ballpark meetup forms
Link to meetup organizer form