Effectively Wild Episode 2172: No LOLMetsing Matter
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley deliver on FanGraphs affiliate editor Matt Martell to debate the scenes at Citi Field that kicked off the Mets’ Jorge López saga, the ensuing DFA and fallout, and what this foolish/unhappy sequence of occasions suggests concerning the potential for participant intent to be misplaced in translation, how off-the-field points can manifest on the sphere, and the road between LOLMets and extra severe conditions. Then (42:00) Ben and Meg are joined by Trout-tier Patreon supporter Andrew Simard to discover the podcast as a sleep help and reply listener emails a few jack-of-all-trades group vs. a specialist group, studying baseball lingo and the “double out,” the necessity for a nickname for Kyle Tucker, Anthony Rizzo and batter’s-box mobility, strike-zone multipl...