Show notes
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the WBC’s TV ratings in Japan and (8:56) possible consequences of MLB’s RSN shake-up, then continue their 2023 season preview series by discussing the New York Mets (21:08) with Deesha Thosar of Fox Sports, and the Oakland Athletics (1:00:11) with Matt Kawahara of The SF Chronicle, plus a Past Blast from 1982 (1:39:53) and trivia answers (1:52:11). 2023 EW Season Preview Series
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Audio intro: Jonathan Crymes, “Effectively Wild Theme”Audio interstitial 1: The Beets, “Watching Television”Audio interstitial 2: Goodbye Kumiko, “Oakland”Audio outro: Superare, “Sunglasses”Link to Tokyo water pressure storyLink to report about WBC ratingsLink to Twitter thread about ratingsLink to Super Bowl ratingsLink to highest WS ratingsLink to MLB WBC press releaseLink to co-exclusive partner banterLink to Sheehan’s newsletterLink to MLBTR on DiamondLink to Premier League historyLink to teams’ local revenueLink to FanGraphs playoff oddsLink to FG payroll breakdownLink to Mets offseason trackerLink to Mets depth chartLink to Deesha on DíazLink to Jay Jaffe on DíazLink to Mets trumpet taps videoLink to Deesha on Álvarez and BatyLink to Deesha on the farm systemLink to Deesha’s author archiveLink to Athletics offseason trackerLink to Athletics depth chartLink to Nimmo videoLink to Nimmo articleLink to West Wing sceneLink to Eck’s Pirates commentsLink to Vogt hiring storyLink to Matt on CFLink to story on Pache in LFLink to Dan Moore on the A’s parkLink to Matt’s spring hitting previewLink to Matt’s spring pitching previewLink to Matt’s author archiveLink to 1982 article sourceLink to Opti-Web gloveLink to BP on MizunoLink to article on baseball sunglassesLink to David Lewis’s TwitterLink to David Lewis’s SubstackLink to Ryan Nelson’s Twitter Sponsor Us on Patreon Facebook Group Twitter Account EW Subreddit Effectively Wild Wiki iTunes Feed (Please rate and review us!) Get Our Merch! Email Us: podcast@fangraphs.comvar SERVER_DATA = Object.assign(SERVER_DATA || {});Source