About this episode
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the late Queen Elizabeth II’s first baseball game, the latest on Joey Meneses and Juan Soto (and on Soto being booed!), an Albert Pujols / Willians Astudillo fun fact, a Mets/Yankees first-place race update, additional thoughts on Aaron Judge and Shohei Ohtani , Paul Goldschmidt and the traditional Triple Crown vs. the “sabermetric” Triple Crown, and the great Rookie of the Year races between Julio Rodríguez and Adley Rutschman in the AL and between Spencer Strider and Michael Harris II in the NL, then (49:03) answer listener emails about Carlos Correa ’s front-office chops and unwritten rules they actually like, plus a Past Blast (1:22:15) from 1900. Audio intro : Dan Bern, “ Queen ” Audio outro : Keith Richards, “ Yap Yap ” Link to story about QE2’s first game Link to other story about the game Link to the game at B-Ref Link to video of the Queen at the game Link to The Naked Gun clip Link to Reggie tweet Link to Meneses/Soto graphic Link to other Meneses/Soto graphic Link to Meneses EW YouTube video Link to post about Nats’ elimination Link to article about Soto boos Link to Uni Watch on booing Link to Pujols/Astudillo tweet Link to Sarah Lang’s Mets tweet Link to Jay Jaffe on the Mets Link to list of Triple Crown winners Link to Ben Clemens on Judge Link to Historic Achievement Award Link to Strider screenshot Link to Jeremy Frank tweet Link to CBA details Link tweet about Correa Link to story about Correa Link to Keuchel’s 2017 comments Link to info on nose-thumbing Link to list of unwritten rules Link to Vlad’s comment on showboating Link to Hang Up and Listen episode Link to story on Rangers vs. Celtics Link to EW emails database Link to Richard Hershberger’s Strike Four Link to 1900 story source Link to story about 2023 rules changes Sponsor Us on Patreon Subscribe to Stathead (Code: WILD20) Facebook Group Twitter Account EW Subreddit Effectively Wild Wiki iTunes Feed (Please rate and review us!) Get Our Merch! Email Us: podcast@fangraphs.com var SERVER_DATA = Object.assign(SERVER_DATA || {}); Source