
Effectively Wild Episode 1981: An Arrow in the Knee at the WBC
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
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The Impossible Dream
As a kid, about 10 years old, I taught myself how to program in order to keep track of our Stratomatic Baseball Week that me and my kids in my neighborhood played. And then between graduate school and postdoc, he'd just finished his PhD in biophysics and got a call from a friend who said, are you sitting down? He said, I have the perfect job for you. A friend of his was starting a team in the new big South League and independent league in Tennessee. The Columbia Mules. And they needed a broadcaster. So although I had no experience as a broadcaster, I interviewed with a general manager and they liked me and me and a friend. We
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