Effectively Wild Episode 1897: Pluses and Meneses

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the annual promotion of Terrance Gore as a harbinger of the changing seasons, the modest September roster expansion and the arrivals or returns of Gunnar Henderson, Oswald Peraza, and Billy Hamilton, an umpire caught swearing on a hot mic (4:45), whether the Yankees could actually lose their lead in the AL East (7:59), the continued torrid hitting of Joey Meneses (20:09), the offensive potential of MLB games in Mexico City (21:34), an interruption (22:02) for a real-time reaction to Meneses’s walk-off homer, and two Past Blasts from 1897 (30:10). Then (46:57) they talk to Evan Drellich, senior writer for The Athletic, about the MLBPA’s effort to unionize the minors, touching on why the announcement was such a surprise, why this campaign is happening now, what will happen next, how a union of major and minor leaguers would work, potential points of conflict and agreement, how the sport could change, how far minor league advocacy has come, the league’s response, what the unionized minors might mean for Rob Manfred, and Jeff Luhnow’s sneaky phone deletions. Audio intro: James Taylor, “Migration” Audio interstitial: Todd Rundgren, “Long Flowing Robe” Audio outro: Billy Bragg, “There is Power in a Union” Link to Gore EW episode Link to story on swallow migration Link to Dan S. on Henderson Link to hot-mic ump Link to Rob Mains on winning by losing Link to story on Ohtani homer Link to Trivino jersey story Link to story on Meneses homer Link to MLB.TV offer Link to Ben on baseball in Mexico City Link to MLB on the Mexico City series Link to Richard Hershberger’s Strike Four Link to 1897 knuckler story source 1 Link to 1897 knuckler story source 2 Link to @OldBaseballNews account Link to NYT story on bathrobe Link to Emslie’s SABR bio Link to bathrobe story 2 Link to bathrobe story 3 Link to bathrobe story 4 Link to bathrobe story 5 Link to bathrobe story 6 Link to bathrobe story 7 Link to bathrobe story 8 Link to bathrobe story 9 Link to bathrobe story 10 Link to bathrobe story 11 Link to Evan on unionization Link to Evan’s Clark Q&A Link to Evan’s ILR expert Q&A Link to Gallup poll on unions Link to Winning Fixes Everything Link to Luhnow book excerpt Link to Rodger Sherman Yankees tweet  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: [email protected] var SERVER_DATA = Object.assign(SERVER_DATA || {}); Source