Ordinary Effort (Baseball Podcast) – Details, episodes &amp; analysis

Ep. 15: A 63 in box 1 and we STILL Madduxed this grid! | Immaculate Grid 22

Episode 15

Monday, October 21, 2024 • Duration 16:19

It's a group grid! 🚨 After the most basic answer to start this grid, we managed to keep our rarity score under 100 and Maddux this one.

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Timestamps:

(0:00) Intro

(0:25) Stats

(1:12) Rays/Silver Slugger

(2:55) Angels/Silver Slugger

(5:09) Rangers/Silver Slugger

(6:09) Rays/Red Sox

(6:37) Angels/Red Sox

(7:51) Rangers/Red Sox

(8:44) Rangers All-Star

(10:02) Angels All-Star

(11:49) Rays All-Star

(15:09) Recap

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Ep, 14: Red Sox-Mets Grid with MLB Hall of Good Podcast | Immaculate Grid 527

Episode 14

Monday, October 14, 2024 • Duration 31:53

Bryce Whitlow is the host of the MLB Hall of (Pretty) Good Podcast. He joined us for this episode to tackle a grid with Red Sox, Mets, Nats, Pirates, and some fun position boxes.

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Timestamps:

(0:00) Intro

(0:28) Stats

(1:31) Introducing Bryce Whitlow

(3:06) Red Sox/Played RF (min 1 game)

(5:48) Red Sox/Played LF (min 1 game)

(8:27) Red Sox/Mets

(11:41) Pirates/Mets

(14:07) Nationals/Mets

(16:16) Nationals/Played LF (min 1 game)

(19:17) About MLB Hall of (Pretty) Good Podcast

(20:31) Nationals/Played RF (min 1 game)

(23:06) Pirates/Played LF (min 1 game)

(25:00) Pirates/Played RF (min 1 game)

(29:47) Recap

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Ep. 13: SPECIAL EPISODE 🚨 | 10/4 Livestream

Episode 13

Monday, October 7, 2024 • Duration 01:01:41

It's our first Ordinary Effort livestream! We had a blast playing grid with our followers. If you want to relive the full experience, watch it here: https://youtube.com/live/SKfu1IRlgkY

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Timestamps:

(0:00) Intro

(1:43) 2024 Playoffs Chat

(3:24) Immaculate Grid 551

(31:49) Introducing Infinte Grid

(33:44) All Relievers Grid

(51:42) Thank You

(53:43) Speed Grid

(1:00:03) Recap

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Ep. 12: We listened to our Instagram followers! | Immaculate Grid 21

Monday, September 30, 2024 • Duration 16:17

BIG NEWS 🚨 We're going LIVE to play grid with our followers on Friday, October 4th at 10 PM ET.

🔗 Join the stream here: https://youtube.com/live/SKfu1IRlgkY

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75% of our rarity score came from the Rookie of the Year column... but we managed to pull some good names nonetheless.

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Timestamps:

(0:00) Introduction

(0:36) Welcome to Ordinary Effort

(1:27) Braves Rookie of the Year

(2:26) White Sox Rookie of the Year

(4:32) Angels Rookie of the Year

(6:34) Angels All-Star

(8:21) White Sox All-Star

(10:18) Braves All-Star

(11:28) Braves/Astros

(12:26) White Sox/Astros

(14:18) Angels/Astros

(14:50) White Sox/Astros

(15:12) Recap

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Ep. 11: It's a Yankees Mets Grid! 🚨| Immaculate Grid 2

Episode 11

Monday, September 23, 2024 • Duration 13:29

Mike is a suffering Mets fan. Josh is a diehard Yankees fan. When a grid features both their teams, it's going to be a good one.

We went all the way back to Immaculate Grid 2 for this week'e episode.

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Timestamps:

(0:00) Intro

(1:22) Astros World Series Champ

(2:30) Astros All-Star

(3:35) Astros/Nationals

(4:58) Yankees World Series Champ

(6:44) Mets World Series Champ

(7:57) Yankees All-Star

(9:02) Mets All-Star

(10:26) Yankees/Nationals

(11:02) Mets/Nationals

(13:33) Recap

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Ep. 10: The creator of rarity score pulled a 3 🤯 | Immaculate Grid 514

Episode 10

Monday, September 16, 2024 • Duration 29:38

Jessica Brand is a former MLB Network researcher and the creator of the rarity score for Immaculate Grid. She joined us for Grid 514 and did not disappoint.

We talked guys from the 1800s, a player who is responsible for the Pirates name, and a trade that almost sent Mariano Rivera to the Guardians!

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Timestamps:

(0:00) Intro

(1:19) Introducing Jessica Brand

(2:48) Origin of the rarity score

(4:37) Played SS/100+ RBI season

(7:00) Pirates/100+ RBI season

(8:17) Pirates/Mariners

(9:57) Pirates/Astros

(14:13) Played SS/Astros

(15:52) Played SS/Mariners

(18:07) Blue Jays/100+ RBI season

(21:40) Blue Jays/Astros

(23:05) Jessica's favorite grid categories & players

(25:52) Blue Jays/Mariners

(27:06) Recap

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Ep. 9: Please no more Rookie of the Year boxes | Immaculate Grid 20

Episode 9

Monday, September 9, 2024 • Duration 17:17

We'd be fine if we never saw a Rookie of the Year box on Immaculate Grid... like ever again.

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Timestamps:

(0:00) Intro

(1:59) Cardinals Rookie of the Year

(3:08) Rockies Rookie of the Year

(4:21) Rays Rookie of the Year

(5:28) Rockies Silver Slugger

(6:23) Rays Silver Slugger

(9:14) Cardinals Silver Slugger

(11:25) Rays/Cubs

(12:50) Rockies/Cubs

(14:40) Cardinals/Cubs

(16:36) Recap

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