Still two free pods a week, you just need to be a subscriber for the third each week and the monthly off topic pod. Ben has to pay for all those eggs somehow.
I listened for free for years and years. Finally starting contributing last year.
Electrical_Yard_284
It seems like a mistake to not make this part of a FanGraphs paid membership, but what do I know? I find both the FanGraphs written content and Effectively Wild to have drifted pretty far in tone from what I loved about the whole undertaking for years, but fair enough, times change.
GKRForever
They are the only sports podcast I listen to that doesn’t do ads, and particularly shuns sports betting ads.
Old_Condition_8250
This is fair, it makes sense, and as someone who already struggles to pay the bills, well, enjoy folks. I want creators to get what they deserve, and I genuinely don’t oppose this change, but I also hope people can see that monthly subscriptions add up fast and a $10/month lowest tier is financially prohibitive for an awful lot of us.
cooljammer00
Makes sense. They’ve always been fairly open about how much money they aren’t making from the show over the years, and they were only going to stave off capitalism for so long, especially once the literal editor of Fangraphs joined the show. She sounds exhausted all the time, and is clearly burning the candle at both ends, so they probably have to justify why she’s spending so much time on the podcast instead of focusing on the website. They might as well make a little money from it.
They say they will try not to constantly refer to stuff on the premium episodes that most people won’t have heard, but they already do that now when they talk about Ben’s weird gym habits and refer to discussions they have on the Patreon only bonus episodes.
I’m not a subscriber and don’t really plan to be, so if anything, this is just giving me 33% less EW to have to catch up on. As somebody still working my way through my entire podcast backlog from December 2025, I’ll be okay.
edit: No idea why they made the explanation a Google Doc instead of just….posting it on the website they run/control that hosts the actual website.
Falling-Down-Stairs
Hard not to understand why they are making this choice, but the entry level being $10/month or $108/yr is steep. I wonder if they used a rule of thumb of ‘$1 per hour of paywalled content per month’, and if so they might be a victim of their own prolific output.
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Still two free pods a week, you just need to be a subscriber for the third each week and the monthly off topic pod. Ben has to pay for all those eggs somehow.
I listened for free for years and years. Finally starting contributing last year.
It seems like a mistake to not make this part of a FanGraphs paid membership, but what do I know? I find both the FanGraphs written content and Effectively Wild to have drifted pretty far in tone from what I loved about the whole undertaking for years, but fair enough, times change.
They are the only sports podcast I listen to that doesn’t do ads, and particularly shuns sports betting ads.
This is fair, it makes sense, and as someone who already struggles to pay the bills, well, enjoy folks. I want creators to get what they deserve, and I genuinely don’t oppose this change, but I also hope people can see that monthly subscriptions add up fast and a $10/month lowest tier is financially prohibitive for an awful lot of us.
Makes sense. They’ve always been fairly open about how much money they aren’t making from the show over the years, and they were only going to stave off capitalism for so long, especially once the literal editor of Fangraphs joined the show. She sounds exhausted all the time, and is clearly burning the candle at both ends, so they probably have to justify why she’s spending so much time on the podcast instead of focusing on the website. They might as well make a little money from it.
They say they will try not to constantly refer to stuff on the premium episodes that most people won’t have heard, but they already do that now when they talk about Ben’s weird gym habits and refer to discussions they have on the Patreon only bonus episodes.
I’m not a subscriber and don’t really plan to be, so if anything, this is just giving me 33% less EW to have to catch up on. As somebody still working my way through my entire podcast backlog from December 2025, I’ll be okay.
edit: No idea why they made the explanation a Google Doc instead of just….posting it on the website they run/control that hosts the actual website.
Hard not to understand why they are making this choice, but the entry level being $10/month or $108/yr is steep. I wonder if they used a rule of thumb of ‘$1 per hour of paywalled content per month’, and if so they might be a victim of their own prolific output.