JotCast | 2018 World Series Game One Live Chat

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Jay Jaffe

9:23

as of now, Hyper, it looks about even in terms of number of pitches inside the zone that were called balls

Jeff Sullivan

9:24

Boy that is a perfect full-count slider to Betts

Arthur

9:24

Why can't we just make a bunch of clones of Mike Petriello and Jason Benetti to call every game

Guy Smiley

9:24

Neither starter is at their career best.

Mike

9:25

I came to make a snarky skip schumaker comment, got beat by Dan

Jeff Sullivan

9:25

That was an extremely deceptive fly ball off the bat

Always makes me laugh when hitters don't know where they hit the ball

Dan Szymborski

9:26

I once saw a scouting report for Skip Schumaker. His weakness at the plate is pitches.

I think that was my meanest Schumaker comment.

9:27

This was the most esoteric

Jay Jaffe

9:27

For sale: one very adorable 2-year-old girl who is nursing a cold and possessed by Satan. Needs to be re-tucked in every 10 minutes during postseason games. Inquire within.

Dan Szymborski

9:27

Skip Schumaker is less successful against lefties than the White Russians.

nickg

9:27

"You cannot simulate baseball when you're resting."

jonnyzuck

9:28

My dad, a fan of an AL team in his 60s always roots for the AL to win the WS regardless of who the teams are. I am in my 20s and I give no consideration to the league when I decide who I root for in the WS and I haven't heard anyone my age that always roots for the team in their league. Is that something that is relatively unique to my dad or is it because he grew up in an era where the AL and NL were operated more like 2 different leagues as opposed to acting like conferences as they do today? And if it's the second one, what is the approximate age cutoff for that type of thinking?

Dan Szymborski

9:28

I acutally would have put the cutoff as older than 60s.

Jay Jaffe

9:28

good lord that Machado play.

Jeff Sullivan

9:28

Visually that was an extremely weird double play

Freese is the only first baseman I've ever seen to pick a ball without doing that vertical glove swipe

9:29

Also Pearce was safe at first

Matt

9:29

I feel like the next great insight in RE-type things ia going to be sequencing related and involving Markov Chains. Dan - 7%. And the tacos are still in play. This is my final offer.

Dan Szymborski

9:29

The problem about moving to Python is I'll still have to learn Python because I always have yearly changes and versions that are a few years from primetime.

Joe

9:30

Safe and interference! This will only take 57 minutes to resolve.

PitchClocksPlease

9:30

Jay...Pro tip - Bee pollen (I take 3 pills) about 1 hour before you want to snooze. Deep slumber, no grogginess when you have to get up.

Jay Jaffe

9:30

PEDs!

Dystopian Future

9:30

The broadcast booths are politics just like everything else. If you stuck two statheads in there the viewing audience would likely be a lot smaller, and die-hards like the people here will watch the game regardless, so they don't care.

Jeff Sullivan

9:30

You're not wrong

9:31

"Come on, Timmy, let's go!" Dave Roberts, to umpire Tim Timmons after a squeeze

And then Kershaw promptly earns the benefit of the doubt on an edge fastball!

Work! The! Refs!

Python?

9:31

I assumed that ZIPS was coded in Python. What is it coded in, then?

Jeff Sullivan

9:32

J.D. Martinez is such an extraordinary hitter. 3-2 Red Sox

Dan Szymborski

9:32

I got it all out of Statistica some years ago, so it's a spider's web of Excel and some add-ons.

Jeff Sullivan

9:32

Just stayed on that low slider and drove it like 415 feet?

B. Ryce Hammer's Luscious Locks

9:32

WTF? No Python for ZiPS? Get with the times!

Jeff Sullivan

9:32

oh god didn't need to see that replay of Martinez's ankle

9:33

That was aesthetically upsetting

Dan Szymborski

9:33

The other analysts make fun of me for not being an R guy.

9:33

409 foot, 109 mph double

Jeff Sullivan

9:33

I don't know how Martinez is walking right now

Arthur

9:34

I'm glad that my main interests of economics and baseball are united by their arguments over statistical programming languages

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