JotCast | 2019 World Series Game 3 Chat

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Dan Szymborski

9:14

The man responsible for it, Chris Dial, is a more accomplished drinker than anyone here or anyone anyone here has ever known!

Jay Jaffe

9:15

I would agree that the Gold Gloves have gotten better and that Chris can drink us all under the table

David Laurila

9:15

I'll take Shane MacGowan over Dial, although his baseball acumen is likely quite limited.

Dan Szymborski

9:15

I've seen Chris casually put away 20 beers as if it was nothing!

9:16

These days, the 15 dark and stormys I had at the Cleveland panel were enough to get me sick later that night.

bosoxforlife

9:16

Seeing Buzz Aldrin gave me a chill. I wonder how many on this chat saw the moon landing. It is a moment that nobody who saw it will ever forget.

Jay Jaffe

9:16

future HOF in this World Series: very likely Verlander, Scherzer, Greinke. More likely than not: Altuve. Off to good starts: Soto, Correa, Bregman. There's not a lot of middle ground though

David Laurila

9:16

We should put Dial on a coast-to-coast flight with Wade Boggs and make an assessment when they land.

Dan Szymborski

9:16

DIAL VS BOGGS

Adam2

9:17

Is Chris Australian?

Byron Buxton

9:17

They had an astronaut throw the first pitch?

Dan Szymborski

9:17

Chris is a pharmaceutical chemist, though he's been more in the business/administrative side for a while now

bosoxforlife

9:17

My husband is a big Yankees fan so he sleeps on the couch.

Charlie

9:17

I thought Wade Boggs was dead

Dan Szymborski

9:17

heh

Gerrit Cole

9:18

HOF odds for me? Maybe around 20%?

Dan Szymborski

9:18

David Laurila

9:18

Nothing to do with anything, but I discovered today that Adam Dunn had more than twice as many stolen bases as Joe DiMaggio.

kevinthecomic

9:18

I watched the first moon landing! -- I was only 11 months old, but my mother sat me on her to watch on our little black and white TV so that I could one day tell my grandchildren.....

Dan Szymborski

9:18

I was born in 1978

Jay Jaffe

9:19

Forgot Cole in my list. Odds might be higher than given here he is as of age 28 (1,336 K, 94 wins) moreso than advanced stats (23.4 bWAR).

David Laurila

9:19

I was called into the house to watch the moon landing.

Dan Szymborski

9:19

The tricky thing is I'm really not sure how the BBWAA will be considering pitchers in 15 years.

How many stat guys? How many people who are at least stat-adjacent and influenced by stats like WAR?

9:21

David and Jay, you both start voting next year, don't you?

David Laurila

9:21

Jay and I will have HoF votes soon.

9:22

I know we will cancel each other rout on at least one player, but I'm guessing we'll agree on most.

Dan Szymborski

9:22

FIve more years for me. People at ESPN tended to forget I existed so nobody there submitted me and I didn't have enough self-confidence to ask about membership myself; I was worried about rejection

Passan eventually told me stop being a wuss about the whole thing.

Hire Joe Morgan?

9:22

Oooh! Who's the disagreement?

Adam2

9:22

Who is the one you disagree on?

9:23

How disappointing will it be if MLB expands and the expansion teams' primary colors include blue or red?

Jay Jaffe

9:23

Yeah, David and I get our ballots for 2021

Dan Szymborski

9:23

Ugggh. Baseball's ultra-conservative palette

Now the Nationals, they have very good reasons to be red white and blue at least.

bosoxforlife

9:23

There are no negative votes so you can't negate another person's ballot.

Dan Szymborski

9:23

You essentially can

Since 75% is required. Any yes can be negated with three non votes.

Jay Jaffe

9:24

Dan beat me to it.

Lunar verLander

9:24

...could you imagine if there WERE negative votes on HOF ballots...?

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