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Dan Szymborski

2:22

For a passing score with my name, you just need a z, and m, and some spelling of ski/sky and you're fine.

Jay Jaffe

2:23

@RiverAveBlues His name is Louis cefarino. Stop the stupid s***. This team is playing 19 games and 17 days they're not going to win every one of them. And they're pitching is going to get stretched chill out

Josh R

2:23

How much does everyone hate both TBS and Fox postgame crews? They both just sit or stand around laughing at each other. Do people actually like this. I switch over to MLB network immediately after these games.

Dan Szymborski

2:24

I'm kinda over the whole pregame/postgame show thing. Just not much value for me anymore, as arrogant as that sounds.

Jay Jaffe

2:24

I quite enjoyed the TBS one last night. if Pedro Martinez is talking about pitching, I'm listening

Dan Szymborski

2:24

I totally missed the Cefarino tweet. That's even better than the guy who told me my fassad was broken.

stever20

2:24

also on next years rules.... for the playoffs, is it going to be 26 man rosters? I know that's what Mar-Aug is and then 28 in September.

Dan Szymborski

2:24

I actually have no idea about playoffs.

Jay Jaffe

2:24

i don't watch them closely but we had that one on in the background. I do like the fact taht they're not all old white men and that Pete Rose isn't doing them anymore

RandyMarsh

2:25

I love Pedro as a postgame analyst.

Ben Clemens

2:25

Pedro is the best.

RandyMarsh

2:25

But no postgame show is as great as Inside the NBA - their chemistry is great, EJ is great at controlling Barkley to not go too crazy and it's like you're just w your friends joking about the game that happened

Dan Szymborski

2:25

I get more out of NBA postgame shows since I'm not a basketball expert.

Ben Clemens

2:25

I text my friends pictures of a $20 dollar fillup of gas frequently.

2:26

Shaq is such a gem on that show.

HOF Voter

2:26

Jay, I read an article that ranked active HOF players and the author had Verlander as the top pitcher and dinged Kershaw for having "only" three CYAs. How uninformed is that opinion on a scale of 1 to you've gotta be effing kidding me?

Logan

2:26

It took me longer than I'm willing to admit to figure out "Cefarino" = "Severino"

Dan Szymborski

2:27

People on Twitter think I made up the names of the communities I grew up in near Baltimore: Timonium, Lutherville, Cockeysville

stever20

2:27

whether you like the show or not- it was great to see Big Papi there today.

Dan Szymborski

2:27

Healthy Ortiz is an 80. Such a weird case.

Ben Clemens

2:28

With Travis d'Arnaud up, it's always worth mentioning that his Players Weekend nickname is Little D.

Interesting choice.

Dan Szymborski

2:29

By the way, our friend, former Royals pitcher, and all-around awesome guy Bob Tufts passed away this morning.

Jay Jaffe

2:29

oh man

2:30

That's a heartrbreaker. I didn't know Bob except through Twitter but we had some good conversations about early '80s Pacific Coast League baseball (he played for Rocky Bridges, who was quite a character) and the MLBPA

RandyMarsh

2:30

Nothing beats Rich Hill's nuckname: D Mountain

Ben Clemens

2:31

I'm going to run out and grab lunch quickly: this game started before my sandwich place of choice opened, unfortunately.

Derek

2:32

Dan, I grew up in south central PA - names of towns in PA and MD are just the strangest. Yocumtown is another of my favorites

Dan Szymborski

2:32

Bob was very active in old Baseball Think Factory. He was one of the people that really encouraged me in the profession and he gave me a lot of early contacts.

Jay Jaffe

2:33

Is Yocumtown where they do Tommy John surgeries that Dr. James Andrews can't get to?

Dan Szymborski

2:33

Without his support and encouragement, I don't know if I would have had the guts to stick it through in the industry ten years ago.

Jay Jaffe

2:33

That's awesome, Dan. I did not know that.

Dan Szymborski

2:34

I'll be back in about 5 minutes, I need to step out for some air.

Fire Ken Tremendous

2:35

Does Fangraphs still have a ranking of team's radio broadcasters? I need to know whether I should select the Tampa or Houston feed on At Bat.

Jay Jaffe

2:35

Not that I know of but I haven't been here THAT long. Both have good TV crews; I'd take my chances with either's radio crew on that basis alone

Vin Scully

2:36

What are the chances of Cole to the Dodgers this offseason?

Jay Jaffe

2:36

Given this front office, I'm skeptical they want to invest another $200 million like that, and they have some very good starting pitching already. More likely they spend $60-80M to retain Ryu

2:37

(and I do think he gets more than $200 million. just throwing that figure out there for order-of-magnitude purposes)

Cito's Mustache

2:37

I initially read Ben's tweet as "sandwich palace". Now I wish I had my choice of palace to choose from for lunch.

Jay Jaffe

2:37

All future chats should be held at the FanGraphs Sandwich Palace

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