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Jason

10:33

Sock Twins sounds like the name of a A+ team somewhere about halfway between Chicago and Minneapolis

5 Run Homer

10:33

The medical clinic my mom goes to still uses only fax machines. My mom isn’t yet 50

Dan Szymborski

10:33

The Dubuque Sock Twins?

Ben Clemens

10:34

Not to inject some reality into this delightful nonsense, but there's been some really good reporting on how the medical industry continues to use fax machines to transfer records despite robust attempts to change it.

Geoff Williams

10:34

A trailing pinch runner up by 4, with 2 outs?

Dan Szymborski

10:34

I think it's against some unwritten rule that allows pitchers to apply violence or something

Matt

10:34

If you purchased those socks in a store, then they were likely mass produced meaning that your sock family is actually quite large. You should see if any of them are super rich and you can get you some of that family money.

Lunar verLander

10:34

They used fax machines in Air Force One, and if it's good enough for President Harrison Ford, it's good enough for me.

Ben Clemens

10:35

The weird part is that I hand-knitted them.

Dan Szymborski

10:35

I have a pair of socks with blood stains that my girlfriend calls my "blood socks." I usually put one on when I cut my foot on something.

Jordan

10:35

Ben are you being forced to adult against your will?

Dan Szymborski

10:35

You hand-knitted a pair for MIke too? That's really nice

10:35

Yandy Biceps should go up with a boxing glove like Donkey Kong in Mario baseball. I bet it would go 500 feet and an exit velo of infinity

Ben Clemens

10:35

So far in my life I've been quite good at avoiding adulting

And Dan, that's the weird part- I didn't.

Makes you wonder how he got them.

Dan Szymborski

10:36

I'm very bad at adulting.

Ben Clemens

10:36

I traded in a real office job I commuted to for sitting at home in my pajamas, writing about baseball, taking care of my dog, and playing video games.

So uh.

Dan Szymborski

10:36

I've used a Pyrex measuring cup as a drinking glass because all the glasses in my house were dirty and in my office. And I was already in my *40s* at the time.

Cam

10:37

K Davis and other players who frequently pull the ball on the ground are easier to defend thus putting a cap on their BA. Zips accounts for this in the projection, right? I’m guessing yes

Dan Szymborski

10:37

It'll be part of the BABIP model

Fangraph's Lurker

10:37

I used shot glasses as measuring cups in college. 8 oz is one cup

Si, Pues Wow

10:37

Dan Szysmzszszs, what's your favorite number and why?

Matt

10:38

Sock Twins with Schilling, Dan. Be careful, he might come looking for some money. I hear he's in a bit of trouble.

Dan Szymborski

10:38

33. Becuase it can also be EE, MM, and WW.

Ben Clemens

10:38

Gross, that sock is all bloody.

10:38

I work for a 3 letter Gov group and we *still* do faxing. Most of the older folks do math with one of those calculators with receipts on top

Dan Szymborski

10:38

Mike does have the weakest tie of the three broadcasters.

Ben Clemens

10:39

At my last job a third of the people had math PhD's and a third used calculators from the 1980's to do basic math.

I was in the last third that was neither.

hildebeast21

10:39

I don't think deep-thinking and mental arithmetic need to go hand in hand

Dan Szymborski

10:39

My sister *still* hasn't gotten around to replacing the TI-92 of mine she borrowed and broke when she was in college.

Ben Clemens

10:39

Yeah but the math PhD's mostly did math in Excel.

LFC Mike

10:39

HP12c ... nothing better!

Ben Clemens

10:40

Indeed. I hate the thing but people swear by it.

Dan Szymborski

10:40

The other analysts are mean to me for using Excel.

Ben Clemens

10:40

Like at all? Or to the exclusion of R/Python?

10:41

Those seem very different.

Dan Szymborski

10:41

I have a lot of addins. And when it's something it doesn't have, I use Statistica, which I paid for like a grown ass man.

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