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Sheryl Ring
8:57
Would be hard to play baseball otherwise, Matt.
Hugh
8:57
@sheryl should we start a drinking game every time they cite RBIs?
Sheryl Ring
8:57
You'd die of liver failure.
AvatarDan Szymborski
8:57
Trent and Jeff Passan were  very ehlpful in getting me off my butt and asking to be in the BBWAA
JimTheCarpetLintGuy
8:57
Is ZiPS completely computer generated?
AvatarDan Szymborski
8:57
Yes, though I can TELL it to do something if I'm trying to run a specific scenario
jj
8:57
Sorry, don't know my stats history: what's Voros?
AvatarDan Szymborski
8:58
Voros McCracken. He essentially formulated the early theories that led to things like BABIP and FIP
Nate
8:58
Why the lower-case "i" in ZiPS?
AvatarDan Szymborski
8:58
So it looked like CHiPs
DeanAnna
8:58
ZIPS is artisanal. Its Dan with a calculator
AvatarDan Szymborski
8:58
but I didn't do the s with a lower case the first time I wrote it. Jaffe had already picked it up (this was like 2003) so it just stayed as ZiPS
larryv
8:58
Dan: How do you pronounce "Szymborski"? Uncertainty is mainly about the beginning
AvatarDan Szymborski
8:58
zim-BORE-skee
Dystopian Future
8:59
Is it sad that the thing I remember C Trent best for is when Brandon Phillips flew off the handle at him?
AvatarDan Szymborski
8:59
It WAS pretty funny
Jkim
8:59
Didi in CK2 would get the "gregarious" trait
CamdenWarehouse
8:59
He seems like one of the coolest cats in the beat game, which is why I throw light hearted shade. I wouldn't if he wasn't great.
Thic
8:59
Sure feels like there's not a huge difference in who starts for the Yankees. Tanaka, Severino, Sabathia, and Happ are all good options.
Matt
8:59
Any idea if we're going to get any more saber-casts? I have trouble believing that FOX would be open to splitting their audience, and not sure TBS has the strength of sister networks
AvatarDan Szymborski
8:59
Not sure
Sheryl Ring
8:59
I'd argue that Severino is a huge difference in terms of pure stuff
More margin for error
Sean Dolinar
9:00
FOX has before. I think they had a saber-cast on FS1 before.
Swayed by Sentiment
9:01
Emphasis on the bore
Matt
9:01
"Yankees dead last in turning double plays this year" I assume this is volume, because why would they know what a rate is?
Wireless Joe Jackson
9:01
Dan with a calculator?  That seems overly processed.  I want an all-natural abacus-fueled system.
Nate
9:01
Is it just me or were there a lot of fun breakout players this year? Nick Martini was top 3.
JimTheCarpetLintGuy
9:01
Dan, what's the origin of your last name?
Sheryl Ring
9:01
Oh yes. Max Muncy!
Jeoffry
9:01
How much damage will this game do to the usage of the opener strategy across MLB if Severino pitches a great game and the Yankees win?
Sheryl Ring
9:02
Teams are businesses who want to hold salaries down. The opener will survive. Remember - the Rays invented the thing, and they would have started Blake Snell in a WC game.
MikeM
9:02
“Severino is a Ferrari, and when you have a Ferrari in your garage — are you going to leave it in the garage for a big game?” - David Cone.  Thats why he is starting.  His ceiling is way higher than anyone else.
jonnyzuck
9:02
Severino is probably a top 5 pitcher in the AL, he's easily above the other Yankee SPs unless you heavily weigh his second half
AvatarDan Szymborski
9:03
szlachta family from szymbory. petty nobility (which didn't mean much in poland really). my dad's grandfather came over during the Polish-Soviet war in the early 20s
Shirtless George Brett
9:03
If you google Voros the picture that comes up is straight up terrifying. He looks like a serial killer.
AvatarDan Szymborski
9:03
We always tease him about that pic.
It was on his old ID when he was a security guard
LSmithfield
9:03
Speaking of broadcasts, what's MLB's rationale for having tomorrow's NLDS game 1 on MLBN only? Seems like a great way to not expand audience among young, cord-cutting millennials.
Sean Dolinar
9:03
I think it's the same idea why the NFL had Thursday night games on the NFL network.  I don't know if one LDS game will move the needle for millennials.  It's also probably because a network wouldn't pay more than $X for it.
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