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Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 2/7/22

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Ben Clemens

2:59

More game-speed guess which pitch is comin and react

And even some 3-D pitch visualization stuff

Will all help

Farhandrew Zaidman

2:59

Asked the same question to Kevin - What's your take on the so-called "Metaverse" and its potential impact on professional baseball?

Ben Clemens

3:00

Uh, pass

I think the metaverse is dumb, and that its best use is as a plot device in the Neal Stephenson classic "Snowcrash"

Bettsbellingercaruso

3:01

Have you seen the daily Mike Trout drawings on reddit?

Ben Clemens

3:01

Yeah, and they're wonderful

171

3:01

Conspiracy corner: the best framers are natural leftys who have better motor skills with their framing hand.

(I made all of this up and have done 0 research)

Ben Clemens

3:01

Whoa, that's cool

I mean, yeah, probably not provable

but I like it

I like almost any theory that lefties are good and useful

Roger

3:02

Do you think MLB actually introduces a way to stream local games within the next few years? There were talks about it at the end of last year and $20/month for JUST local sports seems reasonable, especially considering how many people are cutting the cord, but still are willing to pay for live sports. And those with even limited technical knowledge are just going to use a VPN unless leagues are willing to meet consumers where they are.

Ben Clemens

3:02

Yeah, well, the Marquee rate ain't it

$20/month for just hte Cubs, not other local sports, if I read it correctly

3:03

that's gonna be tough when I can pay 130 bucks and buy a VPN and go from there

for mlb.tv, i mean

I am curious to see what places come out with, though

Matt

3:03

In regard to potential extra revenue from expanded playoffs, Would TV contracts (ESPN,Fox...etc) have to be ripped up and renegotiated almost immediately? Or do they have language in place in anticipation that this could happen?

Ben Clemens

3:03

The ESPN one specifically has language around it

3:04

And it seems like they'd get the entire wild card round, so that might be it

Ryan

3:04

My grandfather would playfully admonish that any problem he faced was because of a broad society wide conspiracy against us left-handers

Ben Clemens

3:04

I got lefty scissors this year and can magically cut things now

My wife used to think i was just making up how hard it is to use regular scissors as a lefty

3:05

But now I'm just cutting like a champion, it's amazing

Ryan

3:05

What is your least favorite book/movie/etc. about baseball?

Ben Clemens

3:05

I'm trying to decide how spicy of a take I want to go with here

Dan

3:06

Always go spicy Ben

Ben Clemens

3:06

Field of Dream

Field of Dreams*

Just, super not into it

The Stranger

3:07

I would definitely pay $20/month to watch my local team. That was probably 80% of all the tv I watched when I had cable anyway.

Ben Clemens

3:07

Fair enough. I guess if you can strip out ESPN and still get network broadcasts and stuff, you can do an okay job of replicating live sports

chilly

3:08

following the redesign, is there still a link somewhere on the site that shows upcoming chats/times?

Ben Clemens

3:08

The Chat schedule is now on the right-hand scroll bar

3:09

And I think the 'currently chatting' thing still works

One moment, please, doing a quick tihng around the apartment

3:11

Alright, on second thought, that's the chat for today!

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