JotCast | Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 7/6/20

Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 7/6/20

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Ben Clemens

3:20

Liek 75% of their flavors are not good

But the ones that use caramel and peanut butter are almost invariably great

We're partial to the non-dairy PB and Cookies flavor

Sam

3:21

Derek your take on ice cream is bad and you should feel bad (insert zoidberg meme here)

Ben Clemens

3:21

Now Derek's the popular one

Kramer

3:21

Back to the bar game...bowling doesn’t count (because then minigolfBut I forgot Golden Tee! That’s a great one!

Ben Clemens

3:21

Yeah that's fair -- bowling is mini golf basically

Those are the two I'd most want to play, to be clear

But Golden Tee is a true bar game

And I'd take that wayyyy over foostball

I'm really bad at it but I'd love to be good at it

Buck Hunter counts too although I've never played it

Photo Hunt, not so much

3:22

There are a decent number of bars here with Killer Queen setups but I'm not fancy enough for that

Also the actual bar game I'd want to be best at might be speed quarters, because bouncing a quarter into a shot glass is just tremendously satisfying

3:23

But that's more of a drinking game and less a bar game

3:24

Dunking and throw 95 are comfortably ahead of the field in the random sports skill game

Makes sense to me. I'm down on throwing 95 but it's probably the skill that could most be used in your actual life, just go be great at men's league

3:25

Although I guess drive 300 counts, you'd be sick at your local course

Kramer

3:25

Best outdoor/backyard game then. Just a few Off the top of my head...washers, cornhole, boche ball, that ladder game with ropes that have golf balls tied to them, giant connect four

Ben Clemens

3:25

At our wedding, we had a nice grassy area for the cocktail hour

So we set up cornhole and ladder golf (the rope golf ball game)

We didn't even consider other games

So I'd put those 1/2, but a lot of that is because they're so portable

3:26

Which is a big game when it comes to a wedding

It wasn't exactly in our backyard, b/c we don't have a yard

If you have a nice space for it, Bocce goes on the list for sure

I would take cornhole over ladder golf, but I'm better at ladder golf

3:27

Oh, and giant connect four, nah, I'm off it

Gimme Giant Jenga any dya

horseshoes are like a 20 on the 20-80 scale, in case anyone's wondering

Sam

3:27

For driving 300, do you have precision or are you just hitting the ball a mile with no control? Also isn't the better golf skill being a great putter so you could dominate at mini golf?

Ben Clemens

3:27

Presumably not much control, but also not literally zero

3:28

And I personally would vastly prefer being good at putting

But I'm not a golfer, so take everything I say with a grain of salt

Derek

3:29

Driving 300 with little control still helps - I'd rather be 300 yards away from the tee and in a terrible position after 1 stroke than 300 yards away from the tee in a terrible position after 3 or 4 or 5 strokes like I usually am!

Ben Clemens

3:29

That's kind of my thinking

I follow MGL on twitter, and he's like an even split of baseball, politics, and golf

I've picked up on some of the golf stuff more or less passively

3:30

And it seems like people just vastly underrate how valuable hitting the ball a long way is

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