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Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 9/15/20

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Ben Clemens

12:34

The most recent version is a turn-based tactical combat game that I really liked

With a bit of a campaign arc

Jon

12:34

Will FG do their own internal award votes for CY, MVP, ROY?

Ben Clemens

12:34

We have something in the pipeline, but probably not exactly that

We'll have awards of some type though, I believe

Jon

12:35

Better future: Belinger or Yelich?

Ben Clemens

12:35

probably bellinger just for age reasons

But if you're saying who will be better next year I'll take Yelich

I think his floor is higher

Scotty

12:35

Josh Bell... man.... what the heck happened?

12:35

Is Josh Bell finally back?

Ben Clemens

12:36

I haven't looked into him too much

But he is THUMPING the last few weeks

12:37

This is simplistic but when his strikeouts started to come down it seems like things have worked out

Chaddy

12:37

Do you like "social deduction" games like Secret Hitler or One Night Ultimate Werewolf? Any favorites?

Ben Clemens

12:37

I like them okay, my favorite is a game whose name I don't know

I call it the ghost game

I will try to quickly lay out the rules but I haven't played in a bit

12:38

the way it works is that you have a group of six (ideally) players, though it scales up well

Two get the 'A' word

Two get 'B' words, two different words that are one degree of separation away from the 'A' word

Two get a number, which is the number of syllables in the 'A' word, and they're ghosts

12:39

So for example the A word might be monkey, b words 'see' and 'business', and the number 2

The way the game works is everyone goes around in a circle and says a word

and then you vote someone off

the ghosts win if they either vote all the others off or can guess the A word

It's fun!

Also I've heard among us is great

Mike Hawk

12:39

Does Cy-Hyung Kim become the first Korean to win the CY? Should he be in the discussion?

Ben Clemens

12:40

Sadly I do not think he should be in the discussion

Heck of a hot streak, and he's been better than expected, but those strikeout rates, and the wild strand rate, and it's only 28 innings...

He might get a vote or two but not too many

SteelThunder

12:40

Sorta like Mafia?

Ben Clemens

12:40

Yeah Mafia with extra steps

12:41

When will the "we were wrong about the Betts trade" articles come out? Seems like the Red Sox did exactly the right thing.

Ben Clemens

12:41

Haha yeah they're not coming out

Because are you having fun watching the Red Sox this year?

Of course not!

The Red Sox could have tried to be good and instead they decided to be rich

I don't think I'm going to start thinkingn that's cool and advisable anytime soon

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