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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 1/28/19

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Dan Szymborski

12:37

I have not, I find the data not as voluminous as I would like for that approach

But I'm sure people have (like PECOTA)

12:38

Are you trying to break the record for most responses in a chat per hour? You are responding at a breakneck pace.

Dan Szymborski

12:38

I tend to respond quickly since my responses are uniformly terrible.

Billy Beane

12:38

Dan, how is life?

Dan Szymborski

12:38

I preferred Quaker Oat Squares

I used to trade one of my Ecto Coolers to Pat Fitzsimmons for his Quaker Oat Squares he had every day

12:39

Dump them in a carton of milk and boom, breakfast for lunch

I would request two Ecto Coolers a day with packed lunch - you could snag a lot with those

12:40

Also valuable commodities were Fruit Roll-Ups and Shark Bites

Queen Ayrenn

12:40

Is there any chance you revisit ESO? It's become a really great game since they horrible beta days!

Dan Szymborski

12:40

Maybe at some point. It's hard to find MMO room.

12:41

I have FFXIV, WOW, and GW2 rotating generally depending on who has the most recent material

Billy Beane

12:41

Let's say you were going to make chili tonight to warm up in the cold. What's the recipe look like?

Dan Szymborski

12:41

Finely chopped steak. Chili peppers. Seasoning.

Rox Fan

12:41

Bridich needs to make haste and package Desmond with a couple of prospects to move that salary off the books in order to extend Arenado. Right?

Dan Szymborski

12:41

Just release Desmond

Billy Beane

12:41

Wait... Dan... All of ZiPS is in Excel? I don't know whether to be more impressed or horrified. That thing must crash like every 6, seconds.

Dan Szymborski

12:42

They're GB-sized Excel files.

And it uses way too many PC resources for what Excel does.

It shouldn't need the 3930k with 32 GB in my work PC, but it makes it work.

12:43

I've used as much as 25 GB or RAM on my main rig for mysql things (I have an 8700k with 32 GB of RAM)

NotBurtReynolds

12:43

Inspired by a new friend, I've decided to attempt the bacon-rangoon...Do you think I should go with a bacon 'wrapper' with just cream cheese inside? Or add crab for the full crab-acon-rangoon?

E.L.

12:43

Zaidi seems confident he can still get OF help this offseason, but other than Harper, is there anyone genuinely helpful left on the market?

Dan Szymborski

12:43

I think a trade more likely

Dbo

12:43

Dan, whats the appropriate distance that I should stand from the urinal? I think toes should be 12 inches from the wall

Dan Szymborski

12:44

It depends on your flow level. You want to avoid splashback.

But also have sufficient closeness for the final handshake if you're over 35 or so.

I can't believe I just wrote this stuff in a FanGraphs chat.

Matt

12:44

Was really hoping the "J" in JA Happ stood for Jason. That would have been the icing on the cake. Alas.

Pete

12:44

How would you handle the "Where will/should Senzel play? " question?

Dan Szymborski

12:44

Next year I go Senzel 3B, Suarez LF, Winker RF

12:45

Honestly, if the Reds go with Kemp as the cost of having Puig, I rather have Senzel 3B, Suarez LF, Winker RF than Suarez 3B, Kemp LF, Puig RF

Matt

12:45

I find it fascinating to look at peoples' last names to trace back the employment of their ancestors. For example, Andrew Miller's ancestors likely crushed grain. And Brent Honeywell's ancestors likely owned and operated a natural ground source of honey.

Dan Szymborski

12:45

Brad Brach is a candy heir

Matt

12:46

PECOTA is a person?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

Dan Szymborski

12:46

The secret sauce is Bill Pecota's blood