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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 1/6/22

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Guest

1:11

let's say you're in the mall and someone yells "DANNY!" do you turn around? what about with "DANIEL?"

Dan Szymborski

1:12

Only if it sounds like my mom or sister

There are only three living people who call me Danny: My mom, my sister, and my godfather Armin.

Armin is 96 so he's unlikely to be at a mall 500 miles from his house

1:13

The only living person who calls me Daniel is my mom when she's annoyed with me

Everyone also calls me Dan

Lark

1:13

What’s the worst thing you’ve ever eaten?

Dan Szymborski

1:13

century egg

But luckily, you can't accidentally eat one

Of things you can actually run into unknowingly

1:14

This lavender chocolate that tasted like absolute burning in my mouth. I think it was in a Whitman's or something similar

It was 25 years ago and I STILL can cringe and taste that awful acrid soaplike burning.

JasonM

1:14

Could you provide an guess as to what might have changed on Tatis between his preliminary projection you provided in the NL West Elegy and the one posted yesterday, it seems his WAR landed between the 60-70% of the preliminary.

Dan Szymborski

1:14

All the data wasn't in an processed yet

Kevbot034

1:14

Who is your favorite player in the game right now?

Dan Szymborski

1:15

Soto

Guest

1:15

The Guest insists upon a house feline status update.

Dan Szymborski

1:15

Justinian is on my lap (he usually is this time of day)

Mercutio is on the living room floor waiting for the sun to come to him. He has noticed that it's very cloudy

he HASNT

Constantine is in the spoon of the cat tree sleeping

1:16

and Cassiopeia is in one of the closets sleeping. Cassie picked on Constantine but he hit her back harder and she stormed off to closet

Bryan

1:16

Looking at that Cistulli article on the 2B class of 2014 makes me feel 100 years old. How is it possible that was published less than 8 years ago??

Adam

1:16

When you were a kid did you like math or writing better?

Dan Szymborski

1:17

I loved both. Writing probably a little more

Adam

1:17

Which do you find yourself saying in your head more often, Florida Marlins or Anaheim Angels? (California Angels?)

Dan Szymborski

1:17

florida marlins

Kip

1:17

Have you ever moved data from normal hard drive to SSD? If so, any software recommendations?

Dan Szymborski

1:17

I have, but never with software as far as I can tell

I generally use SSDs for OSs and most used programs

While I keep data on several redundant HDDs

Guest

1:18

You have any particular interest in the happenings of the James Webb Space Telescope?

Dan Szymborski

1:18

I'm not uninterested, but I haven't been paying attention

Adam

1:18

Which company/year had the best baseball card design?

Dan Szymborski

1:18

1972 Topps of course!

1:19

I really liked those bluish Fleer cards in the mid-80s that had the scouting reports and heat maps on the back

There was obviously no Statcast or FG then!

1:20

Adam

1:20

How many chats in a row without receiving a question about chili before you'd begin to wonder if something suspicious was going on?

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