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Dan Szymborski

12:47

Since I'm simply going to decline from here on out, I need to start taking care of these issues *before* they happen

12:48

I'd like to have 30 more years where I can get a lot of good work done, and once my brain starts to really start to fade, I hope for a relatively quick end at tha tpoint

Thomas

12:48

What do you expect out of Jordan Walker next year?

Dan Szymborski

12:48

little

Max

12:48

Most surprising transaction this offseason? I know, its early.

Dan Szymborski

12:48

I was actually surprised Cease got THAT much

even with the deferred money bringing it down

mmddyyyy

12:48

How many people are in the chat right now?

Dan Szymborski

12:49

THis has been a relatively small chat, it peaked at around 150

Guest

12:49

How confident are you that Schwellenbach will be able to pick up where he left off before his weird injury?

Dan Szymborski

12:49

Mild-to-moderate

Rob

12:49

The French Dip was invented in LA, either at Phillipe's or Cole's (both claimed it) and Phillipe's is still operating. But if you do get a Pastrami sandwich in LA, you have to get the one at Langer's. A NYT food critic even said that it was better than any pastrami in NYC.

Dan Szymborski

12:50

I did have a Langer's from Goldbelly - my sister got me a year of sandwiches a few CHristmases ago

was delighted to get a roast pork from John's Roast Pork. I already was well familiar with their roast pork, but it had been awhile since I had been in Philly

12:51

I like Dalessandro's for cheesesteak

Guest

12:51

There should be a team in Hartford to bleed some fans from Boston as well as the NY teams. Is Vegas too far to do the same to the LA teams?

Dan Szymborski

12:51

I think Vegas is too far

I don't think the A's will do that well in Vegas. Baseball isn't an EVENT sport in the way football is

Be Better

12:52

When a team like the Pirates say they will be aggressive in the offseason, after the laughter subsides, how should we think about that? I mean, given your Zips projections, does adding 20mil to that roster really matter? Would 50?

Dan Szymborski

12:52

It COULD in the right areas

I'd rather the Pirates spend $30 million a year on one dude

than $6 million each on five random veterans

GA Blood

12:52

Gotta go with Staten Island for a 3rd NYC team to maximize the obnoxiousness

Dan Szymborski

12:52

I am a fan of trolling

we did have a fun staten island even back in 2016

12:53

I was still with ESPN, and the staten island yankees did a sabermetrics day, and David brought the whole FG crowd in

War2D2

12:53

re: A Christmas Carol: What has become a tradition for me is to listen to the audio book of Hugh Grant’s reading of it on Christmas Eve as I put out the presents for the kids. It’s like 2hrs long. I highly recommend it.

Little known fact

12:53

Dickens' original title was "A Tale of Two Sandwiches" and was, in fact, about Los Angeles.

New UK fan

12:53

Re the 26 current free agents question: Is your 26th free agent a 6th starter or the fourth man on your bench?

Dan Szymborski

12:53

Would probably be a starter

John B

12:53

You said zips had a mix of bwar and fwar in the past. Is it still 50-50 or is it moving towards one or the other metrics?

Dan Szymborski

12:54

It's still conceptually in the middle. I've done a lot of work in modeling ERA/FIP/team D interactions, and ZiPS will still give a player some credit if they ERA below D for long enough

Idiotic Failson

12:54

I was just reading that AZ was looking at Pete Fairbanks, and that sort of tangentially mentioned that Lawlar was blocked in the infield. That got me to looking at their rotation and...woof...could the Yankees pry Lawlar away with some combination of Schlittler/Volpe/some other parts?

Dan Szymborski

12:54

I think Arizona will ask for a LOT

Idiotic Failson

12:55

If they put a team in Staten Island I hope Arte Moreno buys it and calls it the New York Angels of Staten Island

Dan Szymborski

12:55

The New York Angels of Anaheim of Staten Island

War2D2

12:55

I just turned 50 in September. I don’t have a need for GLP-1, but I was in awful physical condition for a guy that used to be relatively athletic vs. my peers. I joined a gym this year, and I have to say that I strongly recommend it. I’ve had issues in the past with not really committing, but something about hitting a half century made me more serious about it. Plus, with age comes discipline, and waking in with the knowledge that “yeah, the next 60min will suck, but then it’ll be over and my back won’t hurt when I get out of bed in the morning” is a huge motivator.

Dan Szymborski

12:56

Yeah, the problem is that I've never really been really incentivized to keep weight down

I've always had a strong build with it as I got it from my dad (he was 6'5, 230 pounds of muscle, and was in the navy)

12:58

Even as a kid who played for the travel team in little league at 2B, I was a bit overweight for my age and never fast. I was good defensively because I had very good reflexes and heedlessly charged into every hit ball

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