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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 2/11/21

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Franchy Fries

12:47

Calm down Franchyise, I'm Franchy's biggest fan!

Guest

12:48

is MJF the best heel working in the business today?

Dan Szymborski

12:48

I would say so

12:49

I do think we have a shortage of good heels though

Jeff Cork

12:49

I play as you too in create-a-characters

Dan Szymborski

12:49

LIES

murraygd13

12:49

With news that MLB plans to "deaden" the balls this year and more teams controlling the storage condition of the balls, how does ZiPS handle this information? Or plans to just ignore the news as noise?

Dan Szymborski

12:49

It doesn't

Guest

12:50

Are you fatter than Don Baylor circa 1988 or less fat?

Dan Szymborski

12:50

I'm a little bit thinner than Bartolo

Essentially, I'm an obese guy, but if I went on The Biggest Loser, I would still be crazy-skinny in comparison

12:51

You woudln't fit in my pants, but I'm still a one airplane-seater

(with stock seatbelt)

You wouldn't want to go jogging with me, but I don't need a Rascal.

That's my approximate level of fattity.

bayfan

12:52

Does Susan Slusser replacing Henry Schulman on the Giants beat mean Bay Area baseball media are getting better?

Dan Szymborski

12:52

I like Hank. Susan would upgrade almost everyone, including me!

A Boy Named Yu

12:52

If I'm eating a chili covered soybean burger, does the chili cease to be chili when I take a bite and the beans mix with the chili in my mouth?

Dan Szymborski

12:53

No, food structure only counts until it passes your teethline

EVERYTHING becomes stew after all

and then...worse

Brett

12:53

Might have just missed it somewhere - do you know when Prospect Week kicks off? Thanks Dan!

Dan Szymborski

12:53

MONDAY!

Uh oh, I hope that wasn't a secret

Reader's Digest

12:53

About time for me to dig into some baseball books to get excited for the upcoming season. You ever read (or hear of) The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop.? Novel by Ryan Coover about one guy's made-up league, sorta proto-fantasy-baseball.. been thinking about it lately. Read it years ago.

Dan Szymborski

12:54

I'm familiar with the book (though Robert!) but I've never gotten around to it

Guest

12:54

will a competitive 3rd party *ever* take hold in America to the extent they were around in the 18th/early 19th centuries? Or is the 2-party system so ingrained that we're just going to ride that out

Dan Szymborski

12:54

It's too ingrained

12:55

The one thing the two major parties agree on whole-heartedly is perpetuating the structure of the two-party system

Personally, I don't think parties should appear on ballots at all and on computer screens, order of candidates should be randomized per voter. I consider party affiliation as a form of advertisement.

Fat chance of ever passing that everywhere

brad penny for your thoughts

12:56

do you ever wear a hat that has a PRESS placard on it?

Dan Szymborski

12:56

I have not

Maybe I should

Maybe I'll stick a Press square in my trilby and wear it to a game

But I think people might not think I'm being ironic but instead being dickish

12:57

like ha HA, I am a writer man! I am more important than you proles!