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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 2/25/19

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BenZ

1:08

Does any data from Spring Training (stats, velocities, playing time, etc) figure into Zips?

Dan Szymborski

1:08

Davis

1:08

Dan- I'm being serious here, everyone hates their own voices. Yours is completely fine!

Dan Szymborski

1:08

Complicating it is that I'm an excitable fellow and as I get excited, my voice gets higher and higher and faster and faster.

Like Judge Doom

fangraphs reader

1:08

Do you feel unusual usage patterns for player (ie tandem starters) cause your system to overrate/underrate players, or is the error bars on the projections so big it's a non-isssue?

Dan Szymborski

1:09

It's possible. I'm not sure if I have to or how to deal with openers

Dorf on Foosball

1:09

What makes Dan sad?

Dan Szymborski

1:09

Incompetence

Partially a product of how I was raised

1:10

The golden trait that pretty much everyone in my family appreciates above all others is being *smart*

1:11

If I murdered someone and got caught, my family would probably look down on me more for the INCOMPETENCE than the murder itself.

1:12

It's quite possible that my entire family consists of high-functioning low-grade sociopaths. Myself included.

kevinthecomic

1:12

The union shouldn't be mad at the players for taking *below* market value extensions, the players should be mad at the union for sleeping through the last contract negotiations and sidling them with a system where they are cheap when young/productive and can't get paid when old/less useful.

Dan Szymborski

1:12

The trophy is from me

YKnotDisco?!

1:12

If I had the talent I would paint you a picture of your cats looking out the window at the Skyline TM of your city on a cold Chili winters day. Each snowflake would be in the shape of a bean. Different beans, of course. Unrelated -- if Jeff would have left FG after his last Friday chat (two Friday's ago) his post count would have equaled Babe Ruth's hit total. Much like Ruth falling short of 3000 (2873), I can see Jeff having no problem be elected in by his voters.

Mike

1:13

Fangraphs rule change: 20-second clock on Fangraphs chats?

Dan Szymborski

1:13

That mostly benefits me, because unlike those other writers wedded to concepts of "intelligent" and "answering the question," I just type in whatever flows out of my giant head

Gub Gub

1:13

If you stacked a taco salad bowl on top of another taco salad bowl, so where the top bowl is resting inside the bottom bowl, and filled the area in-between with a delicious brown gravy....is that a sandwich?

Dan Szymborski

1:13

Yes.

Alex

1:14

In his rankings, Derek Carty had the Yankees with the 2nd best rotation in baseball (only after CLE). Too aggressive considering Paxton's injury history or do you like it?

Dan Szymborski

1:14

Probalby a little aggressive but not much

Slew

1:14

Dan, please rank in order of descending insufferability: music snobs, alcohol snobs, art snobs, food snobs

Dan Szymborski

1:14

alcoholsnobs, art snobs, food snobs, music snobs

kevinthecomic

1:14

Dan, don't sweat all 3 Marlins fans hating you

Matt

1:14

What do you think about Manfred's proposal to include nunchucks in baseball?

Dan Szymborski

1:15

just as long as both the catcher and the runner get them

LFC Mike

1:15

If you leave Fangraphs we will kidnap your cats, make you use dial up internet and for the final threat...force you eat Sky Line Chili for lunch everyday for the rest of your then miserable life.

Dan Szymborski

1:15

This is cruel

John

1:15

Prediction for how Blizz will nerf Baku and Genn?

Dan Szymborski

1:15

THey won't

The Franchy(ze)

1:15

Also Hanley Ramirez is still listed at SS!?!?! on his FB player page

Dan Szymborski

1:16

I think SS!?!?!?! is the best description of what his position is

Matt

1:16

Don't listen to CamdenWarehouse, Dan. Feel free to sell yourself short.

Dave

1:16

Hermione Granger would have been a fantastic engineer.

The Franchy(ze)

1:16

'zip' can be an insult in italian circles referring to more recent immigrants

Michigan Dan Szymborski

1:16

What did you say, mate?

Dan Szymborski

1:16

YOU HAVE NO CHANCE TO SURVIVE MAKE YOUR TIME

Coach Warble

1:16

DAN! STAY HYDRATED! ITS IMPORTANT TO STAY HYDRATED!

LFC Mike

1:16

For educational purposes only..."Zips" were what U.S. Soldiers called the enemy in the Vietnam War....short for zipperhead...again for educational purposes only....

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