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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 3/25/21

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Dan Szymborski

12:57

Appa Yip Yip

12:57

If it's not in a corn tortilla it's not a taco

Dan Szymborski

12:57

Now we're getting into structure vs. ingredient issues

12:58

I'm in the top corner

Same here

Tim Tebow's Thunder Thighs

12:59

Corn tortillas are useless if not doubled up. If you don't have to double up a corn tortilla, your filling is lacking.

Appa Yip Yip

12:59

I'm ingredient chaotic for tacos. Spicy peanut chicken?

Hank Scorpio

12:59

Dan, are you bombing Italy or France?

Dan Szymborski

12:59

Nobody ever says italy

The Stranger

12:59

Disagree on the corn tortilla requirement. I’ve had very authentic Mexican food truck tacos with flour tortillas.

economist

12:59

sorry did not mean to be condescending -- this has been a fascination for me back since when dave cameron used to write about marginal cost per win. always dreamed of writing the article, realized I just don't have time and figured I might as well pass the idea off to folks who might use it

Dan Szymborski

1:00

It might be something interesting to explore

but not really just for valuation

1:01

I think an actual econometrician who specializes in this branch of game theory would be able to come up with something better than I am.

I was a math/econ undergrad guy. I'm not a professor, I have no doctorate, and by nature of my job, I'm a generalist.

Nor am I particularly smart.

1:02

I'm basically just a dumbass writer who has a moderately useful secondary skill set for his job

RotoRichie

1:02

Since you do sometimes address roto questions, are the West Coast pitchers' parks relatively OK for the hitters actually early in the season, when it's cold back East and Midwest? Or maybe Santa Anna wind patterns make them worse? No one ever addresses this, and it'd sure be useful to know.

Dan Szymborski

1:02

I don't think it's a big enough effect to change opinions in most cases

Dan Fan

1:02

Are you going to to do your "Most Indispensable" piece soon?

Dan Szymborski

1:02

Yeah probably early in the season and the first big injuyr!

Cat Latos

1:03

What do my cat friends do?

Dan Szymborski

1:03

Lazy day for cats

1:04

Mercutio was roughhousing with Justinian before I came down for chat but Justinian's sleeping on the office couch right now

Constantine was chirping at some birds outside the kitchen window

and Cassie was asleep at the top of the cat tree

Tim Tebow's Thunder Thighs

1:04

In your mind, at what point do non-legume ingredients disqualify a dish as chili? Is corn acceptable? Mushrooms? Seaweed? How about if it's served over rice?

Dan Szymborski

1:04

NONE

economist

1:05

I think you're too down on yourself, I think your stuff is pretty f-ing cool! (Also, you get paid to write about baseball, while I don't which is why I don't make the time to write about it.)

Dan Szymborski

1:05

Everyone should know who they are and who they are not.

I have strong points, but I'm also perfectly at piece with my weak ones.

In essence, this is the basic challenge of life, is it not?

1:06

One of our final life goals is answering the question "Is it OK to have been me?"

Mark

1:06

I was pretty surprised by the ZIPS (and other systems') projections of Pache's defensive value. Any idea what's going on there?

Dan Szymborski

1:06