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Matt Klentak

12:54

My phone battery sucks

LAXTONTO

12:54

Well once you have gone Cool Ranch, there aint no going back

Mike

12:54

In years past we've seen some free agents who sign late struggle for the remainder of the year. Is that likely to occur when every player starts his season late this year? Any way of knowing which players are most likely to be affected?

Dan Szymborski

12:54

I'm not sure; there doesn't appear, at least on its face, to be any real pattern on types of player

and in that case, they were coming back to leagues where everyone was playing. This time, everyone's in the same boat

LAXTONTO

12:55

My home is my office...

Dan Szymborski

12:55

I mean your workplace

95 readers! I hope you guys still come a lot so that there's a site to come back to!

Dbo

12:55

I LOST TRACK OF TIME AGAIN!

Yanks fan

12:55

Currently watching game 4 of the 2001 WS because no Opening Day--Ronan Tynan singing "God Bless America" is absolutely slaying. I miss baseball :/

Matt Klentak

12:55

What was more unlikely, baseball stopping mid spring training for a world wide pandemic or Khris Davis hitting .247 for 4 seasons in a row, over 2100 plate appearances ?

Dan Szymborski

12:55

Probably the pandemic

LAXTONTO

12:56

Have you ever used SAS Simulation Studio? Great for teaching/visualizing simulations

Dan Szymborski

12:56

I have not

trb

12:57

Will you make available a link to ZiPS splits file for use by Diamondmind Baseball?

Dan Szymborski

12:57

Yup

LAXTONTO

12:57

yep... and 0 on Vanity, high on the standard driven problem solving section... seems that this follows with my thinking. Quants score high on Self Sufficiency, Authority and Explotiveness and have little concenr for vanity or entitment.. This is differnt than those that fall into the Truly Narcissistic psychopath ranges that need Vanity, Entitlement or Exhibitionist areas to thrive.

Dan Szymborski

12:57

I have kind of an odd family

12:58

In my family, it wasn't success that was valued. Or money or fame or job title or even happiness or empathy.

12:59

My family, every member, has been raised with an almost slavish obsession to knowledge and *being right*. There's no higher accomplishment in my family is being right about something and someone else having to admit they're wrong to everyone.

My grandfather literally voted for the candidate in every election that he thought was smarter.

My mom, in an equally odd, but different, voting pattern, votes for the winner, like it's a quiz question

1:00

Not a lot of people were Nixon/Carter/Reagan/Bush/Clinton/Bush/Obama voters. 2016 was her first mistake.

I believe she's 100% in senators and house representatives too.

I know she's 100% in governors

sportznut

1:00

Have you released the spreadsheet yet with player's defensive range and ratings?

Dan Szymborski

1:00

I have not

Tim Tebow's Thunder Thighs

1:00

I had a cold can of this for breakfast while working from home. Satisfied my craving for both chili and a starch. Brilliant.

https://www.campbells.com/campbell-soup/chunky/chili-mac-beans-macaron...

Dan Szymborski

1:01

BUT WHY BEANS

LAXTONTO

1:01

That is the definition of a driven quant.. the internal motivation of being right or solving the problem is the true driving factor, the rest are jsut perks along the way

Dan Szymborski

1:01

I was surprised to rank as highly as it did on the authoritarian category

I don't want to RULE people. Just...errr...tell them they're dumb.

God that sounds awful

Dbo

1:01

I took the certified beer server exam this weekend and failed, I had years of practice and thought I would pass

You ate cold chili mac? Hope everything is alright in your world?

Dan Szymborski

1:02

Yeah, you're still allowed to use kitchen equipment

Dbo

1:02

Why are we talking about Poisson distributions? Bernoulli distributions are where its at

Gregg

1:02

Will the new Minor League advocacy group have any impact? Without any formal powers a la a union, I'm not sure what they can realistically hope to accomplish.

Dan Szymborski

1:02

Groups only have the power that they can demand through their leverage.

They have no leverage.

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