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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 4/23/20

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Kim Wexler's T-shirt

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Which team has more hidden upside -- Angels or White Sox?

Dan Szymborski

12:43

White Sox

tonyp

12:43

Dan which state would you liberate first and why?

Dan Szymborski

12:43

Ohio because I live there

Kim Wexler's T-shirt

12:43

Have you affixed the name "Digital Dandy" to anything?

Dan Szymborski

12:43

I have not

Kim Wexler's T-shirt

12:43

For a comedy, how about "Bad Shortstop"?

Insert Clever Name Here

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If you're referring to bad contracts as big and prohibitive, you're basically describing "Twisted Farhan Zaidi: The Movie".

Dan Szymborski

12:43

I'm just mad that they didn't call me for the Saved by the Bell update series.

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In which Zack Morris is the governor.

See, I'd do it *half* dark.

Have half the episode be bayside high hijinks

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while the other half violent political thriller, having the Zack governor scenes being a kind of House of Cards type show.

So you go straight from wacky nerds at the max to Zack having an environmental commissioner drowned

Jack

12:46

Hello! Did Kris Bryant peak in 2016?

Dan Szymborski

12:46

It's certainly possible. More players peak early than people think

Jeff

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Does Theo Epstein have any shot at catching Andrew Friedman historically?

Dan Szymborski

12:46

Not sure I understand the Q

Insert Clever Name Here

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And heavy disagree with Billy Beane re: turkey chili. It can be a bit tricky to get it right, but it absolutely can be done well.

Alex

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What incentive has been provided to teams to not cheat going forward? If you were a Team President of a competitive team, what would stop you from allowing your players and coaches to break the rules knowing that at worst you might have a cough up a draft pick or fire some person low on the totem pole?

Dan Szymborski

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Draft picks is pretty serious, that' slike a $20 million loss

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I'd want the cheating to be effective

Dbo

12:47

How much of a disaster is the NFL draft going to be tonight?

Dan Szymborski

12:47

I think it'll be fine

Billy Beane

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TBH, an actual good dark baseball movie would be about Josh Gibson. I don't know whether he ever made any attempt to play in the bigs (there doesn't seem to have been much time in trying during his lifetime) but if you show him, maybe Use the Larry Doby quote about him being heartbroken to make him a very depressed lead character who dies young. IT could be good!

Dbo

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Relax Alex, cheating isn’t worth it just to get a piece of metal

Insert Clever Name Here

12:47

Also, quite a few bowling alleys here in Georgia are staying closed to be on the safe side, so might not be that great of an option.

Matt Klentak

12:47

What should my approach on Tinder be? Building foundational small talk for months? Holding all conversations until this opens back up?

Dan Szymborski

12:48

Don't look at me, most of my human relationships have an undercurrent of low-key hostility

Joe

12:48

Since there's no more meat and we live in the end times, is it acceptable to call chili with beans chili

Dan Szymborski

12:48

No, chili would just be exctinct

extinct

Insert Clever Name Here

12:48

Actually, perfect team to make that horror movie would be the Rockies. Partly due to how they get out of the contracts, partly to see the Rockies front office at work on a day-to-day basis.

Dbo

12:48

Dan, not to get political but did you see Mark Warner’s tuna melt? The man uses an obscene amount of mayo and two slices of cheese

Dan Szymborski

12:48

I don't really care for canned tuna

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and mixing cheese and fish kinda turns my stomach