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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 4/23/20

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Sam

12:50

Is vegetarian chili truly chili or just a thick vegetable soup?

Dan Szymborski

12:50

It's soup

and also a lie

12:51

Why try to make vegetables look like meat? You don't see meat eaters trying to make salad that looks like salad but is 100% MEAT

Billy Beane

12:51

Klentak, you gotta do a romantic first date where you order the gal something from amazon, like indomie stir fry ramen, and a bouquet of flower pens, teach her how to cook it via video chat, and then watch the same movie on netflix.

Dan Szymborski

12:51

I love indomie ramen!

tonyp

12:51

More articles like the Eric Davis one- Doc Gooden? Thurman Munson and Roberto Clemente? Piersall?

Dan Szymborski

12:51

If people liked it sure!

But I'm less inclined to do ones for people who have died.

12:52

Feels al ittle skeezy

tonyp

12:52

we did liked it but I get the death part

Dan Szymborski

12:52

There are plenty of other careers that went off course!

Dbo

12:52

The next MLB draft should be held at Chuck E Cheese and the order goes into which GM wins the most tickets at skee ball

Dan Szymborski

12:53

Chuck E. Cheese is on Door Dash, which confuses me. Are people going there just for the food?

Human Rain Delay

12:53

Is Independent baseball really a substitute for towns losing an affiliated minor league team?

Dan Szymborski

12:53

Unfortunately minor league baseball has little leverage

because of the pandemic, MLB can literally just wait it out and just see how doesn't go bankrupt, causing the leagues to contract "naturally."

Jeff

12:53

Is there an exact moment in sports history when the sports media narrative flipped from "look at all this cool shit these guys are doing" to "can you believe they get paid?"

Dan Szymborski

12:54

free agency maybe?

Admittedly, I'm paid to be a critic

Insert Clever Name Here

12:54

Also, just remembered re: Braves ZiPS projections, was surprised when Nolan Kingham's projection came out. I get the WAR projection is likely coming from the innings pitched, but seeing ZiPS put that out for someone who only pitched 6 games above A+ was...interesting.

Dbo

12:56

So white chili isn’t really chili

Dan Szymborski

12:56

yes

Jeff

12:56

Is there any specific reason we know the salaries of athletes? Most of them aren't white but make lots of money, maybe?

Dan Szymborski

12:56

It's news!

Paying players is a form of marketing

12:57

The Phillies aren't going to pay a bazillion to Bryce Harper and then not ADVERTISE that they are

Same reason AAA games leak out their development costs.

THIS GAME COST $200 MILLION!!!!!!!

Dbo

12:57

I don’t want to live in a world where skyline chili is considered more of chili than chili with chicken/turkey. Skyline chili doesn’t even have chili peppers in the recipe

Dan Szymborski

12:57

I'm not rating skyline chili higher!

LFC Mike

12:57

have you ever had Chili from Chili’s?

Dan Szymborski

12:57

Joe

12:58

never had chicken salad dan?

Dan Szymborski