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Dan Szymborski

1:09

And it's that kind of behavior that was unfairly used to keep women reporters from being in the clubhouse

1:10

That was an abuse of the credential, and he should have had it removed, and kicked off the BBWAA membership list as a result. It was WAY WAY worse than lebatard's HOF vote

1:11

If he were still an active member of the BBWAA and working professionally, I would be actively pursuing this to the best of my ability. But he is no longer a cardholder (except for the lifetime one you get after a number of years) and I think that he's off the grid with problems specific to the very elderly

so no longer in public life.

Jon

1:11

We can add emojis to your posts now??

Dan Szymborski

1:11

I've had that option clicked forever!

matt w

1:12

Dan! Did you know that on April 3, the Pirates and the Blue Jays were briefly both at .500 for their all-time franchise record? (By my calculations.)
I'm surprised that this didn't make a bigger splash among baseball trivia mongers!

Dan Szymborski

1:12

I did a projection for that in a mailbag question last year

Dan, Man

1:12

Is Fangraphs a front to take on the antichrist?

Dan Szymborski

1:12

If it is, they haven't let me in on it

Oaktown Blues

1:12

Do you feel that the level of crazy of the moon bat Blue Sky users approaches the level of crazy of the wingnut Twitter users? Because I...don't, to put it mildly

(sorry if that's too overtly political)

Dan Szymborski

1:12

In certain ways, yes

1:13

I think the Blue Sky users tend to be better educated about the things they're angry about, so I also expect them to know better

And there's a pack mentality on Blue Sky that's absolutely brutal

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Dan, Man

1:13

Sorry for the poop. It's experimental

Dan Szymborski

1:13

Everybody poops

trophy

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Dan

1:13

With the padres sale I calculated they spend 5.7% of their value on players (including CBT tax but not benefits) do you think this is close to the right amount for the industry? It's higher than an average American company but not for a company who's product is also their labor.

Dan Szymborski

1:14

It doesn't seem drastically off

Dan, Man

1:14

Matt Welch or Walsh?

Dan Szymborski

1:14

Welch. I sure as hell hope id din't accidentally type Walsh

It's funny, Welch is one of a number of people in the political space that I mostly know from baseball things

I know Welch as an Angels blogger

1:15

Josh Kraushaar I still associate with him being a teenager passionate about the Orioles

and I know Jonathan Bernstein as a Giants usenet contributor. And Ted Frank as a White Sox fan regular on rec.sport.baseball in the 90s

1:16

Jeff Blehar as Esoteric on BTF

Sal's Mom

1:16

Well, who's on the other end of the spectrum from Chass for you? As in, a BBWAA guy who you'd love to break bread with and is arguably beyond reproach?

Dan Szymborski

1:17

As in my feuding with? I don't really have lots of feuds believe it or not!

I'm preetty harmless

1:18

I'd love to really get to spend some time hanging with Bernie Miklasz though in old school Baltimore areas

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I've gotten to talk with him a lot, but I've never really gotten to hang with the guy

1:19

I have a lot of random engagements with colleagues that I really treasure

my favorite plane ride of all time was a Hartford-->Chicago flight. I swapped my business class seat for one in coach since Christina Kahrl was on the flight, and we made star wars jokes for 2 hours

1:20

Also had a fun car ride where I gave a lift to Joe Kay, Steve Gardner, and Jerry Crasnick, where we had dueling Android/Iphone directions arguing with each other and my goddamn check engine light came on, which was embarrassing

Scared in SD

1:21

Hi Dan. I think our cat is out to get me. What should i do??

Dan Szymborski

1:21

Keep your will in order

Dan, Man

1:21

Until the antichrist gets here, I think the plan is to be healthy, protect your family and enjoy baseball. Right?

Dan Szymborski

1:21

I guess so?

Maybe not burn any bridges with the antichrist, since I like to hedge bets

Dan, Man

1:21

Prediction: Cam Smith gets some down ballet MVP votes

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