JotCast | Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 5/21/2020

Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 5/21/2020

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Dan Szymborski

12:33

I think we're still a way to robots

greg

12:33

Cat update please.

Dan Szymborski

12:33

Last I saw, Mercutio was in the living room after winning a battle with Justinian for the ottoman.

12:34

Justinian and Constantine were fighting over the empty box of Sparkle paper towels that has become a fort.

(I ordered like a thing of 48)

Cassiopeia was watching the cardinals that hang around my house from one of the back rooms after fuming off when she was waiting by the dry food bowl but Justinian got there first when I poured extras.

greg

12:34

Have you played stellaris? Thoughts?

Dan Szymborski

12:35

Fun game, and I have played a lot!

Though CKIII is still my favorite paradox game

12:36

I'm at 454 hours of Stellaris but 846 of Crusader Kings II

though both haven't been played since before the winter.

12:37

I played through all the Legend of Heroes Trails games, including the fan translation of the two Crossbell games that have not yet been translated. Then I played the PC release of Trails of Cold Steel III, followed by the Japanese Trails of Cold Steel IV on PS4, which will not be released in English on PC until early 2021.

With the pandemic raging and me being overweight and not as young as I used to be, I thought it would be a good idea to hedge my bets and finish that story arc!

Kiermaier's Piercing Green Eyes

12:37

Wait does "second division regular" not just mean "low-end regular?" Like if I were to call, I dunno, Eric Sogard before last year a "second-tier starter?"

Dan Szymborski

12:37

I think now we're mixing up all the terms

BarryBondsJuicedForOurSins

12:37

7 is both somehow much lower and much higher than I would've guessed

TomBruno23

12:38

Remember the Senior Professional Baseball Association? That league was the best.

The gig is up

12:38

The coronavirus is all a ploy set up by the Orioles organization to minimize their losses on the Chris Davis contract by getting more WAR out of him for a cancelled 2020 season than if he'd actually taken the field.

Bill G

12:38

Both Baseball reference and MLB.com have declared that OOTP is the most realistic baseball simulation software available. I would like to see Fangraphs do an independent analysis of the various simulation programs (OOTP, DMB, etc) and provide their own ranking! Thanks for the consideration.

Dan Szymborski

12:38

DMB's simulation focus is individual games of baseball more than OOTP

While OOTP seeks to get the whole framework

Walter F. Lazarz

12:38

If the KBO is playing why is MLB not playing?

Dan Szymborski

12:38

They've been more successful with their cases

TomBruno23

12:38

Last night I was desperate for a snack and, as a vegan (patting myself on the back) microwaved a veggie dog, wrapped it inside the end piece from a loaf of wheat bread, slapped some ketchup on it and threw it down. How ashamed should I be?

Dan Szymborski

12:38

I'm not even sure why you're hear instead of opening your veins in a hot bath like a defeated Roman general.

dezre

12:39

For the show. Take pitches! And just look for balls up in the zone. Work favorable counts, and you'll get them to hit...

Yankees

12:39

I would agree it's mixed bag. I think the Yankees have a higher chance of being top-level in 2021 than the Trashcans, which is automatically an advantage, but woof, never wish away a year of window.

Milestone

12:39

What's one milestone longterm we end up not seeing because of what is probably a 1/2 season? Who ends up with McGriff's 493 HR, or 2,995 hits or some such?

Dan Szymborski

12:39

I did do the full season missed milestone!

Haven't done half year

Sam

12:39

Does Chuck E Cheese have the most unnecessarily dark backstory of any fictional character ever?

Dan Szymborski

12:39

Babar

12:40

Smurfette

Seriously, go look up Smurfette on Wikipedia.

Numpty

12:41

Wouldn't a dessert soup be a second division regular dessert?

Dan Szymborski

12:41

I didn't say it was GOOD

hscer

12:41

I doubt those who have been carjacked are much inclined to wax poetic about the nature of their experience.

Dan Szymborski

12:41

Well, not immediately

Dbo

12:41

What’s your ranking of Chilis, Applebee’s, and TGI Friday’s

Dan Szymborski

12:41

Probably that order, but I'm not really into that restaurant genre

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