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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 5/31/17

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Blue Morpho

3:02

Do you write in cursive?

Dan Szymborski

3:02

Just my signature.

It's like I write much of anything anymore.

Best Baseball Brawl

3:03

Wouldn't the best baseball fight of all time be a Chris Young and Chris Young vs. Chris Davis and Khris Davis?

Dan Szymborski

3:03

It'd be hard to pronounce.

Glass

3:03

Is David Dahl the most fragile young player in the game?

Dan Szymborski

3:03

He's certainly looking on the risky side. But I don't want to label him too quickly.

Jack

3:04

Why doesn't anybody suggest Colin Kaepernick giving minor league pitching a shot if the NFL is really done with him? He was a much more talented baseball player than another certain ex-NFL QB currently struggling in single-A

Dan Szymborski

3:04

I think he'll latch onto a team over the summer.

hscer

3:04

Ba4/Qe2, that's what the guy who lost to HAL played!

Dan Szymborski

3:04

It's a fairly standard line

I forget the name that line is called.

3:05

I think it was similar to a pitcher but I can't think of it

Mark

3:05

Since you like goofy questions, how much different would baseball be if we called walks BoBs instead of BBs? Thanks for the chat btw

Dan Szymborski

3:05

About the same but would sound funnier. The word bob sounds funny

Padres Fan

3:05

NEVER! Or until the ghost of Tony Gwynn returns.

Danny Salazar's Elbow

3:05

If you were a police officer, were 100% certain of a man's guilt, but could only get him convicted in a court of law by planting evidence, would you do it?

Dan Szymborski

3:05

3:06

I'm a lot like my grandfather, sometimes obnoxiously *over* principled.

I remember when my sister broke my calculator from college when she went to college

3:07

It was this sweet one

I told her she could replace it after college when she got a job.

She offered bo buy me a new, top of the line model

But I only wanted a used one since that's what was broken

3:08

And to put the F1-F8 keys wrong (by rows instead of columns) because I had put the buttons back in wrong order once after opening it up and cleaning a coke spill

Frustrated owner

3:08

Have any fangraphs writers even become good friends with players through the job?

Dan Szymborski

3:08

You should ask Eno.

It'd be weird if I tracked friendships.

YKnotDisco?!

3:09

Since you are a sucker for Goofy questions, Is Goofy really a dog? And how come he can talk and Pluto can't?

Dan Szymborski

3:09

Different breed of dog.

Babe Lincoln

3:09

How good is Michael Conforto?

Dan Szymborski

3:09

Very

Babe Lincoln

3:10

Best Conforto nickname suggestion?

Dan Szymborski

3:10

I don't actually have one. And mine are stupid.

Slurm

3:10

While i enjoy and appreciate the guys at Fangraphs doing these chats, I wish there was a way to eliminate questions that the same people ask in every chat each week. It is so boring reading the same questions being asked in every chat. I know, you guys just randomly pick the questions. It's still boring.

Miguel R

3:10

Are you a internet troll?

Dan Szymborski

3:10

I'm a journalist, so to a degree, yes.

Pie

3:10

I haven't played the Ruy Lopez in ages, I've been a fan of how the Italian opening has been going for me

Dan Szymborski

3:11

I find it hard to get beneficial imbalances there.