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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 6/11/20

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Dan Szymborski

12:13

I've been 60/40 to 70/30 or so.

mrkevinschwarz

12:13

Hello Dan.

Dan Szymborski

12:13

Oh god, you guys are asking many Eric questions.

12:14

You know he's here tomorrow!

I'm just here to ramble about chili.

Devil Ray Jay Johnson

12:14

Rosenthal’s proposal makes too much sense to work right?

Dan Szymborski

12:14

It'd be weird if MLB didn't take the most awkward route.

Martin from Canada

12:14

What happens if the Can-US border remains closed during the abridged season? Do the Jays only have nominally home games in the other parks?

Dan Szymborski

12:14

I believe that would be the likely result

OddBall Herrera

12:14

I for one have been waiting my whole life to volunteer to be a scab when MLB players strike. My time has come, look upon my .063 OPS and despair!

Dan Szymborski

12:15

I use that line for the Pete Kozma, the great Kozmandias, look at his OPS, ye mighty, and despair.

You think you're PETE KOZMA?

12:16

I was going to do to the Navy Seal copypasta with Kozma replace, but there are more curse words than Meg or David would like me to use, I think.

The Ghost of Bobby Thigpen

12:16

But, but...baseball teams aren't profitable...right Mr. DeWitt?

Dan Szymborski

12:17

"Professional baseball is on the wane. Salaries must come down or the interest of the public must be increased in some way."

(Al Spalding, 19th century)

GraphsFan

12:17

Who are your favorite non-FG baseball writers?

Dan Szymborski

12:18

I'm too close to too many writers to give a fair answer

Guest

12:18

How about the theme from Who's the Boss this week?

Dan Szymborski

12:19

You guys are really intent on making me sign a theme song every week, aren't you?

Guest

12:19

In your opinion, are libertarians a somewhat plausible ally in calls to defund the police?

Dan Szymborski

12:19

Depends when you mean by defund

12:20

Small-l libertarians have been calling for demilitarization, ending the war on drugs, and many of the lawyers for a shaving down of qualified immunity, for a very, very long time.

12:24

OK, here' Who's the Boss, you ghouls.

https://soundcloud.com/dan-szymborski/who-da-boss/s-dhVFDgzCMkF

OddBall Herrera

12:25

So the easy solution here is to mandate all games will be played in international waters, where there are no rules about disallowing fans in the stadium. Bonus: baseball games will look more like scenes from Waterworld.

Dan Szymborski

12:26

There are dangers of this.

Martin from Canada

12:27

Continuing for the sake of argument that the Jays have nominal home games in foreign parks, how much is this going to affect Jays projections?

Dan Szymborski

12:29

It's ahrd to say. I've actually looked a little at proejcting the players on Pennsylvania Road Warriors and found that they underperformed what you'd expect while on the Road Warriors

12:30

But there's some much uncertainty

Dan's mom

12:30

Danny! Bad news about your car when I borrowed it last week. The intake valve seems to have a slight problem, oh and by the way the entire bumper is offer, but that had nothing to do with demolition derby. Would you like a ham sandwich, sweetie?

Dan Szymborski

12:30

My real mom would know that chicken milanese is what's best to bribe me with

delatopia

12:30

Hey, Dan, no question here but I just wanted to tell you and any DMB projection players in your chat that I’ve compiled photo sets for the 2020 projection disk, the 90x135 headshots and the 200x280 baseball card style. That’s 2,865 players, times two — my quarantine project. I believe they are complete. You can get them here:

http://www.cfa21.net/2020projection-90x135.zip
http://www.cfa21.net/2020projection-200x280.zip

Also, here's a handy online UID list if you're wondering who's who or looking for a particular player.
http://www.cfa21.net/2020projection_UID_list.html

Dan Szymborski

12:31

man, you got EVERYONE?

Amazing stuff!

Did you get all the horrified pitcher faces that MLB Pipeline tends to use?

12:32