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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 6/18/20

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Dan Szymborski

1:04

so a 60 win team gets 3600 tickets and an 85 win team gets.......7225?

1:05

Yea, 80x80 is 6400, 80*5 is 400, a second 80*5 is another 400, and 5*5 is 25

Homer

1:06

Le Grille? What the hell is that?

Tim Tebow's Thunder Thighs

1:06

Is your ultimate food nightmare a skyline chili dog with beans and a pancake as the bun?

Dan Szymborski

1:06

Just broccoli

LFC Mike

1:06

Unhinged or nontethered bread is where the definition of a sandwich starts then..no matter what is in the middle of it

Dan Szymborski

1:06

If the bread is unhinged, on a sandwich you binged

Matt

1:06

If sports franchises' value rises faster than most assets, and in part rely on public funding, would it be a good investment for states/cities to exercise their eminent domain power (assuming that's even legal) to snag their local pro sports franchises? Or is running a sports franchise so different from running a government that the return wouldn't be enough? My guess is that if the likes of McCourt and Bill Cox could make bank from a sports team, even a terribly-run municipal government would still at least break even.

Dan Szymborski

1:06

I don't support one injustice to remedy another.

1:07

I think that's a monstrous use of eminent domain and Maryland deserved to lose the Colts by forcing Irsay.

I don't think government should be allowed to do awful things to "get out of" their prior, awful decisions.

1:08

The solution to not making terrible deals is to not make terrible deals.

Dan Syzmborski

1:08

The cat/mouse game between the owners and union is getting stale. Looks like owners don't want to play past September per the request of Dr. Fauci. Realistically, how can we expect a season in 2020?

Dan Szymborski

1:08

I'm still 80/20

Guest

1:08

In Ben Clemens's article on the expanded playoffs, he mentioned having lower seeds only field 8 players as a way to reward higher seeds. Would this necessarily be a competitive disadvantage given that the lower seed could turn their lineup around faster?

Dan Szymborski

1:09

I'm not sure, I woke up late and haven' tread everything

hscer

1:09

most vegetables are good if not waterlogged or burnt

Dan Szymborski

1:09

I tend to like vegetables raw

hscer

1:09

oh come on broccoli is good!

Dan Szymborski

1:09

Gross. I don't even let it in my car.

The smell is horrific

Numpty

1:09

Fridays was the logical precursor to TGI Fridays

LFC Mike

1:09

Chili between two pieces of unhinged bread is a chili sandwich

Dan Szymborski

1:09

Yes

as long as there are no beans

then it's a bean and chili sandwich

Sir Nerdlington

1:10

MLBPA needs an ownership stake in teams (i.e. receive some revenue upon sales, expansion) and ancillary business dealing (e.g. gambling, MLBAM, etc.) in order to tie the owners/players together. Baseline the valuation of all teams and business lines as of the date the CBA expiration and the MLBPA sees a X% stake above and beyond. Workable?

Dan Szymborski

1:10

I agree, but achieving it is difficult.

If owners want to be "partners" when times are bad, they have to have a framework for being "partners" when times are good

hscer

1:11

on the broccoli I guess you just [looks it up] have an over/underactive TAS2R38? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broccoli#Taste

Dan Szymborski

1:11

didn't know something like that was a thing

hscer

1:12

actually tas2r38 is in the broccoli not the person. i think. #science

Dan Szymborski

1:12

Last year I had these instant dan dan noodles and I tasted them and my gag reflex instantly went off. I didn't realize it, but broccoli powder was one of the ingredients in the sauce packet

My friends used to like to try to sneak broccoli near me to see when I noticed.

1:14

Like during senior week in ocean city, my friends dave, jim, alan, and I went to this steak place. Dave tried to sneak broccoli into my car in the backseat. I smelled it as we were leaving the parking lot and turning onto ocean highway and I pullled over the car and made Dave throw it out the window or I wouldn't drive

hscer

1:14

wikipedia links to: "Human bitter perception correlates with bitter receptor messenger RNA expression in taste cells" Lipchock et al 2013

LFC Mike

1:14

is your position on cauliflower the same? its basically white broccoli texture wise

Dan Szymborski

1:14

Yes

That whole family is repulsive to me.

BCA

1:14