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InsertWittyNameHere

12:54

Why have I been seeing so many people talking about their bingo cards? I guess today's senior citizens are more technologically literate these days...

Dan Szymborski

12:54

Hey, even Simpsons references are getting pretty old at this point

mookie28

12:54

How did this Mets season get so bad? Every part of the team is terrible. How would you start the fix

Dan Szymborski

12:54

exorcism

MorboTheAnnihilator

12:54

My absolute favorite baseball statistic of all time is that Bartolo Colon has 1 career walk and 1 career homer and they both happened in the same season, 2016.

tigersfan1

12:55

What is going on with the All Star voting? Do you think this biased fan voting will continue in the future, or is this year an outlier?

Dan Szymborski

12:55

All Star voting updates are generally pretty meaningless

because team's report them in chunks and at inconsistent times

teams

Charles Bengal Tiger

12:55

How close was CJ Abrams to making the improved hitters list?

Dan Szymborski

12:56

nto super close: 111-118

Resolution

12:56

A Moog Grandmother is a helluva starting point for a first synth

MorboTheAnnihilator

12:57

Kwan's already slow bat speed has dropped from 63.7 to 62.8 this year an has resulted in a 3 mph drop in his exit velocity. I wonder if we're seeing a minimum viable bat speed(Louis Arraez at 63.1 would argue against this) or if its the fact that Kwan is standing 7 inches further back in the box this year than previously and this is allowing off speed and breaking balls to move more resulting in worse quality of contact(is BA on fastballs vs offspeed/breaking pitches would support this theory).

asdfghjkl

12:58

Isn't the explanation for Kwan that the team tried making him a CF in the offseason and he was already a pretty small dude. Sometimes guys have profile collapses changing their body to move up the defensive spectrum. Obviously more of a soft-stuff explanation, but one that fits the results

Dan Szymborski

12:58

There are simply a lot of moving parts, so it's hard to get The answer, really

asdfghjkl

12:58

Would there ever be a point at which you, Dan, assume some organizational influence on bad defense at a single position? Pete Alonso leaving and immediately registering as a plus defender while Vientos replaces him as the worst in baseball, hmm. I mean look, neither guy is Andrelton Simmons, but considering how much attention was placed on K. Hernandez working with Mets 1B over the years, I wonder if there's an issue that goes beyond managers/coaches. Reminds me of the old Yankee dysfunction.

Dan Szymborski

12:58

Make me *suspect* sure, but I'll rarely have enough direct information to know for sure

InsertWittyNameHere

12:58

Speaking of Simpsons, if there was a baseball version of "That's a rare photo of Sean Connerey signed by Roger Moore.", which would be the funniest?

Dan Szymborski

12:59

Game used rougned odor bat signed by jose bautista?

I actually have a friend who collects "wrong" memorabilia

He has a baseball signed by Brett Favre for example

1:00

and he always sniffs out losing team merchandise from championship. He was so pissed when I beat him to an Atlanta Falcon Super Bowl LI champs tshirt

asdfghjkl

1:00

Does he have a basketball signed by Ben Simmons?

beanbong

1:00

I know that minor league conversions exist in zips, but is there a conversion for indy ball? If a team signed a pitcher off an indy team and called them up to the big league squad the next day, would he have a zips projection?

Dan Szymborski

1:01

he could have one, but indy ball is a HUGE hit

MorboTheAnnihilator

1:01

"Speaking of Simpsons, if there was a baseball version of "That's a rare photo of Sean Connerey signed by Roger Moore.", which would be the funniest?"

Jose Ramirez batting gloves signed by Tim Anderson.

Dan Szymborski

1:03

This remains one of my favorite stupid things I've made

https://pro.x.com/DSzymborski/status/1922653055578775625/video/1

Jeremy Fox

1:04

Re: All-Star voting, I still like Bill James' old idea to make each team's fans into a precinct. Each precinct you win gets you 15 points, second place in a precinct gets you 14 points, and so on. But I guess that would be hard to implement now the the voting is mostly online.

Dan Szymborski

1:04

That was in poltiics of glory, no?

About the Reds all star voting that year?

MorboTheAnnihilator

1:04

Gotta delete the pro. out of the twitter link for it to work for us plebs with out a checkmark

Dan Szymborski

1:04

https://x.com/DSzymborski/status/1922653055578775625/video/1

1:05

that work?