JotCast | Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 6/4/20

Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 6/4/20

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Guest

12:26

I like how you've been so adamant about beans not being part of chili that it's brought up every week, and now all of the sudden you're like "you know what, beans are ok in chili!" 10/10, would troll again

Dan Szymborski

12:26

It's still terrible! It's not quite the same as chucking beans into it.

JT

12:26

Any predictions for prospect development with this shut down? Will it affect different profiles differently? Will it generally be a blip, or will this derail careers?

Dan Szymborski

12:26

I have zero idea, we're in uncharted territory.

JT

12:26

At this point, how does the US have a single Trump supporter left?

Dan Szymborski

12:27

In my opinion, 15-20% is as low as anyone with a D or an R next to their name can go, no matter what they do.

LFC Mike

12:27

For bad ass theme song give us Hawaii 5-0 for utter insanity I Dream of Jeannie

Dan Szymborski

12:27

You know, if we're going to do these too long, I'm going to have to actually try.

And it's going to be depressing, because while trying Dan is better at singing, trying Dan is still awful.

12:28

I play a lot of instruments, but I have zero singing voice.

Guest

12:28

I prefer the not trying Dan

Dan Szymborski

12:28

Me too, it's way less work.

12:30

And between pandemics, baseball strife, peaceful protestors being gassed and beaten, militarization of police, no-platforming goons, hawaiian shirt nazis, anti-capitalist dangerhair kids, and people who want to govern based on a lousy John Lennon song, I'm just *exhausted* in life at the moment.

I'm off Twitter for sure for the time being. It's just too much.

LFC Mike

12:30

Not Trying Dan makes us all look better than we are

hscer

12:30

I play no instruments and also have no singing voice.

how did not-trying Dan find enough trying in him to get where he is today

Dan Szymborski

12:31

I accidentally tricked smart people into thinking I was smart, and now I have to maintain my cerebral Potemkin village.

hscer

12:31

To be fair, all John Lennon songs are lousy.

20% is the accepted minimum support for any proposition https://politics.theonion.com/poll-1-in-5-americans-believe-obama-is-a...

Guest

12:31

I think my favorite parts are when you sing the instrumentals

Morbo

12:31

Replying to the stranger's question: I'd like to see the players take more financial control of the teams.

Dbo

12:32

How much milk do I put in my coffee where it’s no longer coffee but instead coffee flavored milk?

Dan Szymborski

12:32

20%. It's the coffee-pareto principle

glt4dc

12:32

Apropos of nothing (but this seems to be the time), but of 2 particularly rare events, why have there been more perfect games thrown (23) v. 4-home run games (18)? Perfect games seem to require more things to go right (100 pitches thrown well v. getting 4 fat pitches), good defense, and a favorable strike zone. Is this just a matter of small sample size?

Dan Szymborski

12:33

I'd argue there's more of a beneficial luck element with perfect games.

It's hard to have lucky homers.

hscer

12:33

I, uh...don't think that's how Pareto is applied ; p However, I'm sure no more than 20% of the population drinks no less than 80% of the coffee.

Dan Szymborski

12:33

coffee-pareto!

Guest

12:33

Oh Yoko still brings it hscer

Joe

12:33

Have you ever taken a look at the Handbook of Statistical Methods and Analyses in Sports ?

Dan Szymborski

12:34

I haven't actually.

Though I think I'd be more interested in some of the stuff in other sports, about which I'm less educated.

12:35

I do an obscene amount of data work with baseball. Because I do *everything* myself, even things that have been done by others.

Morbo

12:35

The players have a lot more negotiating power than they have exercised especially if the union brought the Minor Leaguers into the union. It would be tumultuous for the sport but I'd like to see them start to exercise it

Dan Szymborski

12:35

There are some legal difficulties with simply adding minor leaguers, though I'm not versed enough into reciting them.

Morbo

12:35

I would like the players to be able to force certain owners l: ie the wilpons, bob nutting, and potentially John Fisher to sell their teams

Dan Szymborski

12:35

That would be fun.

hscer

12:36

I suppose Yoko "brings it" more than, say...Billy Ray Cyrus (major points to whoever gets the reference)

Guest

12:36

who do you think would be more surprised: your boss checking in on the chat and finding out you're taking tv show theme song requests and recording them on soundcloud, or the median boss of a person on this chat finding out that we're participating in a chat and requesting tv theme songs to be sung and listening to them?

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