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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 7/16/20

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Trent Hauser

1:07

What will kill me first - COVId or bubonic plague!??!

Dan Szymborski

1:07

Odds are still heart disease or cancer, but COVID more likely

LFC Mike

1:07

What's up with Kopech? That is the second pitcher I have already lost on my fantasy team. Our commissioner made us draft in March. SYNDGAAAARRRDDDDDDD

Moose_Bolton

1:08

If a man with a briefcase came in and told you that he would give you billion dollars but it means that a man with an ax would show up at your job and chop off one of your coworkers fingers, would you do it? If you don't work at an office then feel free to imagine a previous coworker situation.

Dan Szymborski

1:08

Does it have to be a coworker? I'd sacrifice a finger for a billion dollars.

1:09

I can think of someone at Stebbins Anderson (RIP, 1869-2019) in Towson I would have had someone chop the finger off of!

I don't work in an office now. I'm full-time for FanGraphs!

We don't really even have an office.

Or, if we do, nobody's gotten on me for never making an appearance.

LFC Mike

1:09

a billion would buy you a bionic hand. Where is the axe?

Dan Szymborski

1:09

I'd even sacrifice a hand! Sure, no more FPS games, but I can still play card games and RPGs.

1:11

I'd prefer to lose a finger because a pinky or something, I think I *could* still possibly play piano

But for a billion? take the hand

1:12

Paul Wittgenstein still found things he could play with one hand. Commissioned works, too, which I could do with a billion dollars.

Chris

1:12

Looks like you can't actually add new prospects if your player breaks his wrist without exposing said prospect to waivers or adding said injured player to the 40 man

Dan Szymborski

1:12

Oh,w as this the q?

Lorenzo

1:12

Who is your pick to win it all this season?

Dan Szymborski

1:12

Dodgers, but the overall probability.

Guest

1:13

Aesthetically what is your favourite pitch to watch? (12-6 Curve, fading circle changeup.. high 4 seamer)

Dan Szymborski

1:13

I love me a good knuckle-curve

Numpty

1:14

Plus you could by Michael Jackson's old sparkly glove to put over the bionic hand

Uther

1:14

Captain Trips is way worse than COVID or Bubonic Plague

Have you come across any other CCG games that you enjoy along the lines of Hearthstone?

Dan Szymborski

1:14

Not to the same degree.

1:14

What are the odds someone hits .400 this year? And how big of an asterisk are you putting next to it?

Dan Szymborski

1:14

Upcoming article!

1:14

I'm just catching up on chat. If you had to recommend where to start with the Trails Series, where would you point me?

Dan Szymborski

1:14

I'd start with Trails in the Sky. Though note that like the Suikoden games, they tend to be slow burners.

1:15

The first half of the first one is a little light in tone, but they quickly become grander and more complex after that.

By the time you finish Trails in the Sky second chapter, you'll know if you like the series or not.

1:16

They all have that same pattern. Trails of Zero/Azure starts off slow in Zero. Trails of Cold Steel a little slow in teh first one for the first third of the game.

But they're all in a shared world and as such, the history and the characters and political manueverings all tend to accumulate.

1:17

On that note, it's time for me to head out. See you all Openign Day, I hoep!

1:18

Actually, one last edit for the last answer

You'll probably know if you're going to like the series depending on a cliffhanger at the very end of Trails in the Sky First Chapter; if you're destined to like the series, you'll want to immediately play the next one.

OK, now edit

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