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Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 7/28/22

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Dan Szymborski

12:59

Ah, OK, I was confused

1:00

My favorite AI thing has to be either the clickbait headlines or the Florida Man generator

1:01

Baseball CLickbait

1:02

Florida Man

1:03

And I also trained it on Key & Peele football names

Guest

1:04

Are you a Miss Shirley’s person?

Dan Szymborski

1:05

I have been there, but if I'm in Baltimore and out for breakfast things, it's far more likely that it's Hampden rather than Roland Park

1:06

Probably the place I've eaten the most in Baltimore when going back for breakfast/brunch is Golden West on 36th

1:06

Dan, you have to choose for the sake of your life - black beans or pinto beans in your chili. Which do you go with?

Dan Szymborski

1:06

Black beans

Homer

1:06

You have a good sense of humor...assuming that means you weren't a looker as a young man either?

Dan Szymborski

1:06

Nor as a middle-aged man!

1:07

Someone once sent me a message informing me I looked like a cross between Shrek and Hermann Göring. It's not OBVIOUSLY wrong

Guest

1:07

Do you think the smarter teams (or ZIPS) have any projection capabilities for players who changed their breakfast plans, or is the history of players just too limited to draw meaningful trends? (Laureano, Jorge Polanco circa 2018, etc.)

Dan Szymborski

1:07

Wait, what?

1:08

I rarely get to see an actual team projection

A lot of teams ask, but if I sell a team or an agency data, it's one-way of that kind of info, I hit a button, send the data, get the standard fee, and I don't offer an opinion.

Uncle Spike

1:09

How does ZIPs feel about Bryan Ramos? If was very high on him prior to this season and he's had very similar results as before. Slightly above average player that's really young for his age.

Dan Szymborski

1:09

ZiPS still likes him a ton!

1:10

See 25 hr power from him in majors eventually

HappyFunBall

1:10

The older I get, the more I like to think that I too am really young for my age

Dan Szymborski

1:11

I *physically* feel 44 because of my back, but I don't feel psychologically 44 and certainly not 44 in maturity

I thought I'd be more sophisticated at 44

1:12

I basically do what I did at 5 (play with baseball stats, write, record into a tape recorder as a radio show, play video games) but just get paid for a lot of that now

(In fact, paid for all four thing since I wrote about Hearthstone and OVerwatch for ESPN)

1:13

Now, I do actually radio shows, I don't mean I still carry around a tape recorder and record an imaginary radio show complete with commercials

That would be kinda weird

And yeah, five-year-old Dan did commercials. He was already a shameless capitalist pig!

Appa Yip Yip

1:13

Don't you listen to a ton of classical music isn't that sophistication have movies about psychotic rich people been lying to me my whole life

Insert Witty Name Here

1:13

You’re one of the best writers and stat guys on one of the most popular baseball websites in the world. How much more sophisticated do you want to be? A monocle maybe?

Dan Szymborski

1:14

I do listen to a ton of classical music, but I don't think the stereotype of a classical music buff is an unshaven, uncombed man in gym shorts playing Grand Theft Auto to Bruckner

1:16

I think this is more the stereotype

The Great Giambino

1:16

Whoa whoa whoa, you wrote about two of my favorite games for ESPN and I had no idea?!?! Butter my butt and call me a biscuit, I've got to reorganize my afternoon

Dan Szymborski

1:17

ESPN closed down their esports section in some of the cutouts, sadly!

https://www.espn.com/esports/story/_/id/14927394/dan-szymborski-nostal...

1:18

I got to do a couple card reveals

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