JotCast | Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 7/28/22

Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat - 7/28/22

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Dan Szymborski

1:18

https://www.espn.com/esports/story/_/id/17999260/hearthstone-mean-stre...

1:19

Also revealed that card that I think gave +2/+2 to a beast and drew a card N'zoth's hand or something?

1:20

Mark of Y'Shaarj!

forgot it

Got to interview Daniel Negreanu *only* about Hearthstone

https://abcnews.go.com/Sports/conversation-poker-star-daniel-negreanu-...

Appa Yip Yip

1:21

It should be have you seen Bill and Ted's excellent adventure Beethoven was a mess

Anton Bruckner

1:21

Okay, which of my symphonies is your favorite?

Dan Szymborski

1:21

Seventh

I'll always have a warm feeling for the seventh because that was my Bruckner introduction

1:22

Back in high school, for wind ensemble, every *hated* doing marching band and the teacher, Mr. Karow, wasn't into it either, so we basically abandoned it after my freshman year

And Mr. Karow was big on 20th century English music and late romantics, so we got to play a lot of that stuff

1:23

So combined with orchestra, we played Bruckner's 7th

we played a ton of Ralph Vaughan Williams and Percy Grainger

If it was something with piano, I'd play that instead because I'm a way better pianist than a baritone horn player

Johnny Tuttle

1:23

Did your love of classical music ever veer into opera? It did for me in my 40s, and now my Spotify only recommends The Pharcyde, Freddie Gibbs and Verdi

Dan Szymborski

1:23

Opera's probably my weakest spot

I think because I understand instrumental music better than vocal music

1:24

Because I can play a lot of instruments, mainly quite competently

and I sing like, to steal Oswalt's joke, Tom Carvel gargling glass

1:25

OK, I hope there wasn't a requirement to do it *well* because I have as much singing ability as a jar of mustard.

Jesse

1:26

I understand that you were constrained by word count, but what trade would you have made for the Mariners?

Dan Szymborski

1:26

I was actually going to give them Soto instead

but other people had been workshopping Soto already

so I went to the Giants, which people weren't talking as much about

I think it's a possibility the M's get SOto

San Dzymborski

1:26

#4 reliever in rest-of-career WAR?

Dan Szymborski

1:27

Devin Williams

Ahead of him are Clase, Hader, and Johnny Lasagna

Steven

1:27

What are you playing right now?

Dan Szymborski

1:28

playing through the falcom trails games because with the asian release of kuro no kiseki, someone on 4chan's going to have the english patch ready soon

1:29

And yeah, I know, 4chan, but there are few better places to find fan-translations for Japanese games

Morbo

1:29

My wife is a classically trained opera singer and she's very good. I love to hear her sing but her talent is kind of wasted on me because I don't really understand the nuance and skill required to do what she can do. I also know next to nothing about opera, but I don't care I could listen to her sing all day every day

Liz

1:29

Italian comic opera is pretty great, especially if you can watch a performance with singers who have good acting/timing talent as well. Barber of Seville is hilarious and has some of my favorite musical writing (there's a great six part harmony at the end of the first act that is maybe my favorite opera bit ever)

chilly

1:29

what instruments do you play best?

Dan Szymborski

1:30

piano, organ (as in with the foot pedals and all) then a step down to the lower-pitched brass instruments, clarinet, recorder

Guest

1:30

Hey Dan, would you happen to have WAR projections on Nico Hoerner for the remainder of his time under team control? I was surprised to not see him at least honorable mention on the trade value column. Other than avoiding injuries, what would he need to do to make the l

Dan Szymborski

1:31

Yeah, hang on a sec

1:32

ZiPS has him at 7.2 WAR over next 3 years

Guest

1:33

can you think of a more lopsided trade in the last 10 years than Josh fields for yordan?

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