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Dan Szymborski

1:07

But don't bug her with that. She has a lot to do and Matt is off tomorrow

She has to turn my tangential asides into soemthing readable after all, so have mercy

Alby

1:07

No, you didn't say that about Manhattan, the questioner did.

Dan Szymborski

1:08

Good, I'm not from New York, but my grandfather, an old Bronx lawyer, would be rolling around in his grave if I thought either were in Manhattan

Just Fowl

1:08

I imagine ZiPs running on a machine resembling this

Dan Szymborski

1:08

poorly

Alby

1:08

I imagine it's quite a bit harder to be the shame of Queens.

Dan Szymborski

1:09

The slowest machine I have run ZiPS of the last few years in has been my mom's i7-3770K (which did run ZiPS in the early 2010s between the Phenom II 965 Black and the i7-8700K)

Guest

1:10

not to be morbid, but zips shouldn't die with you

Guest

1:10

not to be morbid, but does that mean that when you leave the mortal plane, ZiPS goes with you? (besides living on in our hearts forever)

Dan Szymborski

1:11

I don't intend THAT, but I do need a more focused succession plan

I'm 47, not 27 (and of course, 27 year olds die suddenly too)

right now, my executor has directions to email David for advice on it, but I don't have any specific advanced directives

Guest

1:11

high speed is a good strategy for showdowns. Do you prioritize that even over L/R splits?

Dan Szymborski

1:12

typically

Showdowns are at Veteran, so the platoon problems are approachable

Sleepless in Philadelphia

1:12

Do you think the Padres actually try Mason Miller as a starter next season? I've seen a lot of speculation about it

Dan Szymborski

1:12

I think they at least explore it

Guest

1:12

is that the last time you've gone kayaking, the last time you've gone kayaking without wearing the vest, or the last time you went kayaking without knowing where the vest was at all times?

Dan Szymborski

1:13

I've gone kayaking since and put the lifejacket in a loosely tied grocery plastic bag

so that nothing is dangling out, but I can still grab it easily

I don't kayak anywhere particularly rough

and I'm very buoyant!

Karl Hungus

1:14

Any chance you could do zips for football? You would make a killing for fantasy.

Dan Szymborski

1:14

I had actually done some prelim for ESPN

but the feeling there was that nobody would buy a projection system that believes thinks RBs shouldn't be projected over 12/13 games, even if it was accurate

1:15

and baseball is my first passion. I make more than enough money for my lifestyle, so I haven't really had that push to do smore with NFL/NBA

We actually used the rudimentary football ZiPS to project Bo Jackson in an ESPN the magazine issue a ways back

War2D2

1:16

Speaking of life jacket horror stories, you should read Dead Wake by Erik Larson.

Dan Szymborski

1:16

On that note, it's time fo rme to head out for another week

Izzy

1:16

Todd Bonzalez seems to have forgotten the Cubs and Brewers have great infield defense. The Reds probably don’t even have the best infield defense in the division.

Karl Hungus

1:16

Average number of hours per day you watch baseball?

Dan Szymborski

1:16

1:17

Though I multitask in everything I do, so I'm not just staring directly at the screen

I may be watching three games, playing a game, and listening to Mahler simultaneously

1:18

I'm really bad at filtering out things around me. I love baseball games, but I hate crowds, because I freaking hear every individual conversation that I can be heard. I've actually taken to wearing earplugs in public

1:19

but I'm so used to being overstimulated after nearly half a century of it, I have a great deal of trouble sitting quietly in a quiet room

if you put me in sensory deprivation, I'd probably go batshit crazy

1:20

on THAT note, time to head out!

Joeg

1:20

What team are you gonna bandwagon this year

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