JotCast | FanGraphs 2022 Opening Day Chat

FanGraphs 2022 Opening Day Chat

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Dan Szymborski

4:28

If it's windy, it might fly away

Eel Ffilc

4:28

I'm just noticing this, how long have umpires been wearing FTX ads on their jackets?

Meg Rowley

4:28

They definitely had them last year.

Luke Hooper

4:28

Portland checking in, 70 and sunny!

Ben Clemens

4:28

A year?

Mo Vaughn’s Cup

4:29

if you went back in time and introduced Dan vogelbach to a manager from the 90’s they would quit their job when you told them he was an opening day leadoff hitter

Ben Clemens

4:29

I love that he almost beat out a single too

Dan Szymborski

4:29

Umpire ads should all be companies chosen to make fun of umpires, like eyeglass companies

Guest

4:30

On Statcast, Vogelbach is the leader in the PIT-STL game for "Top Distances" at 6'

Farhandrew Zaidman

4:30

What's the all time best heckle you have ever heard? Either to an umpire or player.

Dan Szymborski

4:30

OH GOD BIEBER IS BLURRY AND NOTHING ELSE IS

Ben Clemens

4:30

Yessss I've been waiting for this question

Tie between "Hey Benintendi, I had that haircut in third grade!"

and "Hey Benintendi, your skillset won't be valued in arbitration!"

Meg Rowley

4:31

lol who do you go to games with?

Ben Clemens

4:31

That was an unnamed Yankees fan out in the left field bleachers in whichever year there was a Yankees/Sox ALDS

Vin

4:31

Is someone using the center field cam in KC as a napkin?

Jay Jaffe

4:31

if you rub vaseline on the camera lens it makes them look like the early 1980s Royals

Ben Clemens

4:31

This camera is baffling to me

4:32

It's rained in Kansas City before, presumably

Kiermaier's Piercing Green Eyes

4:32

Imagine not playing baseball in a dome. 🤡🤡🤡

Luke Hooper

4:33

Kinda looks like Bieber has shortened his arm even more

Meg Rowley

4:33

I once yelled at a home plate ump to ask for help on check swing calls - when the first base ump said a guy didn't check his swing when he clearly did, I yelled "be a better helper!"

Jay Jaffe

4:34

LOL

Ben Clemens

4:34

First pinch hitter of the year: Mike Brosseau, in the number nine spot, to face a lefty

What universal DH?

Meg Rowley

4:34

I was sitting with a team employee friend who was not amused, though come on, that could have been so much worse

Jason

4:35

No question, but just happy that baseball is back! And we get to chat about it with all of you

Ben Clemens

4:35

Yeah!

Farhandrew Zaidman

4:35

I was at the Barry Bonds syringe game at Dodger Stadium. Does that count as a heckle?

KimByung Slice

4:35

For Jay, the only writer I think with children, have you taken your daughter to a MLB game and managed to stay the whole time? I'd like to take my sons but they can't sit still for three innings before asking to leave, let alone nine

Jay Jaffe

4:36

Yes, we've gone the distance at least once, at a Yankees game last year. Also a couple times at Sunday Brooklyn Cyclones games so she could stay and run the bases afterwards.

Dan Szymborski

4:35