JotCast | FanGraphs Opening Day 2020 Chat - Part I

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Ben Clemens

11:07

But he tones it way down with runners on, and I just don't see an ump calling him out for an illegal pitch without a solid reason why

Eric A Longenhagen

11:07

The Schwartz tells me the script for the Spaceballs sequel is being written

Ben Clemens

11:08

Wait really?

Eric A Longenhagen

11:09

I think so. Story next staff call.

Ben Clemens

11:09

Amazing

I was down on the remaking of movies I liked when I was younger until I saw Super Troopers 2

Now I'm back in

Guest

11:09

Man the dodgers look like arod playing connect four versus cueto

Jay Jaffe

11:10

well, they just tied the game up

Guest

11:10

Well now they don’t

Guest

11:10

Super troopers 2 is good?!?

Ben Clemens

11:10

I liked it quite a bit

It didn't try to be anything other than an extension of the first one

11:11

And I didn't really want anything more than that

Nolan

11:11

Tim Kurkijan might be my favorite baseball analyst ever, simply because he has such genuine and boundless enthusiasm for the game, in addition to being a limitless font of fascinating trivia. Who is your favorite analyst?

Eric A Longenhagen

11:11

Hershiser

Ben Clemens

11:11

Wonderful question

Jay Jaffe

11:11

I enjoy David Cone with the Yankees

Ben Clemens

11:11

I actually like Keith Hernandez quite a bit, though not so much for the baseball analysis

Jay Jaffe

11:12

Hershiser has grown on me too

Ben Clemens

11:12

I don't think he would work at a national level but I've liked Francoeur with the Braves

Kvn

11:12

KEITH HERNANDEZ?!

Ben Clemens

11:13

I like someone who talks about cats instead of bothering to watch the Mets sometimes

Car Talk Fan

11:13

On NPR today there was a piece saying the reason the small sample of 60 games was unrepresentative was because there will be less games against the same pitchers (ie the games aren't representative because there just aren't enough games with the same starting lineups). Is that true? I've never heard it framed that way

Ben Clemens

11:13

In a word: no

11:14

Oh!

Bill Walton is the best baseball analyst

Jay Jaffe

11:14

lol

Ben Clemens

11:14

The Walton/Benetti booth in Anaheim last year was the best baseball broadcast I've ever heard

Jay Jaffe

11:15

i am drawing blanks in thinking of others I like, it's been so long

Car Talk Fan

11:15

That's what I figured! It was so odd to hear

Ben Clemens

11:15

Yeah. Very weird way of explaining it, and misleading

11:16

A 97-game season where each team played the other 29 3 times would be more representative than a 60-game season despite actual 0 repeated matchups

Yikes, 87*

homealone

11:16

honestly that whole weekend was solid, Benetti/Schur was quite an enjoyable broadcast to listen to as well

NakedMoleGaetti

11:16

Steve Berthiaume is good

Olan

11:16

Charlie Steiner/Rick Monday are fun to listen to. Not really for analysis though

Dodger Fan

11:17

ARod /s

Ben Clemens

11:17

Potentially blasphemous, but I liked the A-Rod/Pete Rose studio

Girardi

11:17

I was fucking incredible in last year's NLDS

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