JotCast | FanGraphs Opening Day 2020 Chat - Part I

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See! You! Later!

7:55

where are you in the show

Dan Szymborski

7:55

We're in the ASG week.

Dodger Fan

7:55

Only correct takes, you clearly haven't been to a Dodger Stadium playoff game

5 Run Homer

7:56

Stanton’s batting stance is lowkey weird as hell

Anonymous

7:56

oh right. Giancarlo Stanton does that a lot too

Tony Wolfe

7:56

is "giancarlo stanton almost played tight end" the antithesis of "antonio gates was a basketball player"?

SDP

7:57

Tyler Wade scored from first?? That ball was hit hard! And Stevenson cut it off!

JaAm

7:57

I think it's more like "Tyler Wade is running like a wide receiver going from 1st to Home"

Dan Szymborski

7:58

See, these ads of people biking and running alongside dangerous cliffs doesn't make me want to go to Dick's

Kvn

7:59

RIP Modell's. Dick's out here rubbing it in.

Dan Szymborski

7:59

That's not really TWO kitchens Chipotle

8:00

There are still other writers, it' nost JUST Butter

Buster

Guest

8:00

Dick Pole turns 70 this year.

Dodger Fan

8:00

"Secondary leadoff man" Victor Robles

rusty shackleford

8:00

one doesn't usually associate jogging or biking with danger

5 Run Homer

8:00

Look at all those people not distancing

Dodger Fan

8:00

Did he just call Robles...Soto?

Oddball Herrera

8:01

Looks like Fauci has entered the pantheon of all time terrible first pitches. How hard is it people?!

Dan Szymborski

8:01

He's 79!

Tony Wolfe

8:02

It is weird to talk a bunch about how there aren't fans in the stands because of the safety regulations and then show a bunch of people outside the park sitting exactly as close to each other as they would be in the stadium

Dan Szymborski

8:02

Dodger Fan

8:02

WEAR MASKS GUYS - I'm talking to you people walking the game from other buildings

Guest

8:02

For those of us not watching, are they social distancing on the bench?

Dan Szymborski

8:02

Not particularly

8:03

I do find it funny that there's this group of writers horrified that players are being forced to play baseball at all

while all these players are mostly "whatever"

Quarantino Martinez

8:03

But they're not as packed as usual, imo

Dan Szymborski

8:03

No, but it's not six feet either

JaAm

8:03

Teams should just let something like 3 fans into the stadium nosebleeds

Advice From A-Rod

8:03

The winner will be the team that scores the most runs

Dan Szymborski

8:03

I think what happens is there gets some creeping there

first it's 3 and then it's 6

and then you're like eric cartman letting the first 11,000 people in so that you can pay the pitcher

only correct takes

8:03

ok maybe it is carly rae jespen lmao i don't think i've seen that one

Kvn

8:04

"Alex you can speak to this better than any of us..."

I doubt it.

Dan Szymborski

8:04

Alex should be proud of how those negotiations went? And the leadership from ownership?

I can smell Manfred's butt on A-Rod's nose from here.

Oddball Herrera

8:04

There is a group of sports writers who have one schtick - be outraged and accuse people of being greedy. Not in the least surprised they are trying to generate pushback against starting the season, because that's their thing

Dan Szymborski

8:05

Here's the thing about this, it's important to not gratuitously ban things because then you erode support for the actual things you need to ban

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