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FanGraphs World Series Game 1 Chat

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GoBarves

11:32

Some of those are amazing, Dan

Dan Szymborski

11:32

I had a few of the articles written!

Jeremy

11:32

Spin Doctors is secretly a baseball band name.

BigDaddeh

11:32

Gotta give Bernie Williams' band some love

David Laurila

11:32

Bernie Williams may well be a better guitar player than he was a baseball player. Dead serious in saying that.

LFC Mike

11:33

relegation is part of the culture of European soccer. Lower tier teams would never accept being in the a certain tier forever. There are parachute payments to teams that are relegated so they don’t slide down one or two tiers after relegation.

Dan Szymborski

11:34

Since we're on a commercial, I had the neural network write the plot to the FanGraphs movie a while back.

ChuckNChino

11:35

I'd pay to see The Three Finger Browns

David Laurila

11:35

There was a Connecticut-based band called “The Del Crandalls” in the 1990s.

11:35

I would love to see a promotion/relegation system with a regional component in college sports. Vandy should be playing baseball at the highest level but not football.

Dan Szymborski

11:35

I'd buy their albums just from the band name!

John Thacker

11:35

The funny thing about English soccer is that now grumpy old timers complain about no one caring about the FA Cup as much these days.

GoBarves

11:35

lol Dinklage as Sporer!

ChuckNChino

11:35

Bernie Williams is a legit guitarist.

Dan Szymborski

11:35

None of the casting choices are great. Sasso for me is probably fine, but Mark Addy would be better.

11:36

Who would make a good David? Ben Whishaw?

Jeremy

11:36

Exit Velocity would be a good baseball band name.

Shaquille Oatmeal

11:36

Thinking about Bernie in retirement made me think of Dave Roberts' immediate retirement hobby: wine. He started "Red Stitch Wine". How did they have the opportunity to go "Red Lace Wine" and miss it. Sexy and baseball related.

Jeremy

11:37

Wow, Altuve.

John Thacker

11:37

Trying to simultaneously solve complaints of "more teams should be in the playoffs", "the playoffs should be less random", and "the playoffs shouldn't run into November" is close to impossible, at least without shortening the regular season. I really think that the current system is a local maximum for satisfying different people.

Shaquille Oatmeal

11:37

The Will to Win is a gWAR cover band.

GoBarves

11:37

TOOTBLAN as an EDM DJ

David Laurila

11:38

The Isotopes Punk Rock Baseball Club has a good song called “The Ballad of Rey Ordonez.”

Dan Szymborski

11:39

ChuckNChino

11:40

or TINSTAAP

The LOOGY's

Shaquille Oatmeal

11:41

I watched Ken Burns' "Baseball" 1 time a decade ago, and still sing that awful "Hey, Joe, whaddya know, Jumpin Joe Dimaggio" song at least twice a week. Please no new baseball songs. I beg thee.

Fez

11:42

Who’s the highest 20-80 scale player in this game? What’s the number?

David Laurila

11:42

Barbara Manning & San Francisco Seals did a great cover of that song.

Jeremy

11:42

Now I want to hear about the best *obscure* baseball-related songs. No picking "Centerfield", "Piazza, New York Catcher", "Paradise By the Dashboard Light", or "Joltin' Joe DiMaggio". I will also accept songs that sound like they are about baseball, but actually aren't.

Quarantino Martinez

11:42

That Stanek bellyflop was amazing

RTJ

11:44

well that was a bit of a mess

GoBarves

11:44

haha 37.5 EV on that hit for Soler

Dan Szymborski

11:44

What about Tony Conigliaro?