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AvatarAlex Sonty
11:45
lol
Jeremy
11:45
Opening bid for "songs that sound like they are about baseball, but actually aren't":
AvatarDan Szymborski
11:45
And that's 6-1
Charles Ives was a HUGE baseball fan
ChuckNChino
11:45
Stanek had to re-direct, thinking he was covering 1st...
Ghost of Ebbets Field
11:46
Mickey Owens had the most famous WS passed ball.
Quarantino Martinez
11:46
He looked like a little kid who's technically playing a sport but is really just in it for rolling around in the grass.
AvatarDavid Laurila
11:46
That was a great slide.
Blue Morpho
11:46
Love the aggressive send there
AvatarAlex Sonty
11:46
More like MANsby
Kate Mitchell
11:47
If you want *obscure* there's also this Mono Puff song (one of the They Might Be Giants guys' solo project) about Bill "Spaceman" Lee
AvatarDan Szymborski
Harmon Ripkowski
11:48
Quick website question: Is there any place I can see a pitchers WAA for a given season on fangraphs?
AvatarDan Szymborski
11:48
I don't THINK so but I could be wrong
RTJ
11:48
Dan-  that book in that link on Ives was written by my Uncle
AvatarDan Szymborski
11:48
Small world!
ChuckNChino
11:49
Wonder if Charles is related to Burl Ives?
AvatarDan Szymborski
11:49
No idea
RTJ
11:49
that's the one!
AvatarDan Szymborski
11:50
I've been meaning to track it down since a SABR presentation about it
about Ives
Jeremy
11:50
"Past Time" is like "Talkin' Baseball" if "Talkin' Baseball" was good. (Note: I say this as someone who listened to Terry Cashman's album over and over as a kid.)
11:51
As a huge TMBG fan, I can't believe I didn't know that Mono Puff did a song about Bill Lee!
Phil
11:51
Don't think so. Burl Ives was a country boy, Charles was old money.
AvatarDan Szymborski
11:51
I want to see the reply on that jump
replay
Jeremy
11:52
What was Duvall trying to accomplish with that...leap?
AvatarDan Szymborski
11:52
I was trying to figure out what line he was taking
AvatarDavid Laurila
11:52
I think it was back in the ALDS Game 1 Astros-White Sox chat when I opined that Yordan Alvarez might be the most-underrated hitter in the game. Something like that.
AvatarAlex Sonty
11:52
Yordan poked it 400+ feet
AvatarDan Szymborski
11:52
it's fun watching him swing when he gets extended
AvatarAlex Sonty
11:53
Yordan is a special hitter
Kate Mitchell
11:53
To answer the earlier question on who the best player in this game is on a 20-80 scale, it has to be Yordan, right? I think he's close to that Soto-Acuña-Tatís superstar tier
ChuckNChino
11:53
Come on 'Stros, make a game of this!
AvatarAlex Sonty
11:53
Yordan has 70 power, right?
65 raw power in 2019
Hugh Duffy
11:54
Duvall was trying to jump to catch it. Misplayed it.
ChuckNChino
11:54
Duvall has to lose the ball, right?
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