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Meg Rowley
5:47
I don't think that if a slightly less analytically inclined team goes far it is going to undo anything.
Eric A Longenhagen
5:48
I want Utley to win another ring.
Meg Rowley
5:48
That would be compelling for sure.
Morbo
5:49
How many people, including, me have been chatting in this instead of the work they are supposedly being paid to do?
Tucci
5:49
@Morbo ME
tb.25
5:49
Me
Meg Rowley
5:50
There is a lot of yelling from this booth.
Acunami
5:50
Not work time in Europe...
Matt
5:50
Very much me
Morbo
5:50
ME!  Apparently this chat has two Morbos.
Meg Rowley
5:52
Oh dear, Rockies.
OddBall Herrera
5:52
See, chatting here IS my work, I'm a Russian troll sent to undermine the public's faith in Carson Cistulli
Muxosk
5:53
MAXIMUM MUNCY
Matt
5:54
It is still one of my chosen hills to die on that MLB schedules their most important, compelling games for when the largest portion of the viewing audience is at work or school. Do they not want to maximize ratings? Do they not want casual fans to tune in and potentially become avid fans? Do they hate me for working a 9-5 job??
Eric A Longenhagen
5:54
I think it's more about travelling in time for the Wild Card games.
Cam
5:55
For months I've been playing Beastie Boys - Brass Monkey in my head. But re-writing the words to "Max Muncy, that funky Muncy". I feel it is appropriate to point that out now.
Ryan
5:55
But also for ESPN having Monday Night Football, right?
Eric A Longenhagen
5:55
Oh yeah, perhaps.
Meg Rowley
5:56
No one wants to compete with Mahomes.
Matt
5:56
That's all well and good for the unexpected tiebreaker games (though maybe rejigger the schedule so the NLWCG is on wednesday and the ALWCG is on tuesday?), but how do you explain the long-planned playoff games on thursday and friday being daytime games?
Meg Rowley
5:57
I imagine travel is a factor there as well, and the weirdness of having to schedule across multiple time zones. It isn't ideal, obviously.
ChadT
5:57
Re: rooting for analytic teams. I'm analytics all the way, but absolutely rooted for the Royals in 2014 and 2015.
Meg Rowley
5:57
And you start rooting for folks you know who work for teams, too.
Joe
5:58
That pitch to Muncy was 99, wow.
Ryan
6:00
I don't know if enough will be said about how terrible Tony Wolters was today, and in fact all year.
Jeff
6:00
In hindsight, wasn't 2015 an anti-analytics team vs an anti-analytics team? I guess the Mets paid lip service to it, but they are clearly very deficient in that department.
Eric A Longenhagen
6:00
KC is sneaky analytical
Odd Van Popeil Pitch in a Can
6:01
A's guy again ... glad Max is breaking out, and I don't know where they could use him in Oakland since it wouldn't be at 1B or 3B, but wow does it make me sad that they released him last year only to see him EXPLODE this year!
Meg Rowley
6:01
None of that Rockies catching group is exactly bathed in glory.
Sean Dolinar
6:01
RE:  WCG schedule swapping. I think TV contracts rules all.  I think the dates and leagues are tied to the network.  That's all conjecture, but that type of thing is what usually happens.
Walter Benjamin
6:01
odds Dave Roberts leaves Buehler in after this inning with the nono going?
Meg Rowley
6:02
Can't imagine the no-no will factor at all
Eric A Longenhagen
6:02
Can't believe he's only walked two so far
Meg Rowley
6:02
God hates puns.
6:03
"He takes analytics to an extreme." "Yeah, he watches pitchers who are similar to him."
OddBall Herrera
6:04
I would imagine analytics adoption for teams is a lot like software companies saying they're going 'to the cloud' to impress customers/stakeholders...some of them actually mean they're using cloud solutions, others mean they opened a Twitter account
Jeff Sullivan
6:04
What's going on in these parts
Meg Rowley
6:04
Some teams are definitely more sophisticated than others, but the difference has compressed dramatically
6:05
Well we've already talked about Gritty and gotten in a rules fight so, typical chat stuff.
Section329
6:05
Jeff!
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