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Heather
2:33
Did you have a reaction to everybody and their dog getting into the HOF a couple of weeks ago?
Keith Law
2:33
That process has become a farce. It's largely invalidated the writers' votes. Jim Kaat was never a Hall of Famer. Neither was Harold Baines. The players and managers on the committees are just putting in their buddies.
John
2:33
As a lefty who loves to cook, how do you feel about the municipalities banning gas stoves in new construction?
Keith Law
2:34
Sucks for cooking, but the environmental damage wrought by fracking is no joke.
JR
2:34
Have/will you watch new Spiderman or Matrix movies? Or not your thing?
Keith Law
2:34
Zero interest in the Matrix movie. I only watched the first one and thought it was fine but incredibly derivative.
Fradog
2:34
Can Espinal be MLB avg for Jays? Love the glove but not sold on bat.
Keith Law
2:34
Great extra player. Not a regular for me. Same reason you said.
ChrisP
2:34
I had someone go off about "big pharma" and how it's impacting society...and it just made me think that these people have no idea what the reason is behind people living longer today than 100 years ago. It's just this big elusive "evil" thing to them.
Keith Law
2:35
It's something they read on Facebook, not something they understand. There's this sort of magical thinking about the human body that occupies most of the people who oppose Big Pharma ... sometimes it's a religious belief, sometimes it's a false appeal to nature, sometimes it's just ignorance, thinking the body is like a car or other machine that behaves predictably in response to treatments. We're just not smart.
Sedona
2:35
Out of Ryne Nelson, Drey Jameson and Brandon Pfaadt.... which ones has the best chance to be a mid rotation arm?
Keith Law
2:36
That will certainly be answered in the Dbacks top 20 in January.
Cubbie Blue
2:36
Reginald Preciado, Kevin Alcantara, and James Triantos seemed to be getting a lot of buzz in short season ball.   You find them at least interesting as well?
Keith Law
2:36
I definitely answered that in the Rizzo trade writeup and Prospect of the Year columns.
John
2:36
This might seem like an odd question, but if you had a chance to do it again in the present day, would you go to Harvard again?  I hold the Ivy League schools in high regard, but depending on your major, I'd bet you might get a slightly better education at one of the top liberal arts schools.  (No bias -- my alma mater is not in either category.)
Keith Law
2:37
Yes, because of the value of the name, and the power of the school's network. But I agree I would have gotten a better education at a smaller school, and probably would have enjoyed it more.
Chris
2:37
What do you think about sports leagues shortening quarantine rules for vaccinated players who test positive?
Keith Law
2:37
As long as that's based on the latest evidence, sure.
Chris
2:37
Just FYI I watched new Matrix last night and it was pretty terrible.  And I liked the first 3 (esp the first 2)
Keith Law
2:37
I'm not shocked. Fan service films/books usually aren't very good.
Chris
2:38
i know youre usually *yawn* about the R5 draft, but im still having Whitlock PTSD, do you think someone could take Josh Breaux as DH/3rd C and I'd watch him bash homers?
Keith Law
2:38
Doubt that one.
I don't think he's that good and I don't think he gets taken/kept.
2:39
Maria Torres wrote up a list of some Rule 5 candidates, and while I wouldn't select all of those guys if I were a GM, there were some good names on there. Gilberto Jimenez is the best prospect who was left unprotected: https://theathletic.com/3020049/2021/12/16/a-rule-5-draft-candidate-fr...
Jenna
2:40
I know you have no interest in this whatsoever, but I'd seriously vote for you for president. Thoroughly impressed with your ideas, common sense, analytical abilities, virtually everything you opine. This country would be better off, I have no doubt.
Keith Law
2:40
Thank you, but that job would destroy me. I'm not cut out for that line of work, even assuming I could get more than my immediate family to vote for me.
Appa Yip Yip
2:40
My favourite thing (I hate it) about the people complaining about big pharma vaccines is that treatment is orders of magnitudes more profitable than prevention. Big pharma would love nothing more than to sell monoclonal antibody treatments in perpetuity to unvaxxed idiots.
Keith Law
2:41
Or a pill you have to take every day for the rest of your life. That's the business model, and it's why we have far more treatments for things like depression or high cholesterol or ADHD, even in the absence of clear evidence of efficacy, and fewer new antibiotics.
Jay
2:41
I watched the Veterans' Committee HOF announcement on the MLB Network.  All of the announcers, without exception, acted like it was Babe Ruth, Walter Johnson, and Satchel Paige finally getting the call.  Are the announcers told to keep it upbeat, and to keep any dissenting opinions of HOF unworthiness to the themselves?
Keith Law
2:41
State Television.
Yinka Double Dare
2:41
Less perturbed at getting rid of gas ranges now that there's an alternative to the electric coils, which are horrid. Induction ranges do pretty well for changing your temp quickly more like gas, although you have to get compatible cookware.
Keith Law
2:41
Which is a big expense for most people.
Joe
2:41
A lot of HOF voters have tied themselves in knots making excuses not to vote for anyone they can loosely tie to PEDs in any way. Now the same guys are tying themselves in knots trying to explain why it's not hypocritical to vote for David Ortiz on the first ballot. It's almost like it was never really about PEDs, and was just about keeping out the guys they didn't like personally.
Keith Law
2:42
No question. If you vote for Ortiz, and not A-Rod, you've dropped the curtain.
John
2:42
I learned from my aunt last night that there is an underworld of children being farmed for their adrenaline.  News you can use.
Keith Law
2:42
Do they do that in pizzeria basements?
CY
2:42
I know it’s early, but thoughts on Druw Jones or Elijah Green for the Rangers at #3?
Keith Law
2:42
There are a lot of other players in this draft class. Those are just the most famous ones.
Sedona
2:42
Do you think Mize becomes a #2 starter?
Keith Law
2:43
Yes. I'm still a fan, even though we haven't seen what I thought we'd see from him when he was first drafted.
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