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Tom C
2:07
The team hate accusations have been hilarious as usual. Take the Orioles fans - I looked it up, the team has made the playoffs 3 times this century. They have 6 total winning seasons. What have they been so happy about that they get mad because your assessment doesn’t match other reviews?
Keith Law
2:09
Also, the expectation that a team that has completely ignored international scouting - you know, where the best player in the NL came from, where the #1 and #3 prospects on my top 100 came from as well as the guys at 16 and 19 and 20 and 24 and 25 and 25 - for a decade, and that has zero international prospects of their own signing in their top 20, would have a top ten system is fucking DELUSIONAL.
John
2:09
Friends in Baltimore are worried the O's are eventually going to leave, with Nashville as a potential destination. Have you heard these rumors and, if so, any sense of it actually happening?
Keith Law
2:10
I've never heard that. Only one team has relocated in my lifetime, and that was an extraordinary situation. MLB does not want to allow franchise relocations without an extremely high bar to clear. They just want to use the relocations as a threat.
Tom
2:10
Can singer be a good number 3? He's got the command for it i feel like
Keith Law
2:10
He doesn't have the command and he doesn't have the third pitch for it.
Appa Yip Yip
2:10
Cancel culture isn't real. Anyone who claims to have been "cancelled" is just experiencing consequences for the first time and they still get to publish self indulgent screeds on the opinion pages of the new york times. The literal opposite of having their voice taken away.
Keith Law
2:11
I agree. Bari Weiss got "cancelled," even though her entire career started with her trying to cancel professors she didn't like, and she was rewarded with a job at the New York Post. It's all a giant grift, pandering to the alt-white. And it works.
G
2:11
Nick Gonzales' profile (hitter friendly college environment, small sample strong performance in the cape,) gives me bad Kevin Newman vibes. Is there concern his bat won't ever play enough for 2b?
Keith Law
2:12
Newman was a better runner and played shortstop better in college than Gonzales did. I would say Gonzales shows more with his present hit tool, though.
Michael
2:12
Do surprise players that make it big ever make you recalibrate how you look at things?  Being a Brewers fan, it seems like most of our high rated prospects tank, but we get gems out of left field like Brandon Woodruff (though I will admit you were earlier on him than most).
Keith Law
2:12
Yes, they do, and I appreciate you remembering I had Woodruff on a top 100 (and I'm still hanging on to Zack Brown, pecan pie, and homemade wine).
Max
2:13
Keith, you've mentioned "CSA" a couple of times in the chat.  What is that?
Keith Law
2:13
Community Supported Agriculture.
addoeh
2:13
If you had a wedding reception with a large group of friends/family, what songs would have made your "do not play" list?
Keith Law
2:13
Oh, we had one. Maybe I'll publish our Spotify wedding playlist?
Brian
2:13
I havent been able to join in a while and wanted your opinion on something that came up a few months back - there was an inaccurate statistics floating around social media about suicides and a line about the Prevention Hotline. I hate made up stats as much as anyone but at what point does the message (call the Hotline) become greater than the means by which it went viral (the made up stat)?
Keith Law
2:14
The message wasn't call the hotline, though. The message was "end the lockdowns." And it was manipulative folderol from people whose real interest was not saving lives, but making money.
Eric
2:14
Just want to send prayers and love to Pedro Gomez’s family, friends, loved ones and anyone who knew or followed him. What a horrible loss.
Keith Law
2:14
Horrible. Absolutely unfathomable. We have lost way too many people just in our little corner of the sports world in the last twelve months.
Cryptologist
2:15
How is crypto an environmental disaster?
Keith Law
2:16
Mining bitcoin uses 121 TWh per year, almost as much electricity as the entire country of Norway. And it has no societal value at all.
Pat
2:16
In regards to international scouting "Where the best player in the NL came from" doesn't narrow it down enough. Tatis? Soto? Acuna? That, alone, is reason enough to scout internationally, no?
Keith Law
2:18
You would think. Of the four fan bases most whiny about my org rankings, three are fans of teams - the White Sox, the Tigers, and the Orioles - who have gotten little to nothing from the international side.
The Sloth
2:18
Was there a Phish song in your wedding playlist? and why was it "Waste"?
Keith Law
2:18
"Heavy Things" and "Bouncing Around the Room."
2:19
OK, that's all for this week, but I will try to do another one next Thursday once the top 20s have all run. Thank you all so much for reading and subscribing and for all of your questions. The AL will run this week and the NL next. Stay safe and please wear your masks - two masks, really - as we're finally seeing the light at the end of the COVID-19 tunnel.
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