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Keith Law
1:46
Kitchen table.
Jeff
1:46
Hey Klaw, how much is the Reds defense gonna suffer with Moose at 2nd and Castellanos playing any OF position?
Keith Law
1:46
And not a true CF on the roster. It's going to matter. Bauer is going to throw a lot of baseballs into centerfield this year.
Mitchell
1:46
Not really a question, but wanted to say after months of holding off, your top 100 was the tipping point for me subscribing to the Athletic. Have to say, damn I'm glad I did it. Some amazing content.
Keith Law
1:47
It's a great site. The app is really strong too.
John
1:47
Similar to one of your answers above, I've heard rumors that the MLB investigation uncovered six teams engaged in sign stealing beyond the usual cat and mouse game.  Without asking you to name names, do you have a feel for which teams those are?
Keith Law
1:47
I think I wrote that rumor, no? I have a list of the six supposed perpetrators. One of them seems totally wrong to me.
Paul
1:47
Hey Keith - how was the food on your ATL/Athens trip? Anything 60+? Saw your Five and Ten pic... man I miss that place!
Keith Law
1:48
That meal was off the charts good. Also ate at The Grit, The Globe (mostly for beer), 1000 Faces, Zombie Coffee + Donuts, then hit Pho Nam at Krog St when we got back to Atlanta.
oh and Spiller Park at Ponce City Market Sunday morning.
Foster
1:48
I seem to recall that you have a fairly strong distaste for the music of Vampire Weekend. Any specific reason for this?
Keith Law
1:48
The reason is their music.
Kevin w
1:49
Who is your preferred candidate (besides the obvious anyone who can beat trump)?
Keith Law
1:49
Warren.
Dr. Bob
1:49
According to a guy on NPR yesterday (missed the name), the SARS virus was arrested because the CDC worked with China and other countries to contain it. Trump has cut the CDC budget and banned them from working with China. I am more concerned with Coronavirus than the other diseases that didn't turn into pandemics.
Keith Law
1:49
Excellent point. The gutting of the CDC was going to hurt us at some point. It has just happened sooner rather than later.
Joe
1:49
Have you ever considered turning your newsletter into a Patreon or Substack and charging for it (and maybe writing a little more often).  I always enjoy reading it.
Keith Law
1:50
I appreciate that, but I don't think it would be right for me to monetize that. You folks pay for my content at The Athletic and I am compensated that way.
rick
1:50
do you use marijuana, thc, cbd products?
Keith Law
1:50
I have not. One thing I enjoyed about Pain and Glory was the scene where Antonio Banderas' character jokes about trying heroin for the first time at age ~60. It me (well, I haven't tried heroin, but you get the idea).
Dave
1:50
For someone like Riley Greene, who you expect to end up in LF, but the Tigers are playing in CF... how much cost is there to keeping him in CF for now?  Are Tigers losing something by not trying to develop him as the best LF he can be? Or is keeping a player as far "left" on the defensive spectrum as possible for as long as possible always worthwhile?  Curious about the underlying philosophy here.
Keith Law
1:51
Don't think there's a cost there, but there might be one to leaving a player at 2b or C too long due to injury risk.
rick
1:51
my mom is a hard-core republican, has been all her life. she said she watched the dem debates with an open mind, but hated how everyone came off in SC. but she said she likes tulsi, and is open to others like klobuchar. even though tulsi is an abhorrent candidate, should i cut my mom a break since she's actually open to not voting trump?
Keith Law
1:52
If she likes Tulsi, then she was probably never voting Democrat in the first place.
Sammy Sosa
1:52
Remember when Obama was a socialist for pushing a Republican healthcare plan?
Keith Law
1:52
Yep, same one they want to dismantle because a black man pushed it.
Andy
1:52
My favorite reaction to your prospect list in the comments and on Twitter was asking if you forgot about x player. Yes, I'm sure after multiple editing processes and months of writing you just didn't remember about this possible top 150 guy.
Keith Law
1:53
Someone asked a year ago if I forgot Luis Garcia (Washington). That person is nowhere to be found after Garcia posted a .280 OBP in AA. So weird, I was sure I'd get an apology.
Matt
1:53
Has here been any update on JT Ginn? Are you able to speculate on his draft ranking or is it too early?
Keith Law
1:53
He's off the board until he pitches again.
JJ
1:54
As a lifelong resident of Massachusetts, I can tell you that nobody "embraces" Elizabeth Warren.  She's usually the smartest person in the room, but she just doesn't connect with voters on a personal level.  She lacks the personal likeability of a Bush 43 or Obama that one needs to be elected president.  To put in in scouting terms, "low ceiling, high floor".  Her brains make her an acceptable senator, but that's as far as she'll go, and it has nothing to do with her gender.
Keith Law
1:54
Maybe she should smile more.
Jim
1:54
Regarding the "others of note", I could have sworn they weren't there for Cleveland and KC; sorry about that. They're missing for Detroit, Minnesota and Chicago, but I guess not all merit the section.
Keith Law
1:54
Sometimes I struggle to get to 20 names worth writing about; sometimes I have closer to 30. But they are all over the team writeups.
Nate
1:55
Any hope Jonathan India ends up an above average regular?
Keith Law
1:55
Would like to see if he makes better contact this year with a healthy wrist.
Kevin
1:55
Just wanted to say first I ended my ESPN+ and switched to Athletic to day to follow you there (your old place is also not friendly to Canadians trying to subscribe, so made it easier).
Keith Law
1:55
Thank you. No idea why ESPN wouldn't consider carving out an Insider-like option for international readers.
Steve
1:55
anecdotal, but one reason Warren might not be getting traction as a Bernie alternative among younger voters is the whole "identified as Native American" controversy, which I had thought was a cudgel limited to Trump & the right with "Pocahontas". When I mentioned my Warren support, my very liberal college junior son and some of his friends dismissed her as another Rachel Dolezal.
Keith Law
1:56
Well that's their error, isn't it?
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