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JD
2:58
Pretty sure you've answered this before, but what board games would you introduce to a ~6-year-old?
Keith Law
2:59
That's one I'm happy to answer regularly - Ticket to Ride First Journey is perfect. I'm told the kids' versions of Catan and Carcassonne are also fun. You can play One Night Ultimate Werewolf with kids that young too. My niece is 6 and really likes Jaipur now, which is great if a bit surprising because of the foresight required to play it. (She's bright, though.) I think the base Dominion game could work if you're selective about the cards you choose for the table.
Edgar
2:59
Have you seen Josh Jung? My goodness that is a smooth swing.
Keith Law
2:59
Only video. He'll be a tough get but I will try.
David
2:59
Hi Keith. My fellow Cards fans keep suggesting Flaherty is on the same level as Buehler. I disagree - but is it close?
Keith Law
3:00
No, not really close, but Flaherty is really damn good (and, cough, I regularly ranked him on my top 100 too).
Guest
3:00
Despite the horror show that was most of the main category winners, I actually thought the Oscars were better w no host. Either give me the SNL troika as hosts for everything or go hostless, I say.
Keith Law
3:01
Agreed. I thought the show itself was mostly very entertaining, and some of the presenters were great (McCarthy/Henry, Mulaney/Awkwafina). Grierson and Leitch commented on their podcast that if Roma had won Best Picture, everyone would be talking about how great the telecast was.
justin
3:01
Are you still a believer in Arcia?
Keith Law
3:01
Yep. Still young, very very talented.
Paul
3:01
Hey Keith - sounds like UGA has a couple stud pitchers for the 2020 draft. Excited to get back to Athens??
Keith Law
3:02
Hancock maybe, Wilcox for '21. I think I'll end up there this year to see a road team and get a look at Schunk.
Jay
3:02
ESPN subscription renewal coming soon. Are you able to share any insights on your ongoing status at ESPN (ie. beyond 2019)?
Keith Law
3:02
I have no updates - my contract runs through December, and that's all.
Ira
3:02
Why aren’t more players taught multiple positions when being developed in the minors? It would give teams more flexibility and the player would have added value.
Keith Law
3:03
I feel like most teams do this already, no? I hear it constantly when making calls for the rankings.
Cartoons Plural
3:03
Tyler Glasnow's pause in his delivery, good or bad thing?
Keith Law
3:03
Neither. What may be good for one pitcher may be bad for another.
Brian
3:03
I really thought nothing would beat Don Jr as the real life GOB Bluth and then came Matthew Calamari
Keith Law
3:04
I so wanted to make a Gene Parmesan joke but Lana Berry beat me to it.
EL
3:04
Canadian baseball fan who must know: Who's the better Naylor? The better Pompey?
Keith Law
3:04
The younger, and the younger.
Bill
3:04
Can Keon Broxton hit enough to be an everyday CFer?
Keith Law
3:04
IMO no. Did it once, for most of a year, that's it.
JR
3:04
Do you bother watching Spring Training games on mlb.tv? I'm guessing only if you know a top prospect is going to be playing?
Keith Law
3:05
Because I often can't see the angles I want I find the experience rather frustrating. And it's spring training, where the games are (Allen Iverson voice) PRAC-tice.
Andy
3:05
I am trying to get into earlier Opeth. They are interesting musically, but I really can't figure out how to like the harsh singing. While I can understand the music needs the harsh singing, it completely takes me out of the music. How do you compensate for music that's good, other than cookie monster growling?
Keith Law
3:05
I hear you (pun intended). I can tune that out with some artists, like Opeth, less with others, like Obituary, who have long done very interesting stuff on the border of thrash and death metal but whose singer sounds like he's flossing with a chainsaw.
Zihuatanejo
3:06
In a recent spring training game, in all but 3 PAs for the entire game the Dodger hitters swung at the first pitch they saw.  Do you think that was: 1) a random thing that happened; 2) a directive from the dugout; or 3) an inside joke between the players?
Keith Law
3:06
I'd guess 2, then 3, but not 1.
Robert
3:06
Did you drop in to any new restaurants in austin last week?
Keith Law
3:06
Better Half, Micklethwait, Backspace, Cane Rosso (been to the Dallas one).
JD
3:07
Doesn't keeping somebody down for service time reasons violate the CBA? I thought that was why management always pretends it's for other reasons, and you occasionally get grievances. So it's not just "the best business decision," it's against the rules
Keith Law
3:07
It does. But you can't prove it if they don't admit it.
PULLEY
3:07
Regarding Vlad Jr and the BS service time manipulation... why doesnt a player like him or kris Bryant in 2015, when it's obvious they are being held down for manipulation purposes only come out and say something like "if I am sent down I will not negotiate any extension in the future and will fully explore free agency no matter what."
Keith Law
3:07
Idle threat.
Zach
3:07
Minimum Wage - Federal steps in because if not Texas and Mississippi would be paying $2.50 an hour.
Keith Law
3:07
You think they'd pay that much?
Dave
3:08
I was reading Fangraphs Top Prospects list (I know you think highly of them and work with them at times) and in their writeup of Andres Gimenez (on which they had him ranked much higher than you) they mention that ppl may have gotten a different impression on him based on when they saw him. They said he looked pretty blah in the AFL but very possibily couldve been due to fatigue from a long season. I know that you saw him in person at the AFL and came away relatively “meh” on his hitting. Did you factor in the potential fatigue aspect at that point or do you feel that that may be overblown.
Keith Law
3:08
I do factor that in, but 1) that's not the only time I saw him and 2) I ask a *lot* of people before doing those rankings.
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