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Meg Rowley FanGraphs Chat - 10/17/18
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Meg Rowley
1:18
I would say Dodgers.
Hello
1:18
Do you think hockey fights are stupid too?
Meg Rowley
1:19
Yes, though grown men having to sit in timeout is delightful.
He Hate Me
1:20
Are the 2018 Red Sox the most underrated 108-win team ever?
Meg Rowley
1:20
How would we begin to quantify that?
Frankie goes to Glendale
1:20
Kiley was saying that he believes Edwin Diaz to have nearly the trade value of Chris Archer.  If so, and someone offered you the package the Rays got for Archer, would you jump on that in a hot minute?
Meg Rowley
1:20
Yes.
Kretin
1:20
MLB needs to change the playoff format so that the winning team in each round gets to take a player from the losing team.
Meg Rowley
1:20
This is a very good take.
He Hate Me
1:21
I haven't heard anyone comparing the Astros trading for the disgraced Osuna for the stretch run to NYY trading for the disgraced Chapman and parlaying him into Gleyber and change. (And of course the Cubs acquiring him for the stretch run.) This isn't the first time it's happened.
Meg Rowley
1:21
What are you talking about? We've all made that comparison. We've all expressed this as another example of the biggest flaw in the current policy.
Don't worry, I have the capacity to be mad at everyone. Me growley after all.
Matt
1:22
Conversely, I have been enjoying the AL game broadcasts pretty well. There's been some flubs here and there, but overall Anderson and Darling have called a good game
Meg Rowley
1:22
I think they have been much better though someone needs to sit them down about the Osuna chatter, which has been poorly done.
Smith
1:22
Dunkin or Starbucks ?
Meg Rowley
1:22
Neither by choice but Starbucks between the two.
Derek
1:23
It doesn't seem like it should be that hard for networks to find announcers that are satisfactory to just about everyone (though maybe it is harder than I am imagining). There are people out there the FanGraphs-skewing audience likes that more casual fans also enjoy (eg. Jason Benetti and basically everyone on the "nerd cast"). So why do they continue to stick with guys like Smoltz? Are there really that many die-hard John Smoltz-as-broadcaster fans that the networks can't risk alienating them?
Meg Rowley
1:23
I think there are a fair number of fans who appreciate his perspective and like his stories. We shouldn't make the mistake he makes and assume our preferences are universal.
Frankie goes to Glendale
1:24
You have to pay to read Brendan, though Meg.
Meg Rowley
1:24
Good. Brendan does good work and you should pay for it. You should pay for all work, to be clear, but he does good work.
Archimedes
1:25
I greatly enjoyed the TBT piece on stadium names. It is truly impressive that the White Sox managed to choose a stadium name worse than U.S. Cellular Field.
Meg Rowley
1:25
One of my favorite things about editing THT is the range of pieces we feature. We go from silly to serious to intense stats in the same week. It's great.
Morbo
1:25
Meg, did you work at Goldman Sachs or the SEC?
Meg Rowley
1:25
Goldman.
1:26
Interned there in college, started full-time in 2008, then left for grad school in 2013.
Mark
1:26
Girls play baseball, just not in the major leagues:
Here's the Women's baseball story I meant to include: https://www.si.com/mlb/2018/09/06/womens-baseball-world-cup-usa-japan?...
Meg Rowley
1:26
They absolutely do!
And more and more.
wooo
1:27
Dont know if you do Fantasy questions but I have to cut two of : Ramirez, T.Turner, Blackmon, Hoskins, Acuna(just mentioning) nola, kluber
Meg Rowley
1:27
I do not, but the Rotographs guys do!
Chacin the Dream
1:28
Meg, you're great.  Help me feel better.  I've rooted for the Brewers my whole life.  I am trying to enjoy the playoffs because they don't come around too often for small markets.  But I had to go bed in the 11th inning last night.  I watched Machado, got mad, then thought about Braun and Hader and your comment that "no team lives up to its receipts."  Remind me that this is supposed to be fun?  And that baseball is fun?  I'm feeling pretty bummed about the ethics of being a fan right now.
Meg Rowley
1:29
Baseball is rad. Baseball is so rad that it can even withstand this sort of nonsense. I also think it is ok to have your fandom wax and wane. You don't have to love it every second.
pirates hurdles
1:29
Wow you were there during the collapse, I bet you have some stories ...
PD
1:29
Right in the middle of the crash. Watching Bear Stearns and Lehman crash must have been scary.
Meg Rowley
1:30
It was very scary and also, I was so junior and working so much that I don't think I was able to fully engage with how scary until after.
When you get to work at 5 and leave at 11 for like a month, you're mostly focused on what is in front of you.
Eminor3rd
1:31
Re-watching the Machado/Aguilar play. Machado shouldn't have done it and should knock it off, BUT -- I think he pretty clearly was trying to send a message WITHOUT hurting Aguilar. If he was trying to hurt him, he would have spiked him, and that DOES hurt -- it used to happen to me when I played 1B in HS/Legion. And Aguilar WAS too far over the bag. So, still a bad way to send a message, but all this talk about intentionally drilling him and him trying to hurt players might be overboard. Boneheaded or not, it seems like he very intentionally did not do the damage he could have done. Just my take.
Meg Rowley
1:32
I understand what you are saying, and I saw some descriptions of that moment that were a bit much, but I think it is important to remember that in a scenario like you're describing, just like with a purpose pitch, you're relying on both really good execution, and the player judging what the "right" level of hurt is. Both seem so risky as to not be worth it.
Ben
1:32
Is there an affordable means for a 20 something to move and live in Seattle or the general PNW at a rate that won't force them to live on the street
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