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Meg Rowley FanGraphs Chat - 8/20/19
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Archer
3:03
What are your thoughts on adding a mercy rule? Five years ago, I feel like I would have said no way, but the amount of position players pitching in meaningless games has made me start to think it's a decent idea.
Meg Rowley
3:03
We also have just an absurd number of blow outs. I don't think I'm in favor right now, but I'm more open to thinking about it than I've been in years past.
Who else?
3:04
Not being snarky, but what other team would be considered a persistent championship runner up to which the Dodgers could be compared if they were to lose again?
Meg Rowley
3:04
place in the landscape, approach of the team, franchise history all strike me as different
Innocent Person
3:05
When will you accept my Instagram request?
Meg Rowley
3:07
Thought about not putting this into the chat, because it's a bummer and gives some amount of satisfaction to a person who may be trolling, but shall end with a reminder that joking around after women identifying troubling behavior with shades of that behavior is pretty dopey, and not helpful, and it would be nice to not see it.
Dodgers Game 4 starter
3:07
Who would be your game 4 playoff starter for the Dodgers? Assuming Ryu, Buehler, Kershaw 1-2-3. Options include: Hill (IL), May, Maeda, Gonsolin, Urias.
Meg Rowley
3:08
Probably Maeda
Dan
3:08
As someone who as lamented the cost of attending MLB games in the past, I would hope you would never seriously consider supporting a mercy rule. When a family spends several hundred dollars to attend a game, they deserve 9.
Meg Rowley
3:08
This is a fair point I had not considered.
Me
3:09
Over or under 50% chance that Cole stays with the Astros?
Meg Rowley
3:09
without inside info, I'd say under just based on what he's likely to command and their decision to bring in Greinke.
Fair enough
3:09
My dodger fan friends are incredibly frustrated and calling themselves the Bills though. But your points are valid.
Meg Rowley
3:10
Oh, I would not make any claims to know how it feels as a fan.
I am unfamiliar with the experience of perpetual contention.
Mason
3:10
Thinking about a mercy rule...if teams were allowed to forfeit, do you think they would? On one hand, I would think a manager might consider forfeiting before using a position player to pitch, but on the other I could seem the backlash being quite strong if a manager forfeited a game.
Meg Rowley
3:11
I can't imagine they would
I can't imagine we can have baseball in a world of frequent forfeits -- we make the Orioles play 162. Can you imagine if they could just go home and eat snacks?
Seamus Catuli
3:11
Meg, please weigh in on the Popeyes vs Chik fil a/everyone else chicken sandwich debate
Meg Rowley
3:12
Eat what you like best imo
Smucky the Cat
3:13
Outside of EW, what other podcasts do you like?
Meg Rowley
3:14
I listen to a lot of podcasts on film, tv, and pop culture, and have a regular political pod rotation, but honestly, the thing I get the most excited for when I have a new episode is How Did This Get Made?
3:15
Alright, pals, I need to get rolling so I can edit before a podcast recording. Thank you for the questions, and sorry for what I didn't get to.
Until next week!
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