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AvatarDan Szymborski
3:34
"Advantage: O'Day"
Guest
3:35
"In chess, I like to lose all my pawns immediately, get them off the board to just focus on the important pieces." -A-rod
Bravos
3:35
That walk of Votto feels like it was dumb. Hindsight is 20/20 and all but it's not like he's been hitting the ball hard today, or even this season
Guest
3:36
Mike Kiger came up earlier in the chat, and I finally found an update on what happened to him.  Describing life after his playing career, he said: "“Nobody took a chance on me but myself. I fought my way back from homelessness, the depths of depression, and self-medicating the pain of my divorce and the pain of not playing baseball anymore to the pinnacle of where I’m at now, and my bright future as a professional baseball coach.” https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/sports/2017/08/08/tabitha-s...
AvatarJay Jaffe
3:37
wow, had forgotten the details on him, but Tabitha Soren's post-Moneyball project was pretty cool
Dusty
3:36
Duh--pawns clog up the chess board like runners clogging up bases.
AvatarDan Szymborski
3:38
Well that was anti-climactic
Tommy
3:38
Is being a broadcaster a hard job?
AvatarDan Szymborski
3:38
It is! I would not be a good one.
Guest
3:38
"for blackjack, I always hit on 20. Matty, you might bust sometimes but you just never know what that dealer has"
AvatarDan Szymborski
3:39
"Bet heavily when you draw 7-2. Sometimes you'll get two pair on the flop and nobody will have any idea!"
Bravos
3:39
Elite reliever Tyler Matzek, just like everyone predicted
David K
3:39
Trying to watch the Braves/Reds game but Arod is killing me and got me thinking If Cohen isn’t approved and Arod becomes the Mets owner I might take a few years off from baseball, Arod is such a buffoon
AvatarDan Szymborski
3:39
It would get A-Rod off the broadcast!
v2micca
3:40
Top of their line-up vs the third guy out of the Red's bullpen.  If the Braves can't break through here.....
Tim Tebow's Thunder Thighs
3:41
ARod becomes owner of the Mets, installs himself as the color guy on every home broadcast
Morbo
3:41
Dan Szymborski: Answer:"It would get A-Rod off the broadcast!"
"What is the number one reason I hoped he would succeed in buying the Mets, Alex?"
AvatarDan Szymborski
3:43
That anecdote went absolutely nowhere.
"I'm going spend two minutes telling this story and the moral is if you think small, big things can happen."
Think small kids and you can achieve your limited dreams!
Colin
3:44
Real surprised not Garrett with Freeman up this inning
Guest
3:44
Whose remaining bullpen options do you like more in Reds-Braves?
AvatarJay Jaffe
3:44
Reds still have Bradley and Garrett
Tony Wolfe
3:44
Reds but I like the Braves' offense more
Guest
3:45
Dan that sounded dangerously close to a child trafficking  lol
Guest
3:45
Ok, ARod isn't great, but that's really not terrible advice.  Well-received adages like "the journey of a 1000 miles begins with a single step" are essentially communicating the same message.
AvatarDan Szymborski
3:45
Yeah, but he's talking about postseason play. Big things win postseason games.
AvatarJay Jaffe
3:46
Ian Happ homer puts Cubs on top 1-0 in 5th
Morbo
3:47
Jay, for some reason your profile photo always reminds me of Jack Nicholson in a baseball hat
AvatarJay Jaffe
3:48
haha thanks. Taken during last spring's FanGraphs outing, the day we went to ... some college game about an hour outside of Phoenix. Damned if I can remember who
Colin
3:48
Maybe Bell is thinking of using Lorenzen as a long man now unless he gets into trouble. He can go several innings.
Tony Wolfe
3:48
That's my guess
Peter
3:48
4 concurrent games...exciting!  5 concurrent games...overwhelming
AvatarJay Jaffe
3:49
4 is overwhelming. Even 3 i'm missing a whole lot of what's happening
King Gizzard
3:49
Once again the Twins offense withers on the vine in the playoffs. People talk about their pitching not being up to snuff, but since 2003, they have been losing these 2-1 games every damn year.
AvatarJay Jaffe
3:50
Hey, don't forget their defense crapping out
King Gizzard
3:51
That Polanco play yesterday was the most 2020 moment yet.
Guest
3:51
the twins losing streak almost surely is just weird random variance, right? it's been through different GMs, players, coaches, etc.
Tony Wolfe
3:52
suicide squeeze, cowards
AvatarJay Jaffe
3:53
Yes. Attaching it to some kind of character flaw of the players or organizational shortcoming of the front office is a bit of a stretch, at least aside from the 2000s f/o's resistance to power pitching. It's just a bunch of things going wrong, year after year after year, somewhat improbably
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