You are viewing the chat in desktop mode. Click here to switch to mobile view.
X
Winter Meetings Live Blog, Day 3
powered byJotCast
Prev Page View Full Chat
Brandon
2:56
One difference from the O's point of view is there isn't some third party profiting from the underpayment of minor leaguers and the loss of flexibility for draftees.  It's not to say there is no inconsistency there, but it would be worse if Machado only got 500K, but the O's had to pay the owner of some minor league team some larger amount of money for the right to talk to him about the preset lower wage.  Plus that system has just been around so long that it feels more like background than some novel thing to dislike.
AvatarDan Szymborski
2:56
It would be a weird philosophy to be against exploiting players mainly only when you don't get to do it.
Julio Pepper
2:56
Now that you've renounced your Orioles citizenship, mind telling us who you'll be rooting for? I'm partial to the Twins if you're looking for a Switzerland.
AvatarDan Szymborski
2:57
I don't have to have one team that I pull for!
Tom
2:57
What would be the flaw in teams offering a "dual-option" contract? Not a mutual option, per se. Say there's a team option of $30 million for a player, but a player option for $20 for the same year. Player benefits from guaranteed floor, or choice to become a FA. Team has guarantee that they can have the player at $30 if they choose. Thoughts?
AvatarDan Szymborski
2:57
They do have mutual options.
At different prices.
toki
2:59
Any upcoming games that you are hyped about?
AvatarDan Szymborski
2:59
Romancing SaGa 2 is getting a Windows release!
dakota mckee
3:00
Do the Mets have enough bullets to go after Christian Yelich?
tb.25
3:00
What about machine learning for clustering or similarity scores? What is your preferred method of similarity scoring?
AvatarDan Szymborski
3:01
I love me some Mahalanobis distance.  I do use cluster analysis, though no machine learning.
greg
3:01
Cat update please!
AvatarDan Szymborski
3:01
Oops, I didn't hit enter previous answer!
And went over it
The Mets *could* add Yelich, but I don't think it's happening.
3:02
I last saw Pandora in the living room sleeping, Galileo was just here whining for dinner, and I haven't seen Mercutio since a UPS driving up the street scared him and he hid in his coward hiding place
Stephen
3:02
Dan, how would you suggest O's fans get through what will surely be a rough patch, outside of swearing off the team?
AvatarDan Szymborski
3:02
Alcohol.
Boob Pollardo
3:02
What makes more sense for the Cubs: trading for Salazar or signing Cobb?
AvatarDan Szymborski
3:03
Signing Cobb.  I think Salazar rumors are more excited writers than actual fire.
toki
3:03
what are you currently playing?
AvatarDan Szymborski
3:03
BaseballChat!
3:04
Hearthstone right now since I haven' tcompleted all the dungeon run classes.
Magic 8 Ball
3:04
Has any NL team measurably improved its playoff chances this winter? My sources say "No."
AvatarDan Szymborski
3:04
It's pretty early!
Roadhog
3:04
dan just join Eno and become an A's fan. it's where all the cool kids are, and you get to watch a whole lot of Matt Chapman
AvatarDan Szymborski
3:04
It feels too trendy.
If I didn't become an A's fan when Moneyball made all of us employable, it seems a little weird to not do so until 2017
3:05
OK guys, gotta go.  Have some upcoming radio stuff and I need to feed the cats first so I don't have two of them meowing while I'm on the air.  Which the bastards will do.
Not sure if anyone else is coming?  Maybe count to 20 and then turn off the lights?
3:06
Maybe Eno's still peeing.
3:07
Like now he's peeing in a sink because it's been going for an hour and there's a team of paramedics trying to figure out how it's physically possible for someone to pee 50 gallons
Or he got a bite to eat.  One of those.
OK, I'm told to close it up.
3:08
We'll leave it on that note, with Eno urination fan fiction.
Connecting…