Dave Cameron: Happy Wednesday, everyone. I’m coming to you live from Golden, Colorado, where it’s about 50 degrees cooler than North Carolina was when I left it on Sunday.

Dave Cameron: And no, I don’t have a Coors in front of me. Or near me.

Dave Cameron: We’re going to do some baseball chatting for the next hour. I might take a break or two to yell at Sullivan and tell him to start writing.

Dave Cameron: (He’s been “making breakfast” for like 20 minutes)

Carrotjuice: What award are you voting for this year?

Dave Cameron: I have an NL Cy Young vote this year.

Paul Swydan: Sorry!

Paul Swydan: Let’s get started.

Paul Swydan: I’ll stay late.

Patrick: Do the Red Sox have enough pitching to do well in the postseason if they make it? Price-Porcello-Pomeranz-Rodriguez doesn’t sound bad at all.

Paul Swydan: I think it’s competitive, but nights like tonight give me pause.

Patrick: Despite adding Kimbrel and Carson Smith last offseason, will Dave Dombrowski target more bullpen arms in trades this offseason?

august fagerstrom: My apologies for the delay. Had some technical difficulties this morning and fell behind on my post-writing. Will start this thing up ASAP, hopefully about 10 minutes or so!

august fagerstrom: ok!

august fagerstrom: let us chat1

Bork: Hello, friend! YOU’RE LATE

august fagerstrom: Hi, Bork!

august fagerstrom: Sorry for making you wiat.

Dan Szymborski: Gravy fries!

Dan Szymborski: Not eating any, just felt like saying it.

Dan Szymborski: For those that don’t remember, I’m saving off-topic Qs for the Lightning Round.

Steve BartMandelay: DOOM AND GLOOM; DOOM AND GLOOM; etc.

Erik: The Cubs may set the BABIP-suppression record while shifting the least among everyone in the league. What’s going on there? Would they have an even better defense if they shifted more, or have they discovered a flaw in shifting that the rest of the league and all the analysts haven’t found yet?

Dan Szymborski: I think that the hoopla around shifting is a little overheated. It’s good, but it’s not a game-changer type of thing generally.

Jeff Sullivan: Hello friends

Jeff Sullivan: Let’s baseball chat

Bork: Hello, friend!

Jeff Sullivan: Hello friend

Andrew: The Mets, amirite?

Jeff Sullivan: Nothing like a series against the Reds to perk up the energy

Eno Sarris: From Toronto! Here’s a song dedicated to a certain A’s callup.

Eno Sarris: hey it’s going to be 90s hip hop day

i hate my manager: does canada consider you a terrorist now or something?

Eno Sarris: no, just didn’t know if I needed a visa to “talk” at a “venue” about “baseball”. Sure, German dude, sure.

hscer: Wait, there are chats on this site?

Eno Sarris: no, just a bunch of people getting strange.

Dave Cameron: Happy Wednesday, everyone. This is my last chat from North Carolina, as I’m starting the cross-country drive on the move to Oregon on Sunday. We’ll still talk baseball, of course, but if you want to get in any last minute questions about Winston-Salem, this is your shot.

Dave Cameron: I think I’ll be chatting from Denver next Wednesday, so maybe next week we’ll talk weed and franchises without a plan.

Otis Redding: Is the AL East the most intriguing division in baseball down the stretch?

Dave Cameron: Probably, yeah, though I think both wild cards could come from that division, so all three teams in the division race may end up in the postseason.

Brett W: Which active players if any have in your mind already certified their places as no-research-necessary first-ballot Hall of Famers?

Dave Cameron: Pujols, Miggy, Ichiro, Beltre, Ortiz, Kershaw. I think I’d vote for Beltran too, but he requires at least a little thought.

Paul Swydan: Hi everybody!

Paul Swydan: Jeff may be late, but we’ll get started.

Paul Swydan: Trying out my Gamechanger priority list. It has me on STL-PIT right now, I assume because the LI > 2.

Spenny: Bottom of the ninth, down one, you can send up one batter to lead off: Trea Turner or Billy Hamilton?

Paul Swydan: Turner, easily. I want the guy who has the higher chance of getting to first base. I’ll worry about the rest after.

Carrotjuice: Does Dan Szymborski no longer do chats for Fangraphs?

august fagerstrom: Yo! Labor Day threw me off for a second. We’ll get this one started up real soon

august fagerstrom: In the meantime, this is very good:

august fagerstrom: ok! let’s begin

Bork: Hello, friend!

august fagerstrom: Hi, Bork!

Ronnie: If a Colorado Rockies player hit .400 would anyone even care?

Jeff Sullivan: Hello friends

Jeff Sullivan: Let’s baseball chat

Jeff Sullivan: Looking at the numbers I just realized Dee Gordon sucks again. Baseball!

Bork: Hello, friend!

Jeff Sullivan: Hello friend

Julio Pepper: Think we see Brinson up soon?