Eno Sarris: Be here at the top of the hour, is what Baba Ram Dass said.

Eno Sarris: Lyrics!

nobody knows what they are doing
it’s beyond your control, an’ friday night’s a ruin
if you wanna survive you better learn how to lie

Comment From JEB
Lester cheated, Lester cheated!

Eno Sarris: What I find most interesting about this episode is how nobody cares. Even Adam Wainwright says, oh yeah, it was just for grip. Okay! If this is accepted… perhaps we should change the rule to allow stickum? Wait. That seems crazy.

Comment From Swing and a Miss Puiggy
Oh man, had Founder’s wet-hopped Harvest Ale last night. A must for hop-heads. So crisp and complexly delicious.

Eno Sarris: SHUT UP. Well, actually, I’ll report in from the Public House tonight where I’ll watch Game Two. hopefully they’ll have some nice wet hops on tap because I’m finally feeling healthy.

Dave Cameron: We’re going to do a slightly abbreviated chat today, running only 30 minutes instead of the usual 60, since I’m live blogging World Series Game 1 tonight (with Jeff) and need to get some other stuff done before spending ~4 hours doing this again later on this evening. But, we’ll have time for question WS/Free Agent Q&As now, and then you can join us later on tonight for live blog fun.

Comment From Ben
If the Reds and Braves swap Uggla for Phillips, Atlanta will have ALL OF THE DEFENSE.

Dave Cameron: My guess is that Phillips ends up in KC. They need a 2B, he’s exactly their kind of player, and they won’t make Cincinnati take back a bad contract in exchange.

Comment From JAC
Cardinals’ GM admitted that Mujica is on the roster to avoid upsetting any of the players, not because he’s the most deserving. Do you think this “keep everyone happy” consideration has actual value, and, if so, is it greater than the value of having a better player take the 25th roster spot? Pretend for the sake of argument that Mujica is no better at pitching than a position player.

Dave Cameron: Mujica is likely going to be used in a mopup role, or not at all. In that sense, his roster spot doesn’t really matter. If you’re only going to throw low leverage innings, performance isn’t a big deal, and if it keeps the players happy, I’m not sure why that shouldn’t be a deciding factor.

Comment From Catoblepas
Can you think of any reason UZR didn’t like Iglesias’s defense much this season? Is he a flashy-but-not-actually-effective type, or is this just a blip?

Jeff Sullivan: All right, what do we have today?

Jeff Sullivan: A baseball chat!

Jeff Sullivan: With no baseball scheduled!

Jeff Sullivan: To answer questions left in the comments for some reason:

Jeff Sullivan: Zduriencik hires the next manager, mostly

Jeff Sullivan: No Carson

Dan Szymborski: It’s peanut butter jelly time.

Dan Szymborski: Where he at?

Comment From Steve
Rendon or Gyorko – long term…including defense

Dan Szymborski: Rendon. Not that I dislike Gyorko, but if Rendon hasn’t been healthy and his debut was very solid for a guy who has missed so much time

Comment From GSon
Does the cardinal success with their player development signal the end of the mega-stupid 10 year 100’s of millions of dollar contracts?

Dan Szymborski: No, instant gratification is easy.

Eno Sarris: Hope you guys show! Sorry for being late. Sick. Tough morning.

Eno Sarris: Gonna get going! Not many of us today!

Comment From Steve 1
Hi Eno! Sorry no one is here

Eno Sarris: It’s not your fault! You’re here!

Comment From Jake
Please don’t be dead, Eno

Eno Sarris: Just bronchitis.

Dave Cameron: John Lackey, ace. Shane Robinson, slugger. Feel free to ask questions, but I do not guarantee that baseball will make sense.

Dave Cameron: We can still have fun anyway, though. The queue is now open.

Comment From person hscer
I was excited to see my Community submission accepted this morning…who do I have to thank? http://www.fangraphs.com/community/the-best-case-for-bryce/

Dave Cameron: Jeff Sullivan manages the Community Blog.

Comment From Troy
Statistically, the worst defensive team still playing?

Dave Cameron: The Tigers. The Cardinals aren’t that far ahead, but we’re also not capturing everything Yadier Molina does for them.

Jeff Sullivan: Let’s see, am I on time?

Jeff Sullivan: Nailed it!

Jeff Sullivan: Hey everybody and welcome to baseball chat

Comment From Sirras One
Congrats on being on time Jeff!

Jeff Sullivan: This is a big day for me

Comment From Roy Hibbert
if you were the dodgers who would u pitch for games 4/5/6/7

Dan Szymborski: It is time for the magic* to start.

* Dan Szymborski Evil Enterprises insists that no magic is used in the making of this chat.

Dan Szymborski: And heeeeere come the pretzels!

Dan Szymborski: (There’s a lag between when I make first comment and it shows live readers)

Comment From JAC
Assuming the Dodgers stand pat (I’m sure they won’t), what’s their 2014 win projection?

Dan Szymborski: 87? Pretty speculative at this point! I haven’t run 2014 projections even.

Comment From Mr. Wrestling IV
Now that Evil Enterprises is up and running, will the Dan Szymborski Torture Basement be available in stores?

Dave Cameron: Plenty to look back at from last night, plus looking forward to a couple of Game 5s over the next two nights. And, for the other 24 fanbases, we can talk off-season stuff. The queue is now open.

Dave Cameron: We’re on Jeff time today.

Dave Cameron: Sorry about that. Had to finish up the post on A.J. Burnett before starting.

Comment From Guest
Do the Rockies sign a big 1B/OF bat this offseason?

Dave Cameron: They already said Cuddyer is moving to first. My guess is they’ll make a trade rather than a FA sign. I could see them wildly overpaying for Cespedes.

Comment From Tristan
Kevin Towers says the Dbacks will look for a power bat in a corner position. Who makes sense? Nelson Cruz? Trumbo? Any other FA?

Jeff Sullivan: Wow, a live chat! Can’t remember the last time I did one of these!

Jeff Sullivan: In today’s live chat, we’ll just re-live yesterday’s five-hour Red Sox/Rays marathon. We begin in the top of the first…

Comment From Mr. Hand
You’re late, Mr. Spicoli, stop wasting MY time!

Jeff Sullivan: One a god damned minute!

Jeff Sullivan: Typos!

Comment From tylersnotes
to whom do i register my disappointment in the lack of articles about pitcher pace in yesterday’s sox/rays game?