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 Dan Szymborski: It is a time for baseball.
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| 7:01 |
: Hello baseball world
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| 7:02 |
: Quite a matchup we have tonight
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| 7:02 |
Dan Szymborski: I’m just glad we got *a* Game 5!
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: So how do we think the Glasnow start will pan out?
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| 7:02 |
Dan Szymborski: Between two and four runs allowed, margin of error six!
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| 3:31 |
: Hey everyone, welcome to our ALDS chat for the day.
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| 3:31 |
: The A’s and Astros are about to get started, with Oakland’s metaphorical back against the metaphorical wall
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| 3:32 |
: Liam Hendriks threw roughly 8 trillion pitches yesterday (I didn’t count) but will probably be available today
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| 3:32 |
: What’s up, y’all?
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| 3:32 |
: KEEP HOPING AND DREAMING AND YOU…..WILL…..SOOOAAARRRR
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| 3:32 |
: We’ll also talk about the NL games b/c why not
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| 2:06 |
Dan Szymborski: Hello!
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| 2:06 |
: So many Dudebros in that Fox pre-game studio.
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: howdy, all
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| 2:06 |
Dan Szymborski: Welcome to our NLDS Game 1 Chat! Which you have likely figured out from the link that was titled as such!
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| 2:07 |
: What noise would be louder in the event of an Astros-Yankees ALCS – collective groans of fans, or cheers of FOX execs?
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| 2:08 |
Dan Szymborski: I imagine a Marlins-A’s World Series would cause Depression-era panic at Fox.
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: Hey everyone, welcome to our chat for ALDS Game 1.
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| 4:01 |
: Today it will be Dan and I manning the chat stations (definitely just our computers).
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| 4:01 |
: If you’d like a preview of the series, conveniently enough, Dan wrote it:
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| 4:01 |
Dan Szymborski: And I am here!
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: Er, he’s previewing the later ALDS game
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| 1:00 |
 Jay Jaffe: Good afternoon, folks! Welcome to today’s Wild Card Series Day 2 chat. I’ll be joined here by Dan Szymborski, Tony Wolfe and maybe Meg Rowley in due course
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Jay Jaffe: we’re all going to have baseball coming out of our ears by the time today is over
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| 1:02 |
Jay Jaffe: Reds-Braves is already going, Astros-Twins about to start, Marlins Cubs at 2 pm ET, White Sox-A’s at 3, Blue Jays-Rays at 4, C, Cardinals-Padres at 5
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Jay Jaffe: (pauses to catch breath)
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Jay Jaffe: Yankees-Indians at 7 ET, and finally Dodgers-Brewers at 10
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: I’ve been a Padre fan for the past 12 years and this is the first time I’ve seen my team in the playoffs. So, I cannot understate how sad I am that both Clevenger and Lamet will not be pitching in this series.
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Dan Szymborski: And welcome to the FanGraphs live chat for Yankees vs. Indians!
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| 7:00 |
Dan Szymborski: I am your currently unsupervised host, Dan Szymborski, also of same site.
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| 7:01 |
Dan Szymborski: And there is baseball afoot.
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| 7:01 |
: if you averaged tim lincecum and Alejandro kirk’s build would you just end up with a normal human?
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| 7:01 |
Dan Szymborski: Seems reasonable.
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: Why does the nerdcast version have to be on ESPN+, can’t it just be on ESPN2?
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| 12:04 |
Dan Szymborski: And we are LIVEISH
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| 12:04 |
: Dan Rather on Twitter: “I have heard others see the world differently, but here are two things you will not find on a Rather dinner table: beans in the chili or garlic in the guacamole.”
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| 12:05 |
Dan Szymborski:
I have heard others see the world differently, but here are two things you will not find on a Rather dinner table: beans in the chili or garlic in the guacamole.
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| 12:05 |
: Over or under 60% chance that Steve Cohen is approved by mlb owners?
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| 12:05 |
Dan Szymborski: Over
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| 12:05 |
: Marlins are ice cold. Why are their odds of making the playoff so high?
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| 2:01 |
Jay Jaffe: Good afternoon, folks, and welcome to the final week of the 2020 regular season. In connection with that, I have the latest installment of my Team Entropy series here: https://blogs.fangraphs.com/team-entropy-2020-still-on-the-tables/
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Jay Jaffe: Yesterday I looked at Justin Verlander’s Tommy John surgery and its impact on the Astros’ postseason rotation as well as his pursuit of some big milestones https://blogs.fangraphs.com/justin-verlanders-tommy-john-surgery-throw…
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Jay Jaffe: Meanwhile, not mine but i just finished reading a piece from The Athletic about the mid-’80s White Sox as early pioneers in biomechanics, complete with video of Tom Seaver’s drop-and-drive delivery https://theathletic.com/2079123/2020/09/22/with-tom-seaver-as-a-model-…
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Jay Jaffe: OK, on with the show
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| 2:04 |
: If both #8 seeds were to upset the #1 seeds in the 3-game Wild Card series, would that give MLB pause to making the expanded postseason format permanent? A little chaos is good IMO. But too much, and the issue of fairness comes into question.
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Jay Jaffe: First, I think it’s important to remember through all of this that the players have a say in any new postseason format. I suspect that they will have it drilled into them that expanded playoffs increasingly reward mediocrity and could hit them in their wallets. Any expansion beyond the pre-2020 format needs to incentivize teams to win their divisions
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