FanGraphs After Dark Chat
Paul Swydan used to be the managing editor of The Hardball Times, a writer and editor for FanGraphs and a writer for Boston.com and The Boston Globe. Now, he owns The Silver Unicorn Bookstore, an independent bookstore in Acton, Mass. Follow him on Twitter @Swydan. Follow the store @SilUnicornActon.
Question about the site: Why have links to teams been removed from player pages?
The fact that Paul Swydan shouted out ASAP Rocky’s mixtape makes me love this site even more. Combining my love of baseball, sabermetrics, and avant-garde hip hop.
Paul, if your reading this, you need to hear Danny Brown (if you’ve already heard him, I’ve underestimated you yet again), especially his XXX mixtape. The voice takes some getting used to, but he’s all the good parts of 2pac, ODB, and Andre 3000. Once again, you are the man, I thought I was the only one looking at advanced statistics and listening to OFWGKTA.
Hodgy,
Have had XXX in rotation for awhile now. I’ll never like the high-pitched voice the same way I never liked any of Eminem’s voices, but even with that in mind it’s one of the best discs of the year.
I will say I haven’t really delved too much into Odd Future. I will give it a chance at some point, but TtC strikes me as incredibly dumb. Check his “interview” with Nas in this month’s XXL. Very hard to read.
Thanks for catching the ASAP Rocky reference, I wasn’t sure anyone had!