FanGraphs Audio: A Free-Flowing Convo with Kiley McDaniel
Episode 513
Kiley McDaniel is both (a) the lead prospect writer for FanGraphs and also (b) the guest on this particular edition of FanGraphs Audio — during which edition he discusses OFP, accounting for biases in individual scouts, and the three best jobs in baseball.
Don’t hesitate to direct pod-related correspondence to @cistulli on Twitter.
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Carson Cistulli has published a book of aphorisms called Spirited Ejaculations of a New Enthusiast.
“Lead Prospect Analyst for FanGraphs” 😀
What’s the deal with prospects?! I don’t get it!
Wellsir, from this podcast – which, I feel bound to note, is among the best I’ve heard at FG, “the deal with prospects” is that it’s only incidentally about prospects and no so much any “deal” as a ‘means’ by which one might get to some deal one is really after, with luck.
This podcast implies, if not suggests, that it would be in order for each listener who harbors a hankering to wind down his or, less frequently, her individual mortal coil being paid for exploring her or, more typically, his efforts at exploring MLB, to consider seriously the setting up of their very own website, podcast or YouTube* channel and then commence to posting and yakking thereon, on the chance that some MLB front office type might listen and then decide it could be amusing to hire him/her/heirm at an annual salary of 6 or more figures before the decimal point, to do whatever, so long as whatever involves something capable of being thought of as having to do with MLB.
This is not satire. This is behavior proven to be within the evolution of organic life forms. We can only wonder at the amount of random fauxcreative activity going on among the microbiomes in our intestinal tracts.
(* being a platform “the users [of which are] watching more than six billion hours of video a month”: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/12/15/hollywood-vine)
You write like Conrad Black.
That is, in this instance, by design – satire, if you will, Black being something of an anachronism in his writing style, and all of that plus a thorough-going blackguard, bully and nincompoop in his socio-economic positions and politics.
I suggest that, were you to read other things I’ve posted here and elsewhere, you might well come to settle on some other image. But perhaps not: it depends critically on your reading habits and associated perspicacity.
Is there an inside joke with the “ledd prospect analyst” thing? I’m referring to a couple of podcasts ago when Carson almost said “leed” and McDaniel said “that was close!”
I don’t get it. I love these podcasts but I’m wondering how many new listeners tune out when Carson says “ledd” and then freaking REPEATS IT as he does so many times? Credibility, sir, credibility. Carson’s Wikipedia page is already under fire for being “not a significant enough person:” and this doesn’t help. Jokes are fine up to a point but, really? Does Carson LIKE sounding ignorant?
no fun allowed!!!
Yes, of course, jokes that you don’t get or like should be banned from this podcast. Perhaps Carson will edit a special version for you without any jokes.
Take a breath, people, I just want to know what the joke is. I SAID I love the podcasts. I’m just wondering if people are bypassing the podcast for that reason. I’m not trying to cut anyone down and I apologize if it came across that way. And read what I said, OTHER PEOPLE are criticizing Carson’s Wikipedia page, not me. Carson is certainly significant.
As for you, “Avattoir,” and anyone else posting under a pseudonym, why can’t I do the same?
I very much doubt he spends the last few moments of each day before he drifts off to sleep wondering whether “not a significant enough person” will end up his epitaph.
Nor should he. Take yourself, for example: is it somehow the conception you hold for yourself that you, an avatar-named anonymous occasional apparition on the Internet, will even end up with an epitaph of any sort at all? That you, someone whose sallies forth into the public arena are shielded by the name “andjohn”, is somehow leading, or will end up having lead (or led, or ledd) a more ‘important’ life than Carson Cistuli?
For all any of us here knows, the person behind the postings of “andjohn” could be a sniveling wimpy failure of a creepy waste of protoplasm, wasting his waking hours taking cheap shots at his betters.
Conrad writes like an asshole.
Indeed.
all identity is idolatry! i choose the protoplasm. i also choose shots from the top shelf, but when my pockets are bare, let me have cheap shots.
I feel moved to observe that for Baseball Reference to conclude Dayan Viciedo as your closest comparator is a low blow. FWIW, at your best, I considered you the epitome of Harry Anderson, adjusted to your times.
in any case, i did not make it through the prefatory music, which is sufficiently tasteless, i no longer wish to live in the world where that is a thing.
Kiley McDaniel: Gets his dudes cause he’s good in the (bed)room.