World Series Game 7 Chat

8:05
Avatar David Laurila: Hello fellow baseball fans. Let’s get this thing started.

8:05
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Greetings chatters and chatees.

8:06
Avatar Dan Szymborski: The end. The end of baseball.

8:06
Magic Kingdome: Let’s pretend the Mariners make the World Series in the next few years [hearty chuckle].  Who throws out the first pitch?

8:06
Avatar David Laurila: Don’t know what we’re going to see tonight, but I’m rooting for a nail-biter with no ump-show controversies.

8:07
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Unless he’s signed with a team, no way King Felix doesn’t get to throw out a first pitch in this case.

8:08
Avatar Dan Szymborski: be back in a minute, I need to go murder a cat.

8:08
Avatar David Laurila: Fifteen World Series Game 7s have been decided by one run, five of which went extra innings. There have also been blowouts: In 1909, the Pirates pounded the Tigers 8-0. In 1934, the Cardinals crushed the Tigers 11-0. In 1956, the Yankees dominated the Dodgers 9-0. In 1985, the Royals routed the Cardinals 11-0.

8:09
Scratched Correa: Is there anything better than game 7?

8:09
Avatar David Laurila: The Red Sox won Game 8 of the 1912 World Series in 10 innings. (Game 2 ended in a tie.) That’s maybe better?

8:10
@PsyMar: Just got the cable hooked up.  Phew.  The outlet is not near the TV, I had to jerry-rig together 3 cables with a splitter and some other doodad with coax in/out… and that was just to get to the box, which has a fourth cable going to the HDMI switcher that then has a cable going to the TV.  If this works I’ll be amazed

8:12
Avatar David Laurila: Chirinos has made an outstanding play to retire Eaton each of the last two evenings.

8:12
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Back, there was some kitchen havoc. I didn’t know which kitten to murder so they survive for now.

8:13
Avatar Dan Szymborski: And naturally, when I step away, an inning goes fast.

8:13
Jayce WHO ?!: I know weather makes it difficult, but it would be so good for there to always be a 4 day layoff between game 6 and 7

8:13
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Feels weird. Part of baseball is the grind.

8:13
Jayce WHO ?!: All I really want is Rodney to close this one out and shoot that arrow into the air – the single least probable ending I can realistically imagine

8:13
THE Chili Master: Game 7 deserves something special. Hormel Turkey Chili with Beans! Mmmmm🏆☢️

8:14
Avatar Dan Szymborski: 🤮

8:14
Anthony S: So it looks like the consensus has the likelihood of the Astros winning at somewhere between 52-60%. What say ye?

8:14
Avatar Dan Szymborski: ZiPS had it fairly even, but who knows what Scherzer’s “true” ability is at this particular moment.

8:14
Cesar Cedeno: On pregame Big Hurt claimed MadBum was never the same after going 5 in relief in G7 2014.  Um, Bumgarner had his two highest WAR seasons in 2015-16.  C’mon Frank!

8:14
Avatar David Laurila: MadBum fact: Not only hasn’t he not allowed a run in seven postseason innings as a reliever, he hasn’t allowed allowed a run in four-and-two-thirds regular-season innings as a reliever.

8:14
Hire Joe Morgan?: Dear Dan,

Where is the Chat that was Promised?

Thank you, kindly.

8:15
Avatar Dan Szymborski: The true chat is the people you blocked on Twitter on the way.

8:15
Scratched Correa: Hopefully I get to make a celebrating kate upton joke tonight because Dan is here. He’s the best!

8:15
LFC Mike: Game 7 and a Game 7 SzymChat! Does it get any better than this for high drama mixed with irreverent commentary? 😁👍

8:15
Avatar Dan Szymborski: What are you guys buttering me up for? I’m not helping move any couches this weekend.

8:16
Avatar David Laurila: Sad to hear that Ron Fairly died today. He played for the 1969 Expos, the first team  in Washington Nationals franchise history. Can’t help but wonder if he’d have been watching tonight.

8:16
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Yeah, I saw that. 🙁

8:16
Hire Joe Morgan?: It is the Chat that was Promised!

8:17
Train Noises: Am I the only one bothered by Greinke’s photo in MPB At Bat is one where he still has a mullet?

8:17
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Once you have a mullet, you always have a mullet.

8:17
druidiful: This is going to be a 1-0 2 hour game.

8:17
Mrow?: Kittens?  Please explain?

8:17
HJ: Scherzer is heavily drugged up, right? Chances this causes long-term damage to his pitching career?

8:18
Avatar David Laurila: This is a reasonable question.

8:18
Avatar Dan Szymborski: I made the possibly foolish decision to adopt two *bonded* kittens so that they could stay together.

8:18
Avatar Dan Szymborski: And now all my stuff is broken.

8:18
Avatar Dan Szymborski: I doubt there’s any long-term damage unless there’s an actual injury

8:18
Dbo: Is it fair that the nationals got away field advantage despite the Astros having a better record?

8:19
Fire Ken Tremendous: Dan will you use your ability to speed up the game to favor one team over the other?

8:19
Avatar David Laurila: Max Scherzer said the following when I interviewed him way back in 2010: “I’m a very mathematical guy. I can really handle numbers, so for me the advanced metrics that are coming out throughout the game… have helped me to understand and simplify the game. So if a duck fart gets over the second baseman, I don’t worry about it anymore. I just try to go out and pitch and execute.”

8:19
Avatar Dan Szymborski: If I had such an ability, I would have used it earlier this year when I had a gamer to write after a 4:30 game!

8:19
Avatar Dan Szymborski: It’s a good attitude. Accepting that some thing are out of your control is hard.

8:20
Hire Joe Morgan?: I want twelve perfect innings from Scherzer.

8:20
Geebs: I’m hoping for a 91 type game 7

8:20
Death: Regretfully, we shall all pass from this life we live at some point

8:20
Avatar David Laurila: Scherzer also said the following in our 2010 interview: “Hitting is the hardest thing to do in baseball, and pitching is the most complicated.”

8:21
Avatar Dan Szymborski: I’d like to at least get my first Hall of Fame vote before I shuffle into the void.

8:21
The Hamburglar: I’m mainly excited for this game because in a few hours I dont have to hear about the road team winning every game, as if it’s some obscure piece of trivia

8:21
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Unless the road team wins

8:21
Bi-Polar Bear: The pictures of the umps look like the same guy testing out different hairstyles.

8:21
Avatar Dan Szymborski: The year is 2051: All umpires are just palette-swapped Joe West robots.

8:22
Dystopian Future: NFL players take ridiculous amounts of Toradol and they tend to play fine. They’re pro athletes, and I hate using this argument, but they play at stupidly high levels and through quite a bit of pain sometimes. He’ll be fine, I think.

8:22
Maggie25: Can people in the states watch the game on mlb.tv? Just curious.

8:22
stever20: heard someone say that if Max wins this game tonight he may go down as this generations top pitcher.   What do you say?

8:22
Avatar Dan Szymborski: He either is or he isn’t and tonight isn’t changing my opinion!

8:23
Avatar David Laurila: Just checked and the answer is no for MLB TV. You can listen to the radio broadcast, but not watch.

8:23
Avatar Dan Szymborski: He’s got a good argument for the decade, but I think I’d still take Kershaw

8:23
808snake: You’ll still have those cats in 2051. Those things never go away, you know

8:24
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Uggh, I’ll be 73.

8:24
Adam2: Where was Eaton running??? Looked inside the basepath

8:24
Avatar David Laurila: Apples and oranges, but last night’s interference call wasn’t unlike the infamous Tom Brady tuck-rule debacle. While technically correct, it pretty much defied logic  and was thus, in a word, bullshit.

8:24
Dystopian Future: You can watch the games on mlb dot tv if you have a tv provider that qualifies for it! I watch on MLB dot tv in the states.

8:24
Dystopian Future: You have to enter your pay tv provider, however.

8:24
Sam Holbrook: How can I inject myself into Game 7

8:24
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Glider?

8:24
Kiermaier’s Piercing Green Eyes: MLB.TV is supported for those with cable logins. Or whose parents have cable logins.

8:24
Jacob DeSpaniel: Say Soto torches the Asttros tonight, bashing his way to world series MVP. Any other 21 year old one have that on there resume?

8:24
Avatar Dan Szymborski: I think Fred Lynn was the youngest

8:25
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Oops, google says I’m not even close

8:25
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Wait, Lynn wasn’t one

8:25
Avatar Dan Szymborski: who am I thinking of?

8:26
Mad Joe-Don: Lynn Fred?

8:26
tz: Dan have you seen that video where that old feral cat with terminal kidney disease “adopts” two feral tiny kittens that were brought into the rescue shelter.

8:26
Avatar Dan Szymborski: I did!

8:26
Carl Jr: Professional hitter!

8:26
Scratched Correa: Soto is good at baseball

8:27
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Youngest is Bret Saberhagen.

8:28
Avatar Dan Szymborski: OK, I apparently was thinking of Lynn’s ALCS MVP. So I’m only 80% dumb.

8:28
Woad Raider: Miguel Cabrera had a great WS as a 20 year old Marlin in 2003. Hit a huge HR off of Clemens.

8:28
Hire Joe Morgan?: I like watching Greinke because he does nothing wrong.  He seems to open the possibility of a real person playing baseball.

8:28
Quilted Northern: I always confuse Fred Lynn and Brett Saberhagen.

8:29
Avatar David Laurila: If I were in a press box, commenting that this game is being played at a faster-than-usual pace would earn me more than a few evil eyes. Not sure if that applies here in a chat room.

8:31
stever20: yeah Lynn would have been on the losing team in ’75 vs the Reds right????

8:31
Avatar David Laurila: As someone who lived and died with the Red Sox in 1975, I can begrudgingly confirm the accuracy of said presumption.

8:32
Scratched Correa: Good news is you can’t be smart in a press box

8:32
Avatar David Laurila: Nor can I most anywhere else, unfortunately.

8:33
Fire Ken Tremendous: Last night they were talking about Verlander wanting to be a power pitcher like Nolan Ryan into his 40s. Do we know how much velocity Nolan had lost by the time he was finished?

8:33
Avatar David Laurila: Lefty Gomez and Justin Verlander each have seven World Series starts. Gomez is 6-0 with a 2.86 ERA. Verlander is 0-6 with a 5.68 ERA.

8:34
5 Run Homer: Gurriel is one good fielding 1B

8:35
Avatar David Laurila: And one good homer-hitting one, to boot.

8:35
Avatar David Laurila: That was pun-intended, of course.

8:36
Comfortably Dumb: Which ALCS was your F. Lynn reference

8:36
Avatar Dan Szymborski: 82

8:36
Basic Biotch: Grrr i hate <insert literally any commentator> so much

8:36
Avatar Dan Szymborski: I’m telling Petriello!

8:36
Guest: Dayum Yuli

8:36
This is Lude-i-cris: Quadrangle

8:37
Geebs: Well that wasn’t 91 like at all

8:37
Josh: they should’ve had gurriel’s suspension from the 2017 WS apply to Houston’s next WS, not the string of inconsequential games at the start of the 2018 season

8:38
Avatar Dan Szymborski: He deserved a suspension, but  I don’t think the fact supported a *severe* one.

8:38
Scrubladder: 2019 != 1991

8:39
kevinthecomic: Is Alvarez not a good runner?  Looked like he was taking baby steps there…………

8:39
Joey Gladstone : Alvarez is slow as Christmas

8:39
Avatar Dan Szymborski: It coems the same time every year

8:39
Avatar Dan Szymborski: dafuq

8:39
Avatar David Laurila: Might want to warm the pen, just in case. This isn’t a normal game with a normal Scherzer.

8:40
Adam2: It was nice of Hinch to help out a struggling pitcher

8:40
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Scherzer’s locations are spotty. I’m not giving him a free out here.

8:41
Fire Ken Tremendous: Max Scherzer? More like Min Scherzer. Who’s with me?

8:41
Byron Buxton : That grounder should be ruled out for being out of the baseline

8:41
Avatar Dan Szymborski: He seems to be grunting louder than normal. If this wasn’t live, I’d go back to some game tap.

8:42
Joey Gladstone : More Min Scherzless.  Oh. Cut. it. out.  Come on.

8:42
Scrubladder: Who is Ken Tremendous and why I wanna fire him??

8:42
Avatar Dan Szymborski: It’s a play on Fire Joe Morgan, which was done by Ken Tremendous aka Mike Schur

8:42
Sharp: I want an article on how “ace” pitcher egos and their insistance on playing while hurt and tired costs teams playoff games

8:42
Hire Joe Morgan?: My tofu and kidney bean chili-seasoned stew has just come off the stove.

8:42
Avatar Dan Szymborski: ewww. I can ban you for that

8:43
Scrubladder: Oh, ok.  I wanna fire Joe Morgan.  Grrr

8:43
Hey yo: wow

8:43
Lightning Rodney: WOW

8:43
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Man, if only they had, like, one more out to work with!

8:43
Deja Vu: Was that Juan Soto or Andrew Benintendi?

8:44
Avatar David Laurila: For between-innings entertainment, one of my favorite World Series trivia tidbits: Clay “Dimples” Dalrymple, a backup catcher with a .233 lifetime batting average, went 2 for 2 in the 1969 World Series. His hits came off Nolan Ryan and Tom Seaver.

8:45
Lee Rumbah: As an NL purist, I’m actually really glad this game 7 has the DH

8:45
Avatar Dan Szymborski:

8:46
Ball on the Tracks: Max ‘s grunts are at seles level.

8:46
Scratched Correa: Just opened up my pappy van winkle 20 for the first time all year. Special night

8:46
LFC Mike: But no ban for the Hormel Turkey Chili with Beans?

8:46
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Too busy expelling my insides.

8:46
Woody: First autograph I ever got was Clay Dalrymple. Connie Mack Stadium, 1966. Passed up the chance to get one from some nobody on the Reds, Pete Rose, to get it.

8:46
TLITF: Oh man is there a way to make this chat not be 30 sec ahead of my stream?

8:46
Avatar David Laurila: Love it.

8:46
Dbo: I found out that skyline chili actually has zero chili peppers in it which solidified my belief that it is not chili but beef stew

8:46
Hire Joe Morgan?: Is that your cat, Dan?

8:46
Avatar Dan Szymborski: yes

8:47
Frustration: Michael A. Taylor has a career 5.000 ops in the world series

8:48
Nate: Skyline chili is chili in the way that a sofa is a football player.

8:48
Wire Fan: When do we start hearing about on-EEE-ball being available?

8:48
Not Jeff Luhnow: Astros have hit 5 balls over 100 mph, Nats have 1.  Seems to be a good sign for the home team right?

8:49
Jacob DeSpaniel: I said it earlier, and I will say it again, this zone is TIGHT

8:49
Ball on the Tracks: If Pedigree dog food brings out the good in your dog, does iams bring out the evil?

8:49
Avatar Dan Szymborski: I swear, Greinke’s gotten 9 outs in about 4 minutes.

8:49
Andrew: I keep hearing things about young people not liking baseball broadcasts, and I’ve heard ratings for this WS are not great. Is baseball really in a bad place going forward?

8:50
Avatar Dan Szymborski: All the old people are dying. Nursing homes have a similar problem; where are they going to find more old people?

8:50
Maggie25: If you made $500 million in your career why do you agree to be in commercials?

8:50
Avatar Dan Szymborski: More goods and services.

8:50
Joey Gladstone : Dog food is not a zero sum game.

8:50
tz: If you put beans and chilis into Pedigree dog food, does that qualify as chili?

8:50
Avatar David Laurila: Dog Food is an Iggy Pop song.

8:50
Avatar Dan Szymborski: No

8:50
Train Noises: You want to make $600 million?

8:50
Scrubladder: I don’t own “dog”.  Are those still a thing ?  Thought the cat army would have eliminated them all,  =\

8:50
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Lots of good dogs!

8:51
Avatar Dan Szymborski: They’re way better behaved than cats.

8:51
Wire Fan: More annoying phone commercials or car commercials?

8:51
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Phone commercials

8:51
Avatar David Laurila: More between-innings trivia: The first team in Nationals franchise history, the 1969 Expos, won their first ever game, beating the Mets 11-10. Reliever Dan McGinn hit the franchise’s first home run — off of Tom Seaver, no less.

8:52
Avatar Dan Szymborski: OK, the cat who I think caused the kitchen havoc is settling in.

8:52
Avatar Dan Szymborski:

8:52
kevinthecomic: This is what I see right before I get jumped!

8:52
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Way too many icons!

8:53
Avatar David Laurila: Wonder what the TV ratings will be in Quebec tonight.

8:53
Howie in KS: icons are where the humor is

8:53
Tha baby cakez : Clean up that desktop

8:54
Doug: I love how the 2 chat people are pretty much having separate chats, its like 2 for the price of one….if free counts as a price

8:54
Avatar David Laurila: Dan does dogs and cats, I do trivia with the occasional punk rock reference.

8:54
Gunther Centralperk: If Mike Trout retired after opening day next year to become a weatherman (i.e., at age 28 with ~73 WAR), what percentage of the HOF vote do you think he *would* get in 2025?

8:55
Avatar David Laurila: 85%

8:55
Scratched Correa: How many chatters do we have tonight?

8:55
Avatar David Laurila: 340-350 in last few minutes.

8:56
5 Run Homer: I’m wearing my Expos hat in support of the Nats tonight

8:56
Avatar Dan Szymborski: If he’s wearing a hat, Reddick can arrest you

8:56
Avatar Dan Szymborski: I like uncluttered desktops.

8:56
Avatar Dan Szymborski:

8:56
Joey Gladstone : why am i not surprised dan has a cluttered ass desktop

8:56
Avatar Dan Szymborski: That’s not mine!

8:56
The Hamburglar: I love baseball more than most things….But I cant help but feel a tiny bit of relief that we get a break for a while after tonight. At least through December, and then I’ll have the itch again

8:56
SignedEpsteinsMother : My Dad is 88 years young, saw the Cubs in ‘45, lived to see a Cubs WS and makes the best worst chili in my world, so fU chili purists, Dan (but don’t ever change).

8:56
Tha baby cakez : Punk musicians who were MLB players: go

8:57
Avatar David Laurila: Rad is the most notable

8:57
Kiermaier’s Piercing Green Eyes: Dan do you just not use Steam?

8:57
Avatar Dan Szymborski: I use steam, but I keep all the shortcuts.

8:57
Sharp: If this was a world series of punk DC would annihilate Houston.

8:57
Avatar David Laurila: Bad Brains!

8:58
Avatar Dan Szymborski: I already need to live to 120 to play all the games.

8:58
Avatar Dan Szymborski:

8:58
Nate: Tim Lincecum SHOULD have been a punk rocker

8:59
Tyler: he is over throwing again

8:59
Ace: Late joiner – has Scherzer looked as bad as his pitch count would suggest?

8:59
Avatar Dan Szymborski: HIs locations aren’t great

8:59
Lunar verLander: …so…his pick off throw…

8:59
Lunar verLander: o, nvm

8:59
Scrubladder: Fox 26 in Houston is reporting that Alex Bregman’s grandfather died just a few hours ago tonight

8:59
someone: For the person who wanted to know how to delay this chat, if you are technically inclined, right click in the chat itself, “Inspect Element”.  Click on “Console” and then paste this in:
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9:00
Andrew: Smoltz saying “pushed to the tilt” which I don’t think is a thing

9:00
Avatar David Laurila: Talking for three-four hours without an occasional stumble, if not a faux pas, is really hard.

9:00
Speaking of Marijuanos: Lincecum was my favorite

9:00
Amoanipupas: So has anyone watched Dominican ball online? They have an app that seems to be their version of MLB.TV

9:00
LFC Mike: Scherzer has run half a marathon while Grienke  has been out on a quiet morning walk

9:00
tz: Bad Brains….yes that clinches it for DC right there.

9:01
Tha baby cakez : Fugazi too

9:02
Scherzer’s Piercing Blue Eye: Ten Foot Pole and Pulley had Scott Radinsky as vocalists.

9:02
Avatar David Laurila: With Pulley and Rad, it’s HAS, had not. They still do shows.

9:02
Wire Fan: Got to think about getting someone warming here , no?

9:02
Avatar Dan Szymborski: I can’t see it. They’re going to ride Max as long as they can

9:02
Adam2: Rodney!

9:02
Tha baby cakez : Scott Radinsky is the only one I know of

9:03
Sassy : Wife just boiled noodles, broth, and carrots in a pot.  Chili?

9:03
NathanLazarus: 3-1 is a “running count” because Bregman will “protect the zone, but not expand it.”
Bregman: takes a fastball for a strike.

9:03
Amoanipupas:

9:03
Amoanipupas: They actually do a better job than MLB explaining how to watch in an easy to understand way.

9:05
Adam2: That was a great yell!

9:05
Scherzer’s Piercing Blue Eye: Interesting. I wasn’t a huge Pulley fan, but there was a song on Punk-o-rama vol 4 that I loved. Then I thought it was both amazing and awesome a professional baseball player was on a band on the same record as Pennywise (my super fav at the time).

9:05
Tvetter: Amoanipupas I’m an Escojido fanatico. I have streamed their games off their website in past years. Helps if you understand some Spanish

9:06
Avatar David Laurila: Scherzer has thrown almost twice as many pitches as Greinke through three innings.

9:06
Avatar Dan Szymborski: “He’s won Cy Youngs, he’s thrown innings, he’s pitched games.”

9:06
Hire Joe Morgan?: I thought that ball was going farther than that.

9:06
ViewerfromHolland: OOOOOF I can breath again

9:06
tz: DEAD BALL ALERT!!

9:06
Byron Buxton : Wait so Scherzer is the face of the Nationals? I’ve heard that about like 5 guys this week

9:06
Avatar Dan Szymborski: The Face of the Nationals is whoever is up when they have some dead moments to fill.

9:08
Avatar Dan Szymborski: You guys would REALLY hate me as a broadcaster though.

9:08
Zekeydude: Yep

9:08
Scrubladder: Dan, have younamed your kittens yet?

9:08
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Constantine and Justinian. Got them around Labor Day.

9:08
@PsyMar: I wouldn’t hate you as a broadcaster, as long as you drank like Harry Caray

9:08
Scratched Correa: I love broadcasters that talk about their cats most of the time and make baseball the sideshow

9:09
LFC Mike: You can announce for Get off my lawn TV Dan.

9:09
Maggie25: I also had that Punkorama vol. 4. Which I am now listening to on Spotify.

9:09
Avatar David Laurila: A few years ago I was having dinner with Rad in Tempe during spring training and  someone came up to the table to meet him. Rad said when that happens it’s almost never a baseball fan, but rather a punk/hardcore fan who recognized him.

9:09
Maggie25: If I was a major league player every song I wrote would be like “I pitch in the major league la la la”

9:09
Pat: Just bought seven kittens and named each after a character from Tim Allen movies.

9:09
Part-Time Porch Pirate: Nats are super lucky to be only down 1

9:09
Adam2: Keeping It Szymborski

9:09
Eric Matthews: From BBRef twitter, this is the 666th WS game

9:10
Avatar Dan Szymborski: He shoudl name his super slow curve the Zack Attack.

9:10
Tha baby cakez : Name the Tim Allen characters

9:10
Scratched Correa: Greinke is freaking surgical right now.

9:11
jonnyzuck: They say athletes want to be musicians and musicians want to be athletes so what does Scott Radinsky want to be?

9:11
Hire Joe Morgan?: Greinke is putting on a fielding clinic.

9:11
Lunar verLander: Greinke is really good at inducing ground balls to…Greinke

9:11
kevinthecomic: more weak contact from Greinke

9:11
Avatar Dan Szymborski: SELFISH PLAYER TRYING TO JOLT HIS GOLD GLOVE CHANCES

9:11
Adam: is there such a thing as exit velo on foul balls?

9:11
Avatar Dan Szymborski: I was really disappointed when Petriello told me they didn’t do any statcast for the celebrity softball game.

9:12
Jason: The chat pace tonight is so much faster than last night.

9:12
Pat: Tim Allen Cats: Scott Calvin, Santa, Baboon, Mimisiku, Al, Bernard, Tim Allen.

9:12
Tha baby cakez : I bet Radinsky wants to be a scientist

9:12
Jeff: The beauty of Punk O Rama 4 – Tom Waits.

9:12
Adam2: wow Greinke

9:13
Joe: Maybe you guys can’t/don’t want to, but any comment on the deadspin fiasco?

9:13
Avatar David Laurila: I’m just happy that FanGraphs treats us well.

9:13
112358: does he normally get so many fielding chances?

9:14
Avatar Dan Szymborski: He gets about the average.

9:14
Hire Joe Morgan?: I’m sorry – what’s going on at Deadspin?  Is there something new?

9:14
Avatar Dan Szymborski: The company wants them to stick to sports or things that have at least some connection with sports.

9:15
Avatar Dan Szymborski: So everyone’s quitting.

9:15
Scrubladder: What is the “deadspin fiasco” ?

9:15
Joe: Everyone quit

9:15
John: Heard on the Astros radio broadcast that Grienke had the most double plays involving a pitcher this season with 12.

9:15
can someone explain: this theory that because Greinke gives quirky answers at press conferences he cares less or will be less anxious about Game 7

9:15
Kiermaier’s Piercing Green Eyes: Greinke might never have to pay for guac at a Houston-area Chipotle ever again.

9:15
Avatar Dan Szymborski: I’m sure he has better places to get guac.

9:15
Mad Joe-Don: I wonder if Smoltz just cannot comprehend how someone like Greinke thinks.

9:16
Dominik: Nats only have hit one ball hard all game while astros hit rockets left and riggy3

9:16
Avatar David Laurila: This is one of those games that feels like it’s 5-0, but it’s one bases-empty swing from being a tie game. Maybe not a good omen for the home team.

9:17
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Honestly, I don’t think just asking things be connected to sports in *some* theoretical way is an unreasonable request of writers on a sports site. It’s not like it was a blanket ban of politics, just that they had to be sports-related.

9:17
Scrubladder: So you walk eternally through the shadow realms, standing against evil where all others falter.  May your thirst for retribution never quench, may the blood on your sword never dry, and may we never need you again.

9:17
Avatar David Laurila: Is that you, Cistulli?

9:17
Avatar Dan Szymborski: I’m not going to quit because David and Meg won’t let me liveblog my colonoscopy.

9:17
Byron Buxton : I bet the Astros really want an even number lead

9:17
Sharp: Minute Maid Park calls Torchy’s a Houston area fave when all true Houstonians know it is just a hipster Austin import

9:17
This is Lude-i-cris: Uneven leads though

9:17
Where’s the rest of your pot: Everything is going the Astros way but a one run lead is perilous at best

9:18
Wire Fan: Are live sports pretty much the only thing keeping broadcast TV alive these days?

9:18
Avatar Dan Szymborski: To an extent.

9:18
Scherzer’s Piercing Blue Eye: Interestingly enough (maybe), I didn’t totally get Tom Waits because the first I ever heard him was on Punk-o-rama 4. Then I saw Down By Law with a friend … and then I got it.

9:18
Avatar David Laurila: Tom Waits live is like a vaudeville act. Amazing performer.

9:18
Sean: I think if I ever see a hometown hero/professional athlete at a bar, I’m gonna ask them to buy me a beer. Greinke has made hundreds of times more than I will in my lifetime. I ain’t paying for his drink.

9:18
Maggie25: I have to assume that the mass resignations are the culmination of something.

9:19
Avatar Dan Szymborski: The editor was fired for loading the front page of non-sports things in protest.

9:19
Tom: I work in sports and legitimately didn’t know Deadspin was a sports website. Just thought it was a regular website that sometimes wrote about sports

9:19
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Media companies can take stick to sports too far; there *are* places where sports and politics necessarily collide.

9:19
Joe: Dan with the really bad take re Deadspin. What did they think it was when they bought it? The non-sports stuff is the most trafficked.

9:20
Avatar Dan Szymborski: If I buy the McDonald’s that sells spaghetti and blankets, I dont’ think it’s unreasonable if I want to focus it on Big Macs and fries.

9:20
The Spin is Dead: Even if people are buying lots of spaghetti and blankets?

9:20
Avatar Dan Szymborski: It’s my choice as the McDonald’s franchise owner.

9:21
Maggie25: But then it’s not a shock when all the blanket salespeople want to quit

9:21
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Nope, never said it was a shock.

9:21
The Spin is Dead: Yay capitalism!

9:21
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Yes. Yay capitalism.

9:22
Joe: It would be like FG getting new owners and then telling you to stop writing about baseball analytics.

9:22
Avatar Dan Szymborski: No, it would be like FG getting new owners and telling me to *start* writing about baseball analytics.

9:22
TLITF: But it wasn’t a McDonald’s, Dan. It’s more like if you bought the sports site that differentiated itself by being about so much more, and trying to make it not be about so much more

9:23
5 Run Homer: I live in Canada, and I just saw a Donald Trump ad. What the hell?

9:23
Avatar David Laurila: Reminds me of something I once said to my wife while watching a game. Can’t remember the city in question, but let’s say it was Cleveland. My offhand comment was, “Somewhere in Cleveland, a beer bottle just got thrown into a TV.”

9:23
Adam2: Does Tom Waits ever perform anymore?

9:24
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Moving on.

9:25
Scherzer’s Piercing Blue Eye: Just not even close most of the time, it seems.

9:25
Lee Rumbah: This game needs a Yordan inside the parker

9:26
jonnyzuck: the home plate ump looks like the ed hochulli of umps with those arms

9:26
I’ll make you famous: With all these baserunners Max is flirting with making dome Astro the World Series MVP

9:26
Actual Astros Fan: How long they gonna leave in Scherzer? Nats having a terrible pen is biting them

9:27
Avatar Dan Szymborski: I can’t imagine he’s back for another inning.

9:27
Appa Yip Yip: Strasburg with the 5 inning save

9:27
Avatar David Laurila: This is a somewhat odd game. I can imagine it ending 1-0, 8-0, or 5-4.

9:27
Scherzer’s Piercing Blue Eye: David, you talk to a lot of pitchers … do you have any idea what a cortisone shot would do to mechanics?

9:27
abgb123: Sanchez available?

9:27
Avatar Dan Szymborski: He has to be.

9:28
Adam2: How honored do you think Beethoven would be traveling to the future and hearing/being told that 3 seconds of one his pieces is used to taunt opposing players in sports?

9:28
Avatar Dan Szymborski: I had to draw a conclusion from what we’ve seen, but I really think it’s clear that Scherzer wasn’t near 100% coming into the game.

9:29
Avatar Dan Szymborski: The BABIP gods seem kind to him though.

9:29
Avatar David Laurila: Good question on the cortisone shot. I’ll ask a few guys come spring training, but I’m guessing there’s little impact? Only one I’ve had was the knee, and everything felt “normal” afterwards, but I wasn’t a mound, so…

9:29
Ball on the Tracks: The dog or the composer?

9:29
Tvetter: I just finished cleaning up the beer off my television

9:29
Scrubladder: 7 stranded thru 4 innings

9:30
Avatar David Laurila: Another trivia thing that has nothing to do with this game: The 1927 Yankees hit 158 home runs — no other AL team hit more than 56 — and they also the led the league in walks. On the pitching side, NYY hurlers gave up the fewest walks, and the second fewest home runs. They finished 110-44, then swept the Pirates in the World Series.

9:31
Bat: Scherzer’s ability to wiggle out of trouble has been impressive…still only 1-0.

9:31
Cole’s Law: Dan – Smoltz said that Scherzer is better tonight thsn game 1!!

9:31
Avatar Dan Szymborski: General Zod says a lot of things.

9:32
Cole’s Law: Dan to be fair to Smoltz 1 is better than 2. And that’s as deep as the analysis went!!

9:32
Scratched Correa : Over under on pitchers Greinke throws this inning 11.5

9:32
Avatar Dan Szymborski: 3 outs on 2 pitches somehow

9:32
Guy Smiley: Just now settling in and catching up on the chat and have a comment on David’s Tuck-rule analogy with last night’s nonsense. The main difference is that in the Tuck Rule game, the Raiders basically stopped playing after the bad call and invited the Patriots to win the game, while the Nats strapped a pair on and made the bad call a footnote.

9:32
NathanLazarus: Doesn’t Max Scherzer usually strike out batters? Today he has only struck out a singular batter.

9:32
Scrubladder: Scherzer — 76 pitches 33 balls/43 strikes (it seems much worse)

9:32
Avatar David Laurila: Still five to go, but Greinke is on pace for a “Maddux.”

9:33
Avatar Dan Szymborski: There’s something ballsy about throwing Juan Soto a pitch as fast as probably 25% of the crowd could throw

9:33
Byron Buxton : I think Scherzer gets the 5th

9:33
Kiermaier’s Piercing Green Eyes: When prepping for Greinke, do the Nats get someone to go out there and throw 68 MPH eephuses? (Eephi?)

9:33
Avatar Dan Szymborski: They could hire me to throw some fastballs

9:33
Jacob DeSpaniel: Scherzer is mostly struggling with his changeup. The rest of his stuff is around the zone.

9:34
tz: On a ballsy-ballsy matchup, the pitcher has the edge

9:34
Lynn: Has this game felt more exciting than the others because we’ve had only 3 Ks?  Loud outs with runners on base are fun.

9:34
Avatar David Laurila: Not sure that was a swing. I’m generally of the opinion that check swings go in favor of the pitcher too often.

9:34
Avatar Dan Szymborski: It helps that things have been moving along.

9:34
Tommy L: Ump at third has a plane to catch

9:35
jonnyzuck: dan i think you are wildly overestimating how easy it is to throw a pitch 65 MPH

9:35
Avatar Dan Szymborski: I threw 68 when I was a teenager and I still hit 58 goofing around at a minor league game a couple years ago

9:35
Avatar Dan Szymborski: I imagine most adults could throw that fast

9:36
Thom: ugh thanks a lot for reminding me of the 2016 series Joe, sad cleveland fan here needs another beverage

9:36
Jason: What’s the actual check swing rule? I’ve heard it quoted many ways

9:36
Avatar David Laurila: I was at all seven games in 2016, and it was the thrill of a lifetime from a work perspective. Those ballparks were alive.

9:36
Avatar Dan Szymborski: It’s tricky – the MLB rule is actually an attempt to swing at the ball.

9:36
Avatar David Laurila: Check swing rule is “intent.” simple as that.

9:36
Avatar Dan Szymborski: And it leaves a lot of judgemtn

9:36
lukewarmtakes: I’m too lazy to consult the actual rulebook but I’ve been told it doesn’t actually define a swing vs check swing. Is this true?

9:36
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Yup

9:37
You Decide: Best world series of the 2010’s

9:37
Avatar Dan Szymborski: That sounds like a poll question!

9:37
Avatar Dan Szymborski: I wouldn’t pick this one.

9:37
Avatar David Laurila: Because of the way the check swing rule is worded, I’ve always been perplexed when a hitter is ruled to have swung when he’s 99% trying to get out of the way of a pitch

9:39
Tvetter: Another trivia fact that has nothing to do with this game: The Seattle Mariners is the only team to have never lost a World Series game

9:39
Avatar Dan Szymborski:

Best World Series of the 2010s?

2010 (SF vs. TEX) (0.7% | 2 votes)
 
2011 (STL vs. TEX) (17.7% | 45 votes)
 
2012 (SF vs. DET) (0.7% | 2 votes)
 
2013 (STL vs. BOS) (0.3% | 1 vote)
 
2014 (SF vs. KC) (9.0% | 23 votes)
 
2015 (NYM vs. KC) (2.7% | 7 votes)
 
2016 (CHC vs. CLE) (42.9% | 109 votes)
 
2017 (LAD vs. HOU) (20.4% | 52 votes)
 
2018 (LAD vs. BOS) (1.9% | 5 votes)
 
2019 (WAS vs. HOU) (3.1% | 8 votes)
 

Total Votes: 254
9:39
Chaim Bloom’s Underpants: In my judgment, 2018 was by far the best

9:39
Cole’s Law: KC San Fran is the only right answer.

9:40
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Man, 2013 World Series is de Blasio

9:40
Nate: Speaking of 2014 WS, Alex Gordon was going to be out if he went home…

9:41
Dennis: so we dont talk aout how stupid sac bunts are anymore right?

9:41
Avatar Dan Szymborski: We still do. But we got most of our jokes out for the Chirinos joke.

9:42
Byron Buxton : Dan how embarrassing is it for you that KC made two world series this decade?

9:42
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Why would it be embarrassing?

9:42
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Creed has 11 Platinum albums. Not everything that’s successful is awesome.

9:42
Actual Astros Fan: Greinke is making Bumgarner look like Edinson Volquez

9:42
Trent: Will it be the most awkward World Series celebration if Osuna closes out this 1-0 win for the Astros?

9:43
Avatar Dan Szymborski: For the watchers at least!

9:43
Appa Yip Yip: They only made one. The 2015 world series was cancelled after the ALCS

9:43
Lee Rumbah: I did not need to to know that Creed tidbit

9:43
Eel Ffilc: Creed- finally we’re talking about real music.

9:43
Avatar Dan Szymborski: 😫

9:44
Lightning Rodney: which do you think was the best WS, Dan?

9:44
Avatar Dan Szymborski: I’m on the popular choice here: 2016 was great.

9:44
Pat: Holy hell Im eating the BEST chili right now.  It’s (1) finely ground beef, (2) tomato sauce, (3) served over spaghetti.

9:44
Scherzer the 5th: Once more into the breech

9:44
NickG: Any chance of Greinke approaching some kind of WS record for assists by a pitcher?

9:44
Scrubladder: Gerrit Cole throwing in BP along with Pat Corbin for WASH

9:45
Ace: Ok, this is truly insane right? Is Davey going to throw Max out there until he gives up 5 runs?

9:45
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Still trusts ’em better than the pen

9:45
MJ: Would this be Cole’s first relief outing ever? With plenty of good relief options, why? This isn’t like SF’s bullpen in 2014

9:45
lukewarmtakes: I don’t feel like Houston’s bullpen is so bad that they need Cole for this game.

9:45
Avatar Dan Szymborski: I feel that Cole in the game is one charge of trying to be too cute

9:45
Avatar David Laurila: Good question. Pretty sure the regular season record for assists by a pitcher in a game is 12, but no idea about World Series.

9:45
Cole’s Law: Yes. By decre and law Cole will be pitching tonight. We will call it Cole’s Law.

9:45
Guest: Nats just needed Carlos Quentin on the bench for the ultimate anti Greinke’s collarbone plate appearance

9:46
Avatar Dan Szymborski: This game could very easily be 5-0 right now.

9:46
Hire Joe Morgan?: They just said the record is six by Maddux, and Greinke tied it.

9:46
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Oh man, when Bregman turned on that

9:47
Davey Martinez: How do I muster the courage to take Max out?

9:47
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Swat team

9:47
Chaim Bloom’s Underpants: Let’s see what Namgerb can do

9:47
Guy Smiley: Catching up on the chat, learning that Tom Seaver was a bum.

9:47
Wire Fan: All the cool kids are using their starters out of the pen.   Hinch should get Verkander loose too.

9:47
Avatar David Laurila: Nick Altrock is one of the pitchers with 12 assists in a game, and he fits this chat nicely.

9:47
Avatar Dan Szymborski: heh

9:47
Logan: WS trivia: Which three teams have won a WS despite losing three games in a row?

9:48
Actual Astros Fan: Cole is the best pitcher in the bigs right now, but as long as the Nats are only hitting weak groundouts and popups, Greinke needs to be pitching

9:49
Byron Buxton : Smoltz talking pitching mechanics is actually great

9:49
Avatar Dan Szymborski: He’s in his wheelhouse

9:49
Lee Rumbah: Maybe Cole blows the game and he only gets $249 million dollars next year

9:49
NickG: Maybe my favorite thing about baseball this year is that thing where they overlay pitches in one clip. I’m sure it’s been done for a while, but I just noticed it this year.

9:50
Ben3: Fox hired dshep for the overlays

9:50
tz: I hope Gurriel lets that hair grow till it doesn’t fit under his helmet, like Oscar Gamble.

9:50
Hire Joe Morgan?: I liked how they froze that so you could see his fingers at release.  How is anyone supposed to see that in real time, though?

9:51
SignedEpsteinsMother : The night is dark and full of terrors…but the fire burns them all away.

9:51
John Smoltz Hater: I’ve never heard a color commentator say more insightful things about pitching mechanics than John Smoltz. The only problem is he seems to not understand high level baseball strategy c. 2019

9:51
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: HEY EVERYONE KILEY IS HERE

9:51
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Hey Kiley!

9:52
Avatar Dan Szymborski:

9:52
lukewarmtakes: Kiley coming in for the 4 inning save.

9:52
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: Big day here at the house, got countertops installed so I’m walking on sunshine and whatnot

9:52
E5: Kiley! (In my best Norm voice)

9:52
Pat: Timallen just pawed at Baboon.

9:52
Appa Yip Yip: A wild Kiley appears!

9:52
Hire Joe Morgan?: Wait, Dan, is that a reaction to Kiley, or general feelings about the game?

9:52
Avatar Dan Szymborski: The eyes of teh beholder.

9:52
Kiley McDaniel: Hey that’s the imposter Kiley

9:52
Chaim Bloom’s Underpants: Kiley scared the entire infield into shifting severely

9:53
Ball on the Tracks: You hear MVP chants but never ROY chants

9:53
Avatar Dan Szymborski: R-O-Y doesn’t roll off the tongue. And just chanting Roy sounds like you’re chanting for a dude named Roy

9:53
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Which is OK if it’s halladay

9:53
Byron Buxton : My boss also got countertops installed today. Big day for countertop installation

9:54
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: yes big ups to the counter gods out there despite the week delay

9:54
Kiley McDonald : I’m the real one

9:54
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: wait a minute

9:54
The Hamburglar: I personally love the “Comeback Player of the Year” chants

9:54
Jason: Do you guys read the chats you aren’t involved in so that you know all the weird inside jokes that come up?

9:54
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: I generally do not

9:54
Avatar Dan Szymborski: I try to go in blind! That way every chat has its own unique contour.

9:54
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: pick my spots, try to keep my brand clean

9:54
Matt Damon: Why do they keep calling the AL ROY, Yore-dawn instead of Jordan as in Michael.

9:55
Kiley McDonaldiel: Misspelled my name srry

9:55
LFC Mike: If the Roman ad stays on your TV for four hours call your cable company

9:56
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: I’ve always been confused when they say it’s discrete packaging but the ads show the box says ROMAN and they have ads all over TV about how it’s for boners sooooo

9:55
Justin: Logan: 87 Twins, 91 Twins, 01 DBacks

9:55
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Commissioner’s-Historic-Achievement-Award!-clap-clap-clapclapclap

9:55
Avatar David Laurila: The 1987 World Series champion Twins went 29-52 on the road during the regular season and won one road game in the postseason.

9:56
Avatar Dan Szymborski: There are actually a LOT of good Roys in history

9:57
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Halladay, Campy, Owalt, Sievers, White, Face, McMillan, Smalley, Cullenbine

9:57
Joba Torre: Or Roy Hobbs?

9:57
Guy Smiley: Dan, I have a Roman coin with the emperor Justinian’s face stamped on it. I use it as a golf ball marker (when I’m lucky enough to golf).

9:57
Avatar David Laurila: Don’t forget Roy White.

9:58
lukewarmtakes: In dropping minor words to form acronyms, shouldn’t ROY actually be RTY?

9:58
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Roty

9:58
Guest: Lot of bad Roys too-guy from The Office, Moore

9:58
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: I always admired the Dodgers ROY run 1992-1996: Karros, Piazza, Mondesi, Nomo, Hollandsworth (!)

9:59
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: only one of them got an 8 year bid for corruption

9:58
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Roy got his life together.

9:58
Avatar Dan Szymborski: The Office, not Moore

9:58
Scrubladder: Roy Orbison

9:58
tz: And in the NHL, you have Patrick Roy.

9:58
Yordan Alvarez: What is TOOT BLANK in Spanish

9:59
Avatar Dan Szymborski: I think you review this play.

9:59
Avatar Dan Szymborski: BUt I don’t think there’s enough to overturn it.

9:59
Avatar Dan Szymborski: safe there or out is a BIG deal.

9:59
KJ: G. Biv

9:59
Jeremy: Roy Rogers

9:59
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: don’t really like the frame by frame when did he come off the bag stuff. really hard to do at full speed that was never called without replay

10:00
Avatar Dan Szymborski: And his restaurant that always had a horseradish pump, at least when I was a kid

10:00
Avatar David Laurila: As the late great Harry Nilsson once sang, “The other day, I met a girl named Joy. She said “Roy, I’m gonna make you my Joy Boy”

10:00
Cole’s Law: Stupid use of replay. Incidental Release of the bag while sliding over the bag. Not the point of the rule.

10:00
Avatar Dan Szymborski: I think you still check to see if it *was* as incidental as it was

10:00
Jeremy: Roy(ce) Clayton

10:00
Scrubladder: Roy is a solid Bollwood film pulling in an average 3.3/10 on IMDB

10:00
Nate: Maybe this has been established, but are you related to FG writer Rachael McDaniel, Kiley?

10:00
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: I am not!

(that’s enthusiasm, not a wish to never be related to Rachael, who is delightful)

10:00
Martini4me: Are there any ballparks with a lot of foul ground in the outfield any more?  Or have the stands all encroached and left us with only a few feet outside the line?

10:00
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Oakland vs. everybody else.

10:00
Kate Upton: Fantasy MVP: LeROYYYYYY JENKINS!

10:01
Cole’s Law: Kiley deleted the boner chat hahaha.

10:01
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: moved it to respond directly to the question

10:01
Tha baby cakez : Got my commemorative dodgers ROY baseball

10:01
Mad Joe-Don: Royal Tenenbaum?

10:01
Avatar Dan Szymborski: We’re REALLY stretching now

10:01
Avatar David Laurila: Dale Evans and Trigger had their favorite Roy.

10:02
Colin: Can’t forget Roman Roy

10:02
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: oh yes Succession brings together boner pills and Roys

10:02
Defenestrater: The Nationals shouldn’t have challenged. They want the run to score so it will be an odd lead

10:02
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Run still would have scored!

10:02
Avatar Dan Szymborski: But the joke is still good.

10:02
Kate Upton: Fantasy MVP: Hey, maybe it’s just a package of Roman memorabilia.

10:02
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: I thought it was Napoleon’s authentic package!

10:02
Brian CashGod: Fire Emblem Roy getting no respect

10:02
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Also Suikoden V Roy but we’r ereally stretching our Roys now.

10:02
Lunar verLander: And who can forget the greatest crowd chant from Super Smash Bros: Melee: “Roy’s our boy! Roy’s our boy!”

10:03
Bat: What are the Fangraphs odds that the Nats will now win?

10:03
Avatar Dan Szymborski: 18.4

10:03
KJ: Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron

10:03
Brian CashGod: That chant was half the reason I played as Roy

10:03
Scrubladder: Roy is a masculine given name and a family surname with varied origin. … In India, Roy is a variant of the surname Rai, likewise meaning “king”. It also arose independently in Scotland, an anglicisation from the Scottish Gaelic nickname ruadh, meaning “red”.

10:03
Chaim Bloom’s Underpants: When 1 run + 1 run + 2 runs, the lead has been DOUBLED. -Joe Buck

10:04
Cole’s Law: Kiley did not delete the boners. She actually just better at chatting than everyone else ever using this software.

10:04
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Wanna break the bad news Kiley?

10:04
Hire Joe Morgan?: Kiley, can you stop responding to the comment and post your responses as new comments?  When you do the former it automatically scrolls back up on us.

10:04
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: I AM MAN HEAR ME ROAR

10:05
The Hamburglar: Biggest name traded this offseason?

10:05
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Well, Edwin Encarnacion’s option may not be picked up

10:05
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Marc Rzepczynski is a free agent

10:06
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Adeiny Hechavarria is a FA too I think

10:06
Avatar Kiley McDaniel:

Preferred response style

Direct/below question (32.8% | 43 votes)
 
new/maybe separate from question if we’re moving fast (67.1% | 88 votes)
 

Total Votes: 131
10:06
Byron Buxton : Is Al Albuquerque still around?

10:06
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Mexico

10:06
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Ruben Rivera is still playing!

10:06
Scratched Correa : Kiley isn’t just a sexy girls name, but a man on fangraphs

10:06
Nate: Jarrod Saltalamacchia is available

10:06
Byron Buxton : Is Kiley your full given name or a nickname?

10:06
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Officially retired, no?

10:07
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: my actual name!

10:07
Geebs: Kiley apparently that doesn’t come out in your interactions

10:07
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: i am in touch with my feminine side

10:07
Jeremy: Kiley’s walkup music, apparently:

10:07
MJ: Ever met a Kyle E. McDaniel?

10:07
lukewarmtakes: Did Barry Bonds ever officially retired?

10:07
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Don’t believe so.

10:08
Sonny: Salty should have leaned into and put a 3rd R, and a superfluous D on the end of his first name

10:08
Captain America: Who was a better baseball prospect, Tim Tebow or Colin Kaepernick

10:08
Hire Joe Morgan?: He’s no longer on pace for a Maddux.  Woe.

10:08
Pat: What’s “a Maddux”

10:08
Avatar Dan Szymborski: CG Shutout under 100 pitches

10:08
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: Kap was a draftable top 5ish round type when he stopped. Tebow would be 10th-15th if he went thru the process

10:08
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Running to bathroom

10:09
Byron Buxton : Ever consider going by Daniel McKiley?

10:09
Babes man: Omg hai2u Kiley A/S/L plz?????

10:09
Avatar David Laurila: A pitching staff consisting of 2006 first-round, and supplemental first-round, picks could include Max Scherzer, Clayton Kershaw, Tim Lincecum, Andrew Miller, Adam Ottavino, Brandon Morrow, Jeremy Jeffress, Daniel Bard, Joba Chamberlain, and Ian Kennedy.

10:09
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: lots of gender talk for me tonight? i’ve been on the internet for awhile

10:10
John Jaso Jingle Heimer Schmidt: I went to school with Joba Chamberlain. I miss him more than certain dead relatives of mine.

10:10
Sonny: The Bard and Joba ‘could-have-been’ conversation is wild. Those guys had a moment.

10:10
Matt Damon: Pat Mahomes is better at baseball than either

10:10
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: slightly, yes

10:10
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: notable as bat and arm, better on the mound

10:10
Adam2: Are you regretting signing on yet?

10:10
Avatar David Laurila: From my experiences, both Joba and D. Bard are good guys.

10:10
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: it’s a real vibe in here

10:11
Wire Fan: Why do people say complete game shutout?   Isn’t a pitcher throwing a shutout by definition a complete game?

10:11
Avatar David Laurila: Bingo!

10:15
Avatar David Laurila: Meanwhile, in tonight’s “other” Houston-Washington game, Japanese sensation Rui Hachimura has 21 points for the Wizards midway through the fourth.

10:16
SignedEpsteinsMother : I saw Blue Oyster Cult and Edgar Winter (Frankenstein) on acid at the Auditorium. It was on of the first “laser shows”.
it was awesome!

10:16
TKDC: Why do people say ATM machine?

10:17
Avatar David Laurila: This chat is getting weirder and weirder.

10:18
Trent: Suppose this lead holds up and Greinke wins the MVP; does tonight’s performance have any effect on his HOF odds?

10:18
Avatar David Laurila: Different people view the Hall of Fame differently, but sure, a World Series MVP is a good add to the resume.

10:19
Chaim Bloom’s Underpants: Home teams are 19-20 in WS Game 7, collectively…

10:19
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: PIN number

10:20
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Back

10:20
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Wait, how did the chat get weirder and weirder while I was *away* from the keyboard?

10:20
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: heard a stat today that deciding games in baseball go to the away team more than home, which is kinda unbelievable?

10:20
Actual Astros Fan: I’m too scared the switch a TV to the Rockets game (I have more than 1 in my living room and all are on the Astros game.) I don’t wanna jinx anything

10:21
Scrubladder: Daylight SavingS time drives me nuts.  It is not plural

10:21
Avatar Dan Szymborski: You save daylight each day

10:21
Hire Joe Morgan?: What happened to the bathroom computer, Dan?

10:21
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: dayslight saving

10:21
Avatar Dan Szymborski: I try not to chat while I’m going to the bathroom

10:21
Appa Yip Yip: You weren’t here as a release valve. We spiralled…

10:21
ViewerfromHolland: If the ump could stop calling the outside balls, strikes, that’d be great

10:22
Avatar Dan Szymborski: “And that pitcher grew up to be….Tom Glavine. And now you know…the rest of the story.”

10:22
Matt Damon: Who gets a bigger contract next year, Pat Mahomes or Gerrit Cole?

10:22
Avatar Dan Szymborski: A confused Royals sign original Pat Mahomes/

10:22
Jay Jaffe: Greinke has a better JAWS than 36 of the 65 Hall of Fame pitchers

10:22
Prisoner of WAR: Sweet. I’m the only guy who voted for the 2013 WS. That was a special BOS team, although the ALCS was more remarkable than the WS. Actually a pretty wild and weird WS too. One game ended with a pickoff at 1B (Hi, Kolten.)

10:22
Avatar David Laurila: Speaking of 2013, that was the Series with the Will Middlebrooks interference call that ended a game. Can you imagine if last night’s call would have done that?

10:23
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: gimme Cole, since his will be a fully guaranteed $200Mish

10:23
Adam: What are you guys handing out for Halloween?

10:23
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: HOT TAKES

10:24
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Nothing. I’m the youngest on my block by like 40 years.

10:24
Avatar Dan Szymborski: OK, 24 years since my mom is on the block. But she’s the second-youngest on the block.

10:24
lukewarmtakes: Do you live in a retirement community, Dan?

10:24
Avatar Dan Szymborski: No, Ohio suburb.

10:25
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: HOMER

10:25
Pd: A Dan chat is funky. A Kiley chat is funky. A Dan+Kiley chat is Super Freaky

10:25
Dennis: how many ppl in chat, most ever?

10:25
Avatar Dan Szymborski: I know we’ve hit 1,000 at a time.

10:25
Avatar David Laurila: Counting the postseason, Anthony Rendon has driven in 141 runs this year. Regardless of what you think of the stat, that’s impressive.

10:26
Kiermaier’s Piercing Green Eyes: Isn’t the biggest chat the trade deadline one?

10:26
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Opening Day maybe?

10:26
Appa Yip Yip: Spaghetti is just round bread

10:26
Avatar Dan Szymborski: 4,599 uniques for trade deadline

10:26
Avatar Dan Szymborski: And that only went two hours!@

10:27
Avatar Dan Szymborski: We were only able to answer 9.7% of the questions received.

10:27
Adam2: How much are championship shares worth these days?

10:27
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: I think $600k?

10:27
Avatar Dan Szymborski: 23% tonight. Which is about normal for a SzymChat.

10:27
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: somewhere around there

10:27
John Jaso Jingle Heimer Schmidt: It just dawned on me that this is the last baseball until February and now I’m sad

10:27
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: it’s like $20k just for losing a wild card game

10:28
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Do I have a Rendon video game GIF anywhere?

10:28
Cole’s Law: Remember Greinke can’t pitch in a big game that’s why New York is on his no trade list!!!

10:29
Cole’s Law: Beer. Or not to beer!!!

10:29
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: umm that fact doesn’t fit the narrative let’s just forget this outing and bring it up again next year

10:29
Avatar David Laurila: Why is that even a question? As has been pointed out, this is the last baseball for months.

10:30
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: trade deadline chat got to like 1400 or so I think?

10:30
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Settle in guys!

10:30
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Will Harris? Nope.

10:30
Jeremy: Juan Soto is the new Adrian Beltre

10:30
5 Run Homer: HOWIE!!!!

10:30
Scrubladder: HOME RUNG!!!!!!

10:30
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: not perfect, but i agree with it in spirit

10:31
Avatar Dan Szymborski: QUADRILATERANGLE!

10:31
BABY SHARK: DOO DOO DOO DOO DOO DOO

10:31
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: i think i’m on a delay

10:31
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: will harris just threw a curveball for a strike

10:31
Avatar Dan Szymborski: lol sorry kiley

10:31
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: HOME RUN I SAW IT

10:31
Avatar Dan Szymborski: I’ll try not to get excited for 45 seconds after things

10:31
Avatar David Laurila: Will Harris has been claimed off waivers three time in his career.

10:31
huhu: cant wait for baseball twitter to talk more about the soto walk than howies home run

10:31
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: IT BANGED ON THE POLE

10:31
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: fun fact: i broke the news of one of will harris’ waiver claims

10:32
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: one of like 5 things I’ve ever broken news about

10:32
Avatar Dan Szymborski:

10:32
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: I also broke Albies signing when he was 16 and I didn’t know anything about him

10:32
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: and that’s about it

10:32
Cole’s Law: David. How many times did he enjoy driving in a run!!

10:32
Avatar David Laurila: Every, Last. One.

10:33
Avatar Dan Szymborski: I accidentally found out about Epstein/Lucchino issues 6 months before media started reporting it and I was too dumb to realize it at the time.

10:33
lukewarmtakes: What’s the purpose of the screen portion of the foul pole?

10:33
Avatar Dan Szymborski: You save on metal!

10:33
SignedEpsteinsMother : Even a man who is pure of heart and says his prayers at night, may become a wolf when the Rendon blooms and the autumn moon is bright.

10:33
Avatar David Laurila: Is that you, Meg?

10:33
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: “fastball that cut down and he just kinda swings at it”

10:35
John Jaso Jingle Heimer Schmidt: Howie Mother____ing Kendrick. Wow.

10:35
Ace: Can I say that I love when the baseball heros are guys like Howie, frigging Kendrick? Good player, underrated career, but 36 year old backup-DH’s as world series HR stars… that’s kinda amazing.

10:36
Guy Smiley: And now it’s Osuna in the 7th? Shades of Joe Madden in 2016 (the Cubs won in spite of him…)

10:36
Avatar Dan Szymborski: This is a high leverage inning.

10:37
mordecai’s finger: just jumping in the chat, but man is howie making the salt lake bees proud

10:37
Ace: Yeah, Osuna makes sense. But karma-wise, him giving up another HR now would be glorious.

10:37
Dystopian Future: Osuna SHOULD be pitching now. What, would you rather put in Josh James and put Osuna in in the ninth potentially down by three?

10:37
CJ: So, where was Cole?

10:37
Dak To The Future: How embarrassing is this for Houston that they put two dozen men on in 6 innings and couldn’t seal the deal?

10:38
John Jaso Jingle Heimer Schmidt: sㄥ ǝɯɐ⅁ ǝʌol I

10:38
Tha baby cakez : Kendrick is so hot right now

10:38
Avatar Dan Szymborski: OO⊥ SIH⊥ Oᗡ N∀Ͻ I

10:38
Dystopian Future: It’s not very embarrassing. Max Scherzer is a good pitcher.

10:38
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: I’m writing the FA preview and lots of teams think he’s the perfect righty utility low money glue guy

10:38
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: (kendrick)

10:38
Dystopian Future: Kendrick had an OPS of nearly 1.000 this year, he’s been hot since April.

10:38
Steve : I don’t know about embarrassing. It was Scherzer they were facing.

10:38
ViewerfromHolland: Any list with WIllie Stargell and Kendrick on it, is a good list in my book

10:39
TKDC: Hindsight and all that but couldn’t Osuna pitch the rest of the seventh and Cole for 8-9?

10:39
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: I assume those two split the rest of this

10:40
Dystopian Future: Kiley surely teams view him as DH-only though, right?

10:40
Avatar Dan Szymborski: 𝑨𝑵𝑫 𝑯𝑬𝑬𝑬𝑬𝑬𝑬𝑬𝑬𝑬𝑬𝑬𝑬𝑬𝑹𝑬 𝑪𝑶𝑴𝑬 𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑷𝑹𝑬𝑻𝒁𝑬𝑳𝑺

10:40
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: nah, 2B, 3B, 1B, DH

10:40
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: but like 350 PA probably

10:40
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Not someone you put at 2B full time anymore, but he can at least fake 2B enough as a role player

10:40
Jesse: Doesn’t Kendrick have like the 10th best AVG over the last 2 years?

10:41
Avatar David Laurila: Highest

10:41
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: we signed sean rodriguez when i was with ATL for the same idea, but he was passable at SS and was more everyday guy at a bunch of positions

10:41
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: (that didn’t work out)

10:41
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: FUN HOWIE KENDRICK BIT

10:41
Avatar Dan Szymborski: If you set the minimum at 500 PA, Kendrick has the highest BA in MLB the last two years.

10:41
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: Eric and I are finishing up the first draft of a book and the story of how he was drafted is in there. It’s pretty crazy.

10:41
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Over the last two years.

10:42
The Hamburglar: Astros seem to induce a ton of pop ups this October

10:42
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: that’s a primary side effect of up-in-the-zone 4-seamers

10:42
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: which they also love

10:42
Dystopian Future: “Eric and I are finishing up the first draft of a book” HOLD ON THERE A SECOND

10:43
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: MORE DETAILS COMING SOON!

10:43
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Yes, but you have to keep the minimums low.

10:43
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: (but not tonight)

10:43
Geebs: Kiley would you work for an mlb team again?

10:43
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: sure, but the list of requirements is a lot longer now

10:43
Scrubladder: Kendrick is the 6th player to hit go-ahead HR in 7th or later in a game 7 of the World Series

10:43
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: like the situation, not like a suite on the road and private flights

10:43
Dystopian Future: Where can I get this book? Where will it be? When is it? Did I miss details about this?

10:43
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: summer 2020

10:44
The Hamburglar: I’m upset I wont get to see the Charmin “My hiney’s clean” commercial after tonight

10:44
Avatar Dan Szymborski:

10:44
Dystopian Future: I wonder if there’s a real chance Kendrick takes this as a victory lap. This might be a little presumptuous, but what are the chances he rides off into the sunset after this season?

10:44
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: i think we’re gonna reenact it

10:45
Appa Yip Yip: Is one of the requirements “run your entire expansion draft”?

10:45
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: YES

10:45
Avatar Dan Szymborski: I dont’ get the Charmin commercials. Who’s getting toilet paper stuck in their butt?

10:45
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: it’s my franchise mode dreams come true

10:45
tz: Roman spelled backwards is “n’amor”

10:45
Avatar Dan Szymborski: THE SUBMARINER

10:45
Byron Buxton : Howie Kendrick does a great Rajai Davis

10:45
What: How bout this game peeps

10:45
Chris: Does Will Harris make the all goat team?

10:45
The Hamburglar: You dont need to get the commercials, Dan. You just need to know that the child bear has a clean hiney

10:45
AdamZ: Why would a bear that doesnt wear undies have dirty undies?

10:45
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: SOME OF US DON’T HAVE WORRY-FREE NUMBER TWOS, DAN

10:45
Byron Buxton : Kiley do you root for the Braves?

10:46
Avatar Dan Szymborski: I eat Nashville hot chicken!

10:46
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: nah working for a team makes you not want to blindly root for any team, person or planet

10:46
The Hamburglar: It’s not really a baseball book though, more like a YA novel

10:46
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: i’m so angsty and i need an outlet to share it. and characters with absurd names

10:46
Kiermaier’s Piercing Green Eyes: Kiley you don’t support earth? Like when it’s martians vs humanity you’re gonna be all “I’m just hoping for a good war?”

10:46
Avatar Dan Szymborski: OK, how about this YA novel: it’s about a child assassin on a baseball team and he has to murder his entire team before the little league season is over.

10:46
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: earth has some real problematic people when you see the behind the scenes

10:46
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Keep it lighthearted.

10:47
Steve Nebraska: It’s poop not toilet paper getting stuck… And why aren’t the parent bears wearing underwear if their kid should be?

10:47
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: sounds like the south park little league episode

10:47
The Hamburglar: What is it about working in baseball that makes you lose interest in being a fan? I’ve heard that quite a few times

10:47
5 Run Homer: Sicnarf Loopstok

10:47
Lunar verLander: Why does Dan have a picture next to his name, but not Kiley?

10:47
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: i would add one

10:47
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: but i’m not sure how

10:48
Avatar Dan Szymborski: It’s not even a picture of me. It’s a photoshop of Andy Reid Taft.

10:49
ben: Man sits shirtless at ballpark for entire game: No problema. Woman flashes boobs for one second: Banned from all MLB parks “indefinitely.”

10:50
The One: The universe is a lot like sports, isn’t it?

10:50
Avatar Dan Szymborski: There, I switched to my President’s Day avatar.

10:50
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: I DID IT

10:50
Dystopian Future: Kiley’s picture should just be a cabinet.

10:50
Lee Rumbah: There is nothing worse than sitting next to the shirtless guy

10:50
tz: Winnie the Pooh never wore any underwear either.

10:50
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: porky pigging it, as it were

10:51
tz: Does Asdrubal Cabrera have number two issues?

10:51
Avatar Dan Szymborski: What’s disturbing is in cartoons when *some* of the characters wear pants but some do not.

10:51
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: not as bad as Kaz Matsui

10:51
Avatar David Laurila: OK, I’m rooting for extra innings. I’m on the east coast and love sleep, but still.

10:51
AdamZ: I always called it Donald Ducking

10:51
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: it still bothers me that he wears a towel after a shower

10:51
Avatar Dan Szymborski:

10:51
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: but it’s just out there the rest of the day

10:52
Avatar Dan Szymborski: A couple of them are wearing pants. So that means the rest of them are NOT

10:52
The One: Imagine a future where hits are determined exclusively by exit velocity and launch angle.

10:52
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: this is the future liberals want

10:52
Avatar Dan Szymborski:

10:52
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Again, some are wearing pants, some are not.

10:52
Lightning Rodney: I really thought Corbin was going to throw it into right field

10:53
Eric Matthews: The females are wearing pants, Dan

10:53
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Yeah, but if they need to wear pants, shouldn’t monterey jack?

10:53
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: scout just awoke from her 14th nap of the day and is joining me on the couch for the finale

10:54
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Daisy Duck doesn’t wear pants

10:54
LFC Mike: Bugs Bunny only wore clothes in drag.

10:54
Avatar David Laurila: Not true. He wore a uni when he beat the Gas-House Gorillas in Baseball Bugs,

10:55
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Then Goof Troop came along and everyone got pants.

10:55
Avatar Dan Szymborski:

10:55
Appa Yip Yip: Yakko wore pants no shirt, wakko had a dress, and Dot had a skirt no shirt

10:56
Avatar Dan Szymborski:

10:56
Cole’s Law: All of the Astros are wearing pants.

10:56
Kiermaier’s Piercing Green Eyes: We waited until game seven to bust out this Baby Shark cover? What if it didn’t get this far?

10:56
Guest: I just wish DIsney would treat dogs the same Goofy can talk and wear clothes but Pluto’s just a regular dog essentially

10:56
Hire Joe Morgan?: Let’s be fair.  How many people in the chat are wearing pants?  And could you extrapolate a generality from that?

10:56
Avatar Dan Szymborski: If it makes you guys uncomfortable when I say I’m not wearing pants, I mean I’m not wearing pants I’d go to a restaurant with. I’m still wearing gym shorts.

10:56
Adam: I am currently not wearing pants

10:57
Avatar Dan Szymborski:

I Am Wearing…

Pants (34.7% | 65 votes)
 
Shorts (24.0% | 45 votes)
 
Boxers (15.5% | 29 votes)
 
Long Johns (5.3% | 10 votes)
 
Pajamas with the Button Butt Pocket (13.9% | 26 votes)
 
Nothing (6.4% | 12 votes)
 

Total Votes: 187
10:57
Dave: Dan never wears pants.  Jorts, sure.  Pants no

10:57
Avatar Dan Szymborski: I have zero pairs of shorts.

10:57
Avatar Dan Szymborski: err jorts

10:57
LT: You are a professional musician, you have practiced arduously your whole life. Finally, you are awarded the opportunity to show your talents on national television. You are assigned to play “Baby Shark.” How do you feel?

10:58
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: non baseball fan friend just now: “My excellent baseball take is I like the way the Nationals dance.”

10:58
Dystopian Future: Why is jorts not an option on the poll? Why is Gardner Minshew not allowed to vote on this poll? This is a TRAVESTY.

10:58
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Jorts are a subcategory of shorts

10:58
Donald Glover: is there a dietary solution to sticky poop

10:58
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Fiber?

10:59
Scrubladder: David you get 1 hour back this weekend if that is any comfort

10:59
Also Dan: What category do sweatpants fall in?

10:59
Avatar David Laurila: At my age I’ll gladly take every hour I can get back.

10:59
Harambe: Why isn’t a dress an option? Or Skirt?

10:59
Donald Glover: FYI Houston beat Washington 159-158 in the NBA tonight

10:59
SignedEpsteinsMother : Or a Kilt?

11:00
Jeff: Pants….shirts…gd social constructs

11:00
lukewarmtakes: Leg coverings have taken such a prominent role in this chat.

11:00
Avatar Dan Szymborski: 99% of people have legs.

11:00
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Having legs unites most of us.

11:00
Cole’s Law: Grienke almost pitched a perfect game tonight. According to the announcers.

11:00
Roy: Do the astros not have a LOOGY/lefty killer in their pen?

11:00
Avatar Dan Szymborski: No lefties

11:00
LFC Mike: When people read the transcript of this chat there is no way they will know it is game 7

11:00
Avatar Dan Szymborski: We talk a LOT of baseball!

11:01
Mike Sixel: An NBA game just ended 159-158 in regulation…..

11:01
Lightning Rodney: how… did we get here?

11:01
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: you should see the ones we don’t publish

11:01
Appa Yip Yip: I understand why Dan attracts weirdos like us, but why does Kiley attract weirdos like us?

11:01
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: but i have a moral obligation

11:01
tz: East Coast on five or less hours of sleep = excuse to get Dunkin Donuts coffee 🙃

11:01
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: my parents ask me that pretty often

11:01
Avatar David Laurila: The heck with D&D. I’ll be at my local, 1369 Coffee House, in the morning. Will be working on a Red Sox front office/analytics department/Chaim Bloom-hire piece.

11:02
Howard V: These chats are much more disciplined when Meg’s in charge!

11:02
I H8 Pants: What are the worst kind of pants: Khaki, Blue Jean’s, corduroy, linen.

11:02
Avatar Dan Szymborski: When I first saw the name of that movie I was trying to figure out HTF “Matt Damon Ford” was.

11:02
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: curduroy by a mile

11:02
MilwaukeeBeerJays: DANDANDANDANDAN DANDADAN DAN DAN! y astros losing?

11:02
Avatar Dan Szymborski: cuz 3 > 2

11:02
Tvetter: Following the chat distracts me from Joe Buck chatter

11:02
Lightning Rodney: an even run lead would be pretty nice for the nats right about now

11:03
svan: how long do you stick with Corbin? first righty after the first time through the order is complete?

11:03
Avatar David Laurila: I think Corbin goes another inning.

11:03
Avatar Dan Szymborski: UNWRITTEN RULE OMG STEALING BASE WHEN UP ONE

11:03
Avatar Kiley McDaniel:

Top pants?

Jeans (48.9% | 69 votes)
 
Khakis (14.1% | 20 votes)
 
Curduroy (4.9% | 7 votes)
 
Chinos (12.0% | 17 votes)
 
Chaps (6.3% | 9 votes)
 
Linen (7.8% | 11 votes)
 
Shants (5.6% | 8 votes)
 

Total Votes: 141
11:03
Avatar Dan Szymborski: I wear shorts like 10 months of the year.

11:03
Uhhhh: What are shants?

11:03
Avatar David Laurila: Does anyone actually wear Corduroys anymore?

11:04
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Half pants, half sh…never mind

11:04
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: i’m being inclusive!

11:04
Hire Joe Morgan?: We need a weighted ballot.  I like corduroys, just not as much as jeans.

11:04
Ace: Is it wrong that I’m still rooting for Osuna to get hammered? Like, 3 runs on 4 hits and line drives all over the place?

11:04
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: i don’t think you’re the only one

11:04
Avatar Dan Szymborski: We missed Cordu Roy earlier in our Roy tallying

11:04
Jim: If this goes into the bottom of the 9th with the current score, does the minute maid staff tape up the plastic in both locker rooms?

11:04
E5: SWEATPANTS win as a write in!

11:04
Avatar Dan Szymborski: I hate sweatpants. They’re way too warm.

11:05
Defenestrater: Just have Osuna let up two runs. Then it will still be an odd lead, so the Astros can still win

11:05
AdamZ: What makes these replays 4d?

11:05
Cole’s Law: I wore shorts and flip flops to dinner tonight. My family was in winter coats and rain boots.

11:05
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: Joe Buck is the 4th D

11:06
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Even lead. WE dropped to 0.01%

11:06
Scrubladder: My parents are to blame why I am here

11:06
Scrubladder: Weirdos follow Kiley b/cs they think he is a she

11:06
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: this makes sense

11:06
Avatar Dan Szymborski: “Joe Buck is the third heat!”

11:06
ViewerfromHolland: Remember guys, this kid is only 21

11:06
Avatar Dan Szymborski: I think we used up all our 21 jokes

11:06
forestation: Would Nats be the biggest underdog winners in recent history?

11:06
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: Juan Soto went to Rice

11:06
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Nats are better than the Royals

11:06
AntiTaubman: Do you guys think A-Rod will ever live down his comments on odd versus even leads?

11:07
Avatar David Laurila: I generally don’t gush, but man is hard not to gush about Soto.

11:07
Avatar Dan Szymborski: 99% of people don’t care. It’s just us baseball nerds that joke about it

11:07
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: Soto is just like the best

11:07
Avatar Dan Szymborski: One last look at the neural network nicknames.

11:07
Avatar Dan Szymborski:

11:07
Kiermaier’s Piercing Green Eyes: I think A-Rod is just happy we’re talking about something dumb he said instead of his PED usage or that time he slapped the ball out of the first baseman’s glove.

11:07
Avatar Dan Szymborski: CENTAUR

11:08
Avatar David Laurila: So, where would the Nationals season have gone had Davey Martinez been fired in May?

11:08
kershaws the GOAT: kiley who cares if hes a good person

11:08
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: it’s another baseball aesthetic choice. you can like fastballs or strikeouts or dingers or redeemable humans, etc.

11:09
Dodger Fan: True Fact: Clayton Kershaw as a prospect was known as the Minotaur

11:09
tz: Soto gaining rapidly on Trout in career championship win probability added.

11:09
Appa Yip Yip: If Juan Soto found your wallet he’d return it with all the money inside.

11:09
Avatar Dan Szymborski: He’s put in mor emoney

11:09
Steve Nebraska: So who’s the MVP going to be? The Duke of Punta Cana? Pekos Bill?  Other?

11:09
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: I believe they plastic both clubhouses, yes

11:09
Avatar Dan Szymborski: The Duke

11:09
Dystopian Future: In comes A-Jazz.

11:10
Avatar Dan Szymborski:

11:10
The Hamburglar: Juan Soto played in the LLWS for Tom’s River, NJ

11:11
Adam2: Kiley, did you intentionally respond late to the clubhouse plastic to get back at us for voting against direct replies?

11:11
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: MAYBE

11:11
Nate: So who wins MVP: Kendrick, Soto, Rendon?

11:11
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: Taubman

11:11
Avatar Dan Szymborski:

The World Series MVP

Howie Kendrick (6.6% | 18 votes)
 
Juan Soto (21.7% | 59 votes)
 
Anthony Rendon (32.4% | 88 votes)
 
Anna Kendrick (15.4% | 42 votes)
 
Astros Hitter Who Hits Three Run Shot off Crappy Nats Reliever (23.6% | 64 votes)
 

Total Votes: 271
11:12
Joe: No but seriously, The Great American Baseball Show? What was this neural net trained on?!

11:13
Joe: Does anyone else get a full page, bright red warning when visiting FanGraphs?  It started for me today and says it’s a deceptive website

11:13
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Haven’t seen it or any other reports

11:13
Maggie25: Fangraphs tries to deceive me all the time, but I trust no one

11:13
Dystopian Future: Look, seriously, we need to stop and talk about the fact that FERNANDO RODNEY MIGHT JUST GET A WORLD SERIES RING

11:14
Jeff: Kiley or EL: How hyped should I be for Nick Frasso next Spring? Frasso or Hugh Fisher might be my top 2020 college arms, Dax Fulton at the HS level

11:14
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: Frasso probably 2nd-3rd round college arm but some upside for higher if he shoves

11:15
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: Fisher higher upside possible 1st rounder, interested to see how Vandy deploys that loaded staff

11:15
LFC Mike: Talk to transformer  picks ??? For MVP

11:15
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Talk to Transformer was less help than usual.

11:15
Avatar Dan Szymborski:

11:16
Guest: I don’t get the red warning when I go to Fangraphs, but I did get a helpful notice that the FBI was investigating my computer activity and I was able to clear it up for a small payment. Thank God for the internet!

11:16
Dale Ironheart: Just ate a cream sandwich with chocolate cookie bread.  Chili?

11:16
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Not an ice cream sandwich? Just a cream sandwich?

11:16
Tyler: why Corbin?

11:16
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Even lead. You bring in someone else with a one or three-run lead

11:17
Hire Joe Morgan?: Sorry, people.  I like Anna Kendrick.

11:17
Appa Yip Yip: Strasburg has a good case for it though

11:17
Dale Ironheart: yes it was labeled “Oreo”

11:17
Tyler: seriously they have Hudson and Doo

11:17
Wire Fan: Kiley does the SW allow multiple replies at the same time?  Can you just open up a reply and have someone see “Kiley is typing a reply” and just leave someone hanging?

11:17
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: if i was a real dick, yes

11:17
Adam2: Pitch Perfect pun

11:17
Cole’s Law: iPhone 11 pro is really missing its best selling point. Fab graphs chat 4 hours. Still 1/2 battery and phone not 1 million degrees. Who cares about the camera.

11:18
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: use all three cameras to read the chat

11:18
Nate: So, usually most employees get a WS ring, would they send one to Brandon Taubman?

11:18
Byron Buxton : Terrible call there

11:18
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: they definitely would

11:18
Avatar Dan Szymborski: That was an awful call. It didn’t catch any corner.

11:18
Zekeydude: I’m going for the Nats, but that was not a strike.

11:19
Kiley McDonaldiel: With these umps we have no chance

11:19
Ace: That’s truly a horrific call. Really, robot umps wouldn’t help with this? Couldn’t you just have an electronic signal with a earpiece in the umpire’s ear? They can over-rule, but at least they know it is?

11:19
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Ump will just ignore it

11:19
ben: Doolittle makes me wish Chris Berman was still calling games, so he could call him De-doo-doo-doo-de-da-da-da-little.

11:20
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: we need robot umps with NATITUDE

11:20
Avatar David Laurila: In a winner-take-all game to go to the World Series in 1962, the Giants trailed the Dodgers 4-2 in the top of the ninth, only to score four runs. Billy Pierce, who threw a shutout two days earlier, came on to get the save.

11:20
Joe: Talk to Transform agrees!

11:20
Appa Yip Yip: It’s amazing how much I want to root for individual Astros players while also wanting them to lose.

11:20
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: their coaches/players are almost undefeated in likability and their office is the most hated in baseball by a lot and now not just from people in the industry

11:21
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: it’s an odd juxtaposition that i can’t recall happening before

11:21
Avatar Dan Szymborski:

11:21
EarlWeaverJr: Zero scouts just seems like a troll job.

11:21
Yuppi: One team will break their winning streak in elimination games tonight

11:21
Jordan: Will Brandon Taubman get another job in MLB again o is it back to investment banking for him?

11:22
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: B

11:22
Chaim Bloom’s Underpants: Robut umps would just whirr and zap and confusion would abound

11:22
Adam2: What is Talk to Transform?

11:22
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: unplug him and plug him back in

11:22
11:22
Lightning Rodney: Kiley, I think you forgot the have Osuna

11:22
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: i said almost!

11:22
The Hamburglar: Was the Astros front office hated by other front offices before all this stuff came to light recently?

11:23
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: it was all some version of the Luhnow hate. Hubris, bad people skills, etc.

11:23
Maggie25: Kiley you’re forgetting the 1989 Cleveland Indians run by Rachel Phelps

11:23
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: Roger Dorn was problematic

11:23
Avatar Dan Szymborski: TalkToTransformer is the best. You can do stuff like let it complete lyrics in a dark, dark manner.

11:23
Avatar Dan Szymborski:

11:24
Wire Fan: Why is Fox playing the inning out with “very superstitious”?

11:24
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: i think that song jinxed the no hitter

11:24
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Or generate some Bond movie plots.

11:24
Avatar Dan Szymborski:

11:24
divcoman: Luhnow spoke at SaberSeminar in Boston a few years ago and was impressive.

11:24
Black eye brown eye blue eye: Who gets a job first? Taubman or whoever the pirates hire

11:24
Dystopian Future: I will say though that “Dixie Dust” is a great nickname and should be used for someone.

11:25
lukewarmtakes: Did we learn nothing from all those Terminator movies?

11:25
Uhhhh: I tried “Max Scherzer’s nickname is” in Talk to Transformer and it referenced fangraphs.com

11:25
TKDC: Willy Hayes was cool until we found out he didn’t pay his taxes.

11:25
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: Connor Roy playing CF

11:25
Zekeydude: Wrong lyrics.

11:27
Avatar David Laurila: David Appelman is enjoying this game somewhere. That needs to be pointed out.

11:27
Avatar Dan Szymborski:

11:28
Amoanipupas: Also you’re all a bunch of heathens for not preferring linen pants. More comfortable than sweat pants, cooler than shorts and better at looking the perfect blend of casually sophisticated and relaxed than anything else.

11:28
TKDC: Good thing Cole is rested now for the next game.

11:28
Joe: J.A. Happ has never pitched for the Twins.

11:28
Matt Damon: Does Smoltz even like baseball?

11:28
Matthew:

11:28
Jeff: Everything you once loved was low key super prejudiced and offensive

11:28
forestation: AJ Hinch deserves a trophy for sticking with his best relievers despite pressure from the pitchfork mob

11:28
Avatar Dan Szymborski: I didn’t have a problem bringing in Harris

11:28
Avatar Dan Szymborski: I just hated that Chirinos bunt

11:29
Avatar Dan Szymborski: You could see the look in Marisnick’s eyes as he considered the very low probability dive

11:29
Nate: Jason Heyward and Sir Mix-a-Lot. What a combo

11:29
kylie is a girl?:

11:29
Joe: I absolutely *love* Joe Smith’s slider. Takes a left turn 3/4 of the way to the plate.

11:29
Avatar Dan Szymborski: I think I started something

11:29
Dystopian Future: Marisnick had that same look you see at the end of no-hitters.

11:29
The Hamburglar: I can’t stand pundits trying to blame the manager for any decision that turns out negatively

11:30
Jeff: Trea Turner’s a good ass player

11:30
Avatar Dan Szymborski: I only blame the manager for things that I question as they happen

11:30
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: FUN TREA TURNER STORY

11:31
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: I told him early in his sophomore year at NC State that he was just as good as Rodon and should go in the top 10 picks a little over a year later (he almost did), and at this point Rodon was a 1-1 lock and Turner was some other guy on the team. I ended up meeting his parents a year later and they thanked me for believing in their son. I’ve randomly run into them multiple other times and they’re always so nice and I’m like I literally have nothing to do with him being really good at baseball.

11:30
Lightning Rodney: “there’s no script to go by that works all the time” – thanks Smoltz

11:30
LFC Mike: But will you finish it Dan?

11:30
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Never!

11:30
ben: Why, is David A. a Nats fan?

11:30
Avatar David Laurila: Don’t know his rooting history, but he lives in Arlington, VA and goes to Nats games.

11:30
Joe: Kiley is never going to finish typing his reply.

11:30
Scrubladder: Kiley McDaniel is typing their reply…

11:31
Uhhhh: This is dark…

11:31
Avatar Dan Szymborski: The lyrics it makes tend to turn out really dark

11:31
Soto leg sweep crotch grab: What is the lowest strike out total for a game this post season?

11:31
Avatar Dan Szymborski: We have to be near it

11:31
Dystopian Future: Davey Martinez has still not been ejected, so I consider today pretty good.

11:32
Avatar Dan Szymborski: From Nitkowski

11:32
Avatar Dan Szymborski:

11:32
Zekeydude:

11:32
EarlWeaverJr: Joe Smith played a lot of wiffleball growing up.

11:32
Dystopian Future: Kiley is responding to himself what

11:32
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: okay it’s done, go back there and read it

11:32
Avatar Dan Szymborski:

That called 3rd strike to Correa was not only the furthest inside strike Jim Wolf called tonight, it may have been the most inside pitch to a right-handed hitter he’s called a strike all year.

This is his last 500 called strikes in 2019…

31 Oct 2019
11:32
Jeremy: Nats should protest the game just to be on the safe side. Worked last night.

11:33
Avatar David Laurila: Of note, Tyler Kepner of the New York Times recently wrote a good article on Sam Mondry-Cohen, the Nationals assistant GM and lead analytics guy.

11:33
GerryLikeGary: Really thought Kiley was messing with us

11:33
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: I can be earnest sometimes

11:33
Guy Smiley: Okay, we get it: Talk to transformer is funny.

11:35
Appa Yip Yip: Believing in people is never not worthy of notice.

11:37
Avatar Dan Szymborski: We’re getting to the point at which Fernando Rodney can close.

11:37
Hire Joe Morgan?: Anna Kendrick for MVP!

11:37
CJ: Really, WHERE IS COLE??

11:37
LFC Mike: These games the Nats win have a certain pattern

11:37
Wire Fan: Eaton should have tried a homicidal squeeze bunt there.

11:38
Brian CashGod : Kiley’s story is really wholesome, thank you

11:38
Cole’s Law: Help. I’m falling asleep and chatting seems to have gone away!!!

11:38
Avatar David Laurila: Nope.

11:39
Mike D.: you can take down the plastic in the houston club house

11:39
Lightning Rodney: agree with urquidy over cole? what are you saving him for?

11:39
Byron Buxton : This might be over. It’s an even number lead

11:39
Yuppi: Don’t do that to me Dan

11:40
LT: Something like 99% WE now right?

11:40
Adam Eaton apples in the garden: I wonder if Taubman is still loudly glad he got Osuna.

11:40
Fire Ken Tremendous: They finally got Rendon out

11:40
ben: 99.1% according to ESPN

11:40
Avatar Dan Szymborski: We gave 99.0%

11:41
LT: OMG are they really going to pitch to Soto?

11:41
LFC Mike: Where does the Astro champagne stash go?

11:41
Avatar Dan Szymborski: adult soup kitchen

11:41
EarlWeaverJr: Maybe Cole was never really available and he was just throwing a few pitches to scramble the Nats’ brains a little.

11:41
Dan: Just short of 99% at statcast

11:41
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: exactly 99% on FG

11:41
Jeff: So what’s the lowest tier school an MLB team will hire a GM or higher from these days? Baseball’s basically rocket science so I imagine…um…iunno…Brown? I doubt they’d stoop so low but I’m out of touch with the universities

11:41
Avatar David Laurila: Amherst has a low enrollment and has produced multiple GMs.

11:42
Avatar Kiley McDaniel:

11:43
bananas: Brian O’Hallaran went to Colby

11:43
Avatar Dan Szymborski:

11:43
Cole’s Law: Dan. Kiley and David. Thanks for being our tour guides tonight. I’m giving up on tonight. Someone call me if it gets interesting 867 5309. Thanks.

11:43
John Jaso Jingle Heimer Schmidt: I grabbed a milk carton and saw a picture of Gerrit Cole.

11:45
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Last one from me!

11:45
Avatar Dan Szymborski:

11:45
Avatar David Laurila: Bryce Harper hit 35 home runs this year.

11:45
The Hamburglar: Dancing in the Moonlight? Really?

11:46
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Amoani, no way on that one!

11:46
TKDC: I’m already hearing fireworks outside my house in DC.

11:46
eminor3rd: Zim — will tonight’s World Series game 7 be overshadowed by the news that Alcides Escobar signed with NPB’s Yakult Swallows for the entire news cycle?

11:46
The One: Is it just be, or have the Astros seemed nervous ever since the game started?

11:46
Avatar Dan Szymborski: I don’t get that impression

11:47
Juan Soto’s first legal vacation: I will improbably be a full pitcher of Malort.

11:47
Morgan C : I would just like to say that I’ve been thoroughly delighted by the slugs for each of these WS Game chats written by Meg Rowley!

11:47
Zekeydude: Get ready to play Baby Shark all night long.

11:47
Morgan C : “This game is for all the marbles; this chat is for the passing the time.”

11:47
Amoanipupas: Where will this rank in terms of World Series underdog upsets?

11:47
jonnyzuck: strasburg or soto MVP? I go soto

11:47
Avatar Dan Szymborski: I don’t think it’s a gargantuan upset

11:48
Appa Yip Yip: Omfg is Hudson closing it out? What a year for that guy. Signed to a minor league deal in spring training and cut by the Angels. Signed by a pitching starved Blue Jays team. He pitched his ass off and earned a midseason trade to a contender, continued to pitch his ass off. Was in the middle of a dumb controversy as to whether fathers should be present at the birth of their own children. Now closing out game 7 of the world series.

11:48
EarlWeaverJr: I’m so happy for the Expos and Senators

11:48
Avatar David Laurila: The Montreal Expos were 74-40 when the 1994 season ended prematurely.

11:49
LFC Mike: Before this game ends thanks to all at Fan Graphs  for the great work done this baseball season and for making these chats so much fun. Very much appreciated.. and also to those that participated in the chats.

11:49
Sonny: I hope there is a parade in Montreal and Pedro is there and it’s just goofy

11:49
Jordan: Even lead, games over

11:49
Zekeydude: FanGraphs has become my favorite website throughout this season.

11:50
Jeff: Yes, thank you FanGraphs please never talk about $/WAR as anything but a joke or something to be mocked and scorned

11:50
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Before the flood, I just want to say thanks to all of you for joining us for the 2019 season. Just on my behalf, I want to thank you all for welcoming me to FanGraphs over the last 18 months. There’s lots more content to come and I’m excited to see you guys journey with us!

11:50
jj:

11:50
Avatar Dan Szymborski: lol

11:50
Avatar Dan Szymborski: AND THAT IS IT

11:50
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: I mean the smartest teams tell us they use $/WAR as a baseline the same way we do so I’m not sure what to tell you

11:51
John Jaso Jingle Heimer Schmidt: You guys rock! Thanks for making baseball more fun and chatting with us.

11:51
Dan: NATS!!!!!

11:51
Selectchrl: just say things to make Carson embarrassed like the good old days

11:51
Amoanipupas: I love Fangraphs (but miss Carson, NotGraphs and Dayn Perry on the pod.) But thanks a ton for the insights all season long guys and gals.

11:51
Zekeydude: Bye, my fellow baseball nerds.

11:51
Buccpocalypse: The Washington Nationals just won a World Series in which they never had a lead in a game at home

11:51
Scrubladder: Win expectancy = 100%

11:51
Wire Fan: Thanks guys!

11:52
Guy Smiley: How funny would it be for the Blue Jays to win the WS and see Carson run out into the scrum?

11:52
5 Run Homer: and I love you, FanGraphs

11:52
5 Run Homer: I love you, baseball

11:52
Sincerely: THANKS EVERYONE!

11:52
Sonny: more long interviews David! Love hearing players dive into details

11:52
Avatar Kiley McDaniel: Kiley is out. Happy to come in for the 4 inning save.

11:52
DCSTL: “People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.” -Rogers Hornsby

11:53
bananas: who is the first fangraphs alum to get a WS ring?

11:53
The One: And the seven month breath that is baseball is finally released. See you all in March.

11:53
Zekeydude: See you February 21, baseball. :((((((((

11:54
jonnyzuck: aaron barrett is on the field celebrating after all he’s been through which is cool

11:54
Amoanipupas: Astros public relations office drafting a statement right now. “Well the Nationals have their opinion of the events and we have ours. we believe the story that they won the World Series to be completely fabricated but the full truth may never be known. “

11:55
Zekeydude: The Nats only lost one away game in the entire Postseason.

11:55
Avatar David Laurila: Antithesis of the 1987 Twins.

11:56
Avatar David Laurila: Thanks for chatting, all. Stay tuned for plenty of offseason content.

11:57
Avatar Dan Szymborski: OK, time to shut this bad boy down.





Meg is the managing editor of FanGraphs and the co-host of Effectively Wild. Prior to joining FanGraphs, her work appeared at Baseball Prospectus, Lookout Landing, and Just A Bit Outside. You can follow her on twitter @megrowler.

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tz
4 years ago

Congratulations Nats!!!