Dan Szymborski FanGraphs Chat – 7/24/25

Dan Szymborski: I’m right here, sorry, acquired caught up in Hulk Hogan information!

Justin: Hello Dan, what’s it about somebody like Brandon Marsh that enables him to persistently have a excessive BABIP?

Dan Szymborski: Solidly above common velocity, whereas he’s not a grounder machine, he hits quite a lot of *laborious* grounders

Mitchell: Appears each article on deadline commerce candidates consists of Ryan McMahon. I get the man packs a great glove, however he hits like a second division 2nd baseman, and that’s taking part in half his video games in Denver. Why do we predict he’s a fascinating asset for a workforce attempting to win?

Dan Szymborski: Theres’ the hope he acquired his crap collectively after an AWFUL April. He’s truly been strong since

Ryan: What decrease degree prospects are you intrigued by who nobody is speaking about?

Dan Szymborski: I’m undecided you may actually name him a prospect, however I’m sort of stunned the Royals confirmed so little curiosity in Cam Devanney, who principally has had the identical profession arc as Whit Merrifield did.

Dan Szymborski: and to not even take a look at him vital earlier than buying and selling him for *Adam Frazier*?

bringbackpologrounds: If (when) Eugenio Suarez joins the 400 HR membership, the place would he rank out of the roughly 60 members? He’s had a beautiful profession, hopefully he retains up the mashing.

Dan Szymborski: He’d positively be fairly low. 46 of the 59 400-HR guys have 50 WAR and he would have laborious time getting there

Lowe Distribution System: In your prospect evaluation article, it appears to be like like a robust majority  had their projections worsen because the begin of the season.  Is that simply because we’re trying on the prospects who began with the perfect projections so in fact it’s simpler for them to say no than enhance?

Dan Szymborski: The largest a part of it’s that the highest 100 of the ZiPS prospect record has simply had a very dangerous 12 months!

Dan Szymborski: There have been considerably extra improvers than decliners within the 101-200 tranche

And I look to discover a purpose to consider: Who’re your 1-3 White Sox gamers who’ve improved their future fWAR ZIPS projections since preseason, and do you’ve any elevated optimism for enchancment based mostly on 2025 progress over hopefully reaching absolutely the backside of the barrel in. 2024.

Dan Szymborski: Properly, Shane Smith for one

Dan Szymborski: He’s in all probability my largest one

ransofast: have you ever tried the progressive new variations of Skyline chili? Notably the Skyline dip or breakfast chilitos?

Dan Szymborski: There are progressive new methods to get hit within the groin with a ball, however that doesn’t imply I need to strive these both

Mi Nombre: The Brewers have gained at the very least 86 video games (.531 W%) each full season since 2017 for a cumulative .557 W% over 1,195 video games from 2017-24. To date this 12 months they’ve an MLB finest .598 W%. Playoff Odds sees them as a .513 W% workforce remainder of season. Does ZiPS have a rosier outlook? The place would your human mind pc estimate their remainder of season W%?

Dan Szymborski: ZiPS is rosier, however has nonetheless missed low final a number of years. The bizarre factor is that the person participant projections aren’t truly undershooting the Brewers as a bunch. It *my* mind that’s screwing up; they merely do a greater job getting their finest performers on the sector than I expec tthem to

Tampa Fred: As I perceive it the distinction between bWAR and fWAR for P is that the previous makes use of ERA and the later makes use of FIP. Might you record one optimistic and one destructive for every calculation? Has there ever been any try and get the 2 organizations to agree upon its calculation?

Dan Szymborski: Properly, they’re each good measures, however they each have related misses, made within the curiosity of interpretability.

Dan Szymborski: bwar *over*describes pitcher contributions as for simplicity, it has a really naive utility of workforce defensive efficiency to particular person pitchers

Dan Szymborski: whereas fwar *beneath*describes by eliminating BIP, which whereas very small, nonetheless has *some* worth

Dan Szymborski: and these tradeoffs aren’t made with out purpose, however to maintain what WAR measures are saying simpler to grasp

Dan Szymborski: I don’t suppose you’ll see a compromise

Jeff: Which, if any, of the Statcast period stats have modified the way you do your projections?

Dan Szymborski: There’s quite a lot of statcast knowledge in ZiPS, and there was for aquite some time!

Dan Szymborski: Although I’m gradual to combine new issues till I *know* how their use improves a mannequin

Dan Szymborski: and I’m a stickler for getting new, actual knowledge examined, not simply counting on stuff like cross-validation

James: Is the Astros present injured record a greater roster than Colorado?

Dan Szymborski: The highest-end expertise certain, however the again of the injured roster can be very shallow should you performed a really bizarre theoretical season

Mi Nombre: NL rookies as a complete have produced 5.3 WAR (place gamers) and three.9 rWAR (pitchers).

Dan Szymborski: Good catch, I haven’t checked on that at ALL

Dan Szymborski: League-wide, the distinction is critical

Dan Szymborski: MLB hitter rookie WAR 2023: 67.6. 2024: 49.0

Dan Szymborski: This 12 months: 16!

Dan Szymborski: Pitcher rookie WAR 2023: 46.4

Dan Szymborski: pitcher rookie WAR 2024: 60.8

Dan Szymborski: pitcher rookie WAR 2025: 13.3

Lowe Distribution System: How does ZiPS undertaking W/L for pitchers?  Tons of issues exterior the pitcher’s efficiency make substantial variations.  Does it find out about run help?  Bullpen high quality?  Whether or not the pitcher goes deep into video games?

Dan Szymborski: Does knwo all this stuff!

SeanP: Should you had been Mike Elias, would you promote excessive on Trevor Rogers? Or preserve him within the hopes of re-tooling for subsequent season?

Dan Szymborski: IF the package deal is excessive sufficient

Dan Szymborski: I don’t suppose I’d commerce him although. I believe the O’s want any pitching they’ll get, and I can’t think about somebody would give them somebody *higher* for 2026 than Rogers woudl be

Visitor: Two extra house runs for Spencer Jones at present. I had written him off final 12 months due to the strikeouts. What does ZiPS suppose now?

Dan Szymborski: Take a look at the ZiPS prospect replace article!

HiDan: is the software program growth life cycle for  ZIPS a formalized course of or are you flying principally by the seat of your pants? I think about because you’ve been doing it for thus lengthy you’ve an excellent thought of how lengthy sure steps of creating/testing/deploying ZIPS takes, however I’m curious you probably have some layer of undertaking administration over it

Dan Szymborski: Oh, we’re full chaotic

Dan Szymborski: I don’t have competent administration over “any” facet of my life

Dan Szymborski: As I have to remind you all, there’s a line in my hallway close to the kitchen had been I used to be going to complete portray…17 years in the past

Dan Szymborski: My giant basement workplace has a really “Leslie Knope’s home” really feel

Lowe Distribution System: Will anybody the Orioles purchase after they promote on the deadline contribute 0.5 WAR for them in 2026?  2027?  In different phrases, can they purchase anybody who will assist them win within the Gunnar/Adley period?

Dan Szymborski: I believe it’s very potential

Bruce Boisclair, Jr.: The brand new guidelines have introduced again base stealing, however the pitchout hasn’t returned. Why is that?

Dan Szymborski: The issue is that the mathematics nonetheless doesn’t work nice

Dan Szymborski: Until you’re AMAZING at predicting when guys truly run

Dan Szymborski: Final I checked, MLB, was round 20% in pitchouts truly having an tried stolen bae

Dan Szymborski: So 80% of the time, except Jeff Francoeur is batting, you’re including a ball to a rely

Dan Szymborski: Which is definitely a fairly large deal

Dan Szymborski: turning a base stolen *into* a caught stealing is about 0.6 runs

Dan Szymborski: And the pitchout CS is nearer to 50% usually, not 100%

HiDan: which cat has the perfect likelihood of carrying the ZIPS torch ahead should you had been hit by a bus?

Dan Szymborski: Justinian since he’s essentially the most acquainted with my PC

Sharp: Is Ozzie Albies cooked? He makes horrible swing choices. I don’t know what the Braves ought to do about him.

Dan Szymborski: I wouldn’t say cooked, however he’s trying par-boiled

Idiotic Failson: Who might hit a baseball additional, Hulk or the Final Warrior?

Dan Szymborski: Final Warrior

Dan Szymborski: however he’d get winded by the point he acquired to first

The Oriole Chook: How optimistic are you (or ZiPS) about Rutschman post-IL stint?

Dan Szymborski: decently so

Bob Myick: ZIPs made a fairly good name on Brett Baty’s worth this season. What do you suppose he’s going ahead? A helpful man on a great workforce/starter on a foul workforce? Can he be greater than that?

Dan Szymborski: I believe he’s what he’s. A good starter for some time, however not somebody who’s foundational to the workforce, and also you wouldn’t thoughts transferring him if one thing higher comes alongside

War2d2: On the nationwide broadcast final week Adam Wainwright was extolling the virtues of Mitch Keller, calling him an ace and saying that anybody that will get him on the commerce deadline can be getting a high of the rotation starter. My query: has Wainwright had an aneurism, and may his household intervene?

Dan Szymborski: I imply, it’s not QUITE as loopy because it appears

Dan Szymborski: Chris Jaffe discovered some years in the past that traditionally, the standard ace had an ERA+ of about 125, IIRC.

Dan Szymborski: and Keller’s at 121 proper now!

Dan Szymborski: Now, he doesn’t have a 125 ERA+ *projection* going ahead

Dan Szymborski: nevertheless it’s not like he known as Andre Pallante an ace or one thing

Satan Ray Jay Johnson: What would the Rays’ finest deadline transfer be?

Dan Szymborski: New proprietor Patrick Zalupski is authorised by house owners after which he rips off his face masks and it’s Mark Cuban and he declares that HE’S right here to spend cash and chew gum and he’s all out of gum

Lowe Distribution System: Anybody gonna commerce for Chris Sale?  Needs to be again in time for playoffs, potential playoff difference-maker

Dan Szymborski: I believe no

L: I’ve been considering this for a couple of years, however Sasaki falling flat on his face confirmed it for me: Dodgers pitching growth is extremely overrated proper now. Most of their finest pitchers at this level had been wholly developed by different groups. Their supposed specialty, fixing up random low-cost scrubs? Each competent workforce is doing that now. Some groups, just like the Padres and the Mets, are even efficiently turning them into front-line starters. In the meantime, the Dodgers have been doing the literal reverse, taking costly dudes like Scott or Yates and breaking them. They’ve been having hassle fixing their very own developed pitchers too (Miller, Could, Gonsolin), which is definitely a fairly large drawback, since none of them have had sustained success. Probably the most irritating half is that the Dodgers are absolutely conscious that they’ve fallen behind. Why else would they spend a lot on pitching?

Dan Szymborski: I dunno if *Sasaki* confirms it. They didn’t actually *develop* him in any case, and he’s injured too

bam bam: Sebastian Walcott greater than doubled his 5-year WAR projection within the new top-100 replace. Have his new Okay-BB% numbers modified how ZiPS views his profile as a hitter, or does it appear extra prefer it’s simply one other years value of above common manufacturing at AA placing weight on the dimensions?

Dan Szymborski: ZiPS will get quite a bit much less scared as soon as guys cross the A-AA barrier, which traditionally appears to be the largest hurdle

Cat Latos: How do my cat mates do?

Cat Latos: (I noticed you missed me the opposite week)

Dan Szymborski: Final I used to be upstairs grabbing one thing to drink (about 11:15), Cassiopeia was sleeping within the excessive perch of the cat tree, Constantine was sleeping on a blanket that was ignored on the sofa, and Mercutio was staring on the empty dry meals bowl within the kitchen in meatloaf mode, unable to understand why he didn’t see the factor he needed.

Dan Szymborski: Justinian’s on my lap in the meanwhile

Dan Szymborski: or extra exactly, half on my left desk and half on my left leg whereas my keyboard is balanced throughout my proper leg and my proper desk

Dan Szymborski: (I sit in a recliner parallel to 2 desks)

Look At This Sotograph: Does ZIPS consider issues like pulled fly balls, that we all know could make xwOBA underrate a hitter?

Dan Szymborski: sure. pull/spray tendencies are in there in ZiPS

Dan Szymborski: and I even have dynamic park components based mostly on pull/spray tendencies, which is why Isaac Paredes all the time will get a a lot better projection than his peripherals take into consideration him

I’m the Apple: How do you see the connection between public-facing analytics (like at FanGraphs) and the proprietary work being performed inside MLB entrance workplaces? Is the general public catching up, or is the knowledge hole widening?

Dan Szymborski: It’s…difficult

Dan Szymborski: I believe the general public will get quite a lot of issues unsuitable about how groups use knowledge

Dan Szymborski: the general public appears to suppose that groups spend quite a lot of time doing stuff like their “personal” WAR or different regular efficiency metrics

Dan Szymborski: The sting that particular person groups have is that they’ve particular entry to their very own gamers, and many *micro*degree methods to guage the expertise

Dan Szymborski: Any sort of knowledge that the entire league can use, everyone goes to knwo about and everyone goes to get to make use of, in the end

Jeremy: For the way lengthy, and by how a lot, would the Brewers must persistently beat their projections earlier than you’d think about it a systemic error on the a part of the projection system? Proof that the Brewers have some secret sauce that the projections don’t account for? In spite of everything, should you had been to replay (say) 7 consecutive seasons one million instances, I’m guessing that in some respectable fraction of these million replays there’d be a workforce that beats its projected win whole 7 consecutive instances.

Dan Szymborski: As I famous above, I believe the issue with the ZiPS projections has been the Dan half the place I’ve to find out who performs reasonably than the ZiPS half

Dan Szymborski: which isn’t tremendous suprising as a result of ZiPS is fairly good and Dan is fairly dumb

I’m the Apple: Which participant in historical past do you most want you could possibly see their Statcast outputs?

Dan Szymborski: I need to see these Babe Ruth exit velocities

Dan Szymborski: or get some pitch knowledge on a spitballer

Dan Szymborski: perhaps Burleigh Grimes is the reply

Bob Myrick: Are you aware particularly how the Mets have prompted the pitching velocity within the minors to spike a lot this 12 months? Are these strategies recognized to everyone and a few orgs are simply higher at instructing them?

Dan Szymborski: *That* is one thing I do *not* know

Bob Myrick: How a lot would you provide to the Padres for Stop should you had been a workforce with a practical likelihood at a World Sequence this 12 months? Ought to the Mets be giving up 4.5 years of Mark Vientos for him?

Dan Szymborski: That may be powerful for me as a rental

Look At This Sotograph: The Orioles’ entrance workplace hates buying and selling it’s younger guys, but additionally hates locking them up in offers. What’s happening right here?

Dan Szymborski: Conservatism

Jeremy: Re: not simply counting on cross-validation, why not? I believe I do know the reply, however I’m not 100% certain.

Dan Szymborski: A number of causes. One is simply my extreme conservatism.

Dan Szymborski: And perhaps not extreme – the achieve from a marginal enchancment of ZiPS is way smaller than the implications of breaking ZiPS

Dan Szymborski: But in addition, cross-validation of an older mannequin assumes that issues that *are* true over a sure time interval might stay so

Dan Szymborski: resembling baseball development

Dan Szymborski: The one exception actually is 2021 projections, the place I principally HAD to guess the implications of 2020,

Ross: Nate Dohm, Yoniel Curet, Joe Mack

Dan Szymborski: Gonna say mac, Curet, dohm

Michael Jones: What’s it concerning the projections programs I’m seeing that don’t simply have the Braves as what they’re presently, a very washed workforce that stinks for the remainder of this season.  Clearly no system has them making the playoffs, however principally all I see have them taking part in at or above .500 baseball the remainder of this season and this workforce is horrific with utterly damaged gamers and a pitching workers that’s all harm.  What am I lacking?

Dan Szymborski: That nothing is as dangerous because it appears to be like when issues are going dangerous or vice versa

Dan Szymborski: We all the time have issues like this

Dan Szymborski: After 2024, when projections thought the Blue Jays woudl bounce again, the query was why didn’t projection programs know the Jays had been damaged

Dan Szymborski: Coming into 2024 it was why didn’t projection programs know the Yankees and Mets and Cardinals had been damaged

Dan Szymborski: The factor is, recentism is VERY laborious for folks to keep away from, even critical followers

War2d2: What does ZIPS consider Matt Shaw for the remainder of the season? He was so dangerous for some time there, however is on a heater proper now. Should you had been in Jed’s footwear would you belief that sufficient to surrender on attempting for Suarez and as an alternative put all of your prospect eggs in a Joe Ryan-shaped basket?

Dan Szymborski: A little bit of a bounceback, however I wouldn’t have hassle buying and selling for Suarez and having much less Shaw this 12 months

Michael Jones: Is Michael Harris cooked long run?

Dan Szymborski: That’s a fairly fast prognosis for a *24* 12 months outdated who has had three excellent seasons within the majros prior to now

Key Flaw: You’re given supreme energy and might change the title of 1 workforce within the AL and one within the NL to something you need. Do you go foolish, historic, higher, trollish? Which of them do you modify and to what?

Dan Szymborski: You guys ought to know me, I am going trollish

Dan Szymborski: I don’t know WHICH trollishness I’d do although

Dan Szymborski: Now non trollishness, I’d actually need to change the Rays

Dan Szymborski: I believe they made so many poor decisions. When you’ve the selection between the DEVILS a part of your title and the RAYS OF SUNSHINE a part of your title, the previous has far more enjoyable potential than the opposite

Dan Szymborski: however right here’s the factor, if you go together with the solar as your title

Dan Szymborski: go for the RED GIANT model of the solar, that’s going to boil off the planet’s oceans and finally kill every thing remaining

Dan Szymborski: not the laidback sun shades and mojito solar

Dan Szymborski: the Phoenix Suns have a FAR extra threatening solar than the Rays do. The Rays simply have that little twinkles

Gilberto: Within the 400 HR membership, Eugenio Suarezz would at the very least price increased than Dave Kingman.

Dan Szymborski: the 400 HR membership guys beneath 50 WAR are Jason Giambi, Ruy Teixeira, Carlos Delgado, Giancarlo Stanton, Jose Canseco, Nelson Cruz, Alfonso Soriano, Juan Gonzalez, Edwin Encarnacion who I completely forgot was within the membership, Adam Dunn, Paul Konerko, and Dave Kingman

Dan Szymborski: errr MARK Teixeira

Dan Szymborski:

Key Flaw: Maryland comfort retailer questions: Rising up in MD I all the time had Highs and 7-11 and sometimes Wawa, however Royal Farms was actually one thing close to me. So my questions for you’re: 1)What comfort shops did you’ve rising up?, 2) What’s your go-to MD comfort retailer, and three) Can Royal Farms please cease their makes an attempt at making RoFo occur? It could be RoFa anyway, however nobody says it and it clearly is a advertising gimmick dreamed up by executives attempting to be hip.

Dan Szymborski: I lived off Kenilworth drive close to the mall there, so the closest comfort shops to me had been the 7-11 at Bellona and York subsequent to Ocean Pleasure and Kim’s Karate and the Royal Farms on Thornton Street (close to Stoneleigh Elementary). So these are the 2 I went to essentially the most

Dan Szymborski: And once I’m in Baltimore, I’m at Royal Farms as a rule

Dan Szymborski: I didn’t know that RoFo was a factor and I want I hadn’t

Dan Szymborski: I’ve little or no Excessive’s expertise

Dan Szymborski: there was once one in the identical purchasing heart as China Moon on Ridgely however that one I don’t suppose has been there for 30 years

Dan Szymborski: I nonetheless get meals from China Moon each time I’m on the town. Finest fried rice wherever.

Dan Szymborski: It is a lot of very particular north suburb Baltimore discuss, so I hope SOMEONE right here is from or in Baltimore

kwabbit: Talking of Mitch Keller, his finest season by xERA was 2019 (3.51), wherein he realized a 7.13 ERA and a .475 BABIP towards over 11 begins. Must be one of many unluckiest stretches in latest historical past.

Dan Szymborski: Yeah, it’s bizarre to nonetheless have to notice to folks generally “Hey, you understand, a .475 BABIP isn’t a factor for a pitcher”

Visitor: might you do very crude pre-statcast ev estimates from grainy video, or would they be too crude to say something (Joe Carter hit that ball wherever from 91 to 121 mph!)

Dan Szymborski: It wuld be fairly dangerous

Key Flaw: In honor of Hulk Hogan, once I was a child I beloved Randy Savage and will do a crappy impression of him (I might by no means get a Hulk Hogan impression down). Should you had been give the power to do a spot on impression of any professional wrestler, who would it not be?

Dan Szymborski: Oh, I’m certain I might do the entire Bret Hart routine. I even can do the mechanics of the Sharpshooter

wheelhouse: A 3rd spencer jones house run has hit the constructing

Oddball Herrera: Sheesh, now Jones is at three house runs.  Is he actually that a lot completely different from an OF model of Elly De La Cruz?

Bob Loblaw: Did you ever do a time warp for Babe Ruth if the league was built-in?

Dan Szymborski: I haven’t. To do one thing like this, I’d must calculate a complete lot of issues which are a bit awkward

Dan Szymborski: True story, which I believe I can say since not one of the persons are there anymore, however whereas I used to be at ESPN, we had a bunch thought pitched to me to guess the impact on data if the league had been built-in

Dan Szymborski: and I seemed into it and had the terrible realization and got here again and stated

Dan Szymborski: (and the impact on data if the leagues had been *by no means* built-in)

Dan Szymborski: I identified that there have been some actual issues that even when effectively which means for instance how a lot better the league is with everybody attending to play

Dan Szymborski: together with, however positively not restricted to determining which latino gamers at present would have “handed” within the coloration line period. All of us agreed that even when the thought was attention-grabbing, it was too laborious to do with something approaching correct sensitivity

Visitor: reds vs giants in the course of the purple large part

Insert Witty Title Right here: Give us the weirdest story you’ve heard concerning the trade, whether or not or not you consider it to be true or not. Redact names if mandatory

Dan Szymborski: oh lord, I’m actually going to must neutralize this one

Dan Szymborski: Let’s simply say I used to be at a dinner with a bunch of individuals together with a former government and stated former government acquired *actually* drunk and instructed a narrative that their workforce had a man in Cuba who was attempting to assist get gamers out of Cuba and was caught and in jail in Cuba for a 12 months and no one in media ever discovered that occurred

War2d2: Additionally concerning the Rays: my feeling on baseball logos is that if a baseball-obsessed 9 12 months outdated can’t draw your emblem from reminiscence, you want a brand new emblem.

Dan Szymborski: I’m not likely a fan of the Guardians 3D ish emblem

Dan Szymborski: as a result of as I stated earlier than, it appears to be like like an enemy in Marble Insanity

Visitor: you needed the miserable/indignant model of the solar for TB, sadly Gemini is refusing to generate a picture of what the mascot for the Tampa Bay Melanomas would seem like

Visitor: Wawa is invading Maryland, care to remark?

Dan Szymborski: I’m not *that* upset becuase there have been all the time *some* Wawas

Dan Szymborski: I’m fairly certain it’s there any extra, however even within the 90s, there was a Wawa on Falls Street close to Lake Avenue

Dan Szymborski: and Royal Farms isn’t actually a *sub* place

Dan Szymborski: it’s extra a Wawa vs. Sheetz battle.

Dan Szymborski: I often acquired subs from Bubba’s Breakaway, on York highway nearly throughout from Carver

Dan Szymborski: Thats’ gone now although

André René Roussimoff,: The factor to recollect about Sasaki and all thrilling younger Japanese pitchers is that their arms get completely brutalized in youth baseball. He threw 425 pitches in a single eight-day stretch as a child. Till that tradition modifications, I believe a number of the blokes who make the soar can be disappointing and/or injured.

War2d2: Talking of time warp: I’ve lengthy had a principle that any true star might be moved to any period and nonetheless be a star. Eg, should you took 16yo Rickey Henderson and introduced him to 2015 and put him via journey ball and whatnot he’d nonetheless be a 9 WAR participant in 2025. Unsure that’s related, however curious should you’d agree. Like would Jinmy Foxx nonetheless be a beast? Babe Ruth? The place’s the cutoff for when a star wouldn’t be a star due to bodily limitations?

Dan Szymborski: I’ve truly been kinda saving a few of the Time Warp concepts for the 2026-2027 offseason…

Bob Loblaw: With out trying it up, who led the MLB in homers for the 2010s?

Dan Szymborski: Now THAT I do know is Nelson Cruz, since I’ve seemed that up earlier than

Dan Szymborski: (and now in fact, somebody will discover that to be incorrect, as a result of that’s how life rolls generally)

Key Flaw: Once more on names/logos, however I believe it’s fairly clear that some names just like the Pink Sox, White Sox, Reds, Phillies, are simply actually crappy names that we settle for as regular as a result of custom. Identical with the Mets. Some names are simply bathroom customary just like the Tigers, Cardinals. They’re nonetheless higher than the contrived minor league names or the NBA and WNBA makes an attempt at idea names. We all know you aren’t a fan of the Rays title, however which title that most individuals like do you suppose is crappy? Sizzling taek!

Dan Szymborski: Individuals complain concerning the Utah Jazz title

Dan Szymborski: however I friggin find it irresistible as a result of it’s completely AMAZING that they moved to Utah and saved the title

Dan Szymborski: I want school groups would relocate and never change their names. The North Dakota Hoosiers! The Wyoming Gators! The Boston Faculty Ragin’ Cajuns!

SeanP: Ex-Baltimoron right here, having fun with your particular suburb ramblings.

Phil: “Mets” is an effective title, as a result of it nods towards the museum and the opera. As a Pink Sox fan, I agree that “Pink Sox” is dumb, and I hate when folks use it as singular (“He’s a Pink Sox”).

Phil: Dodgers are good in that regard additionally. No trolleys in LA!

Dan Szymborski: On that be aware, time for me to hit the ol’ dusty path

Dan Szymborski: Thanks for coming all! Unsure if there can be a chat subsequent week given there can be quite a lot of chaos and I’ll in all probability be writing different stuff

Dan Szymborski: However let’s be sincere, no one needs to be caught listening to me EVERY week