MLBTR Chat Transcript: 11/25/19

It was about how many questions they get asked in each chat. He didn’t really give you a knowledgeable answer but I have heard before it can be around 1,500. It makes me feel bad about the times I complained so I try not to do that anymore. It’s not that I truly mind when my questions don’t get answered though. I used to just get irritated when I would ask at least ten legitimate questions that never get answered because of 30 questions that are something like: “Will Kris Bryant be traded for Mookie Betts?” Or something like that. It only bothers me a little sometimes because there are so many of them answered and everyone knows that none of those proposals even have close to a 1% chance of happening. I would prefer to know MLBTR’s opinions on things that might actually happen. My questions don’t usually involve trades of big names but focus on things that could actually happen or just happened. I wanted to know their take on the Darren O’Day signing because I was shocked it happened considering his 37+ year age and recent terrible injury history. Or what anyone thinks might happen with former blockbuster trade participant and former star Shelby Miller. I also ask a lot about the computerized strike zone because now even former star pitchers like CC Sabathia have come out in favor of it and it made me wonder if it had gained more traction and might actually happen soon as a result. I find that kind of stuff (along with CBA, rule changes and a potential NL DH) way more interesting then hypothesizing about very specific trades that will never happen several dozen times in a row. I have to cut them a break though. They get a ton of questions and can’t possibly even read all of them, much less answer all of them. I am also still kinda pumped about that Braves payroll article I pointed out to Jeff and he took the time to listen and research it and Dylan actually wrote a really good article about it. My elderly Dad was so excited when I showed him because he is the one that informed me of the interview so he knew he was kind of a big part of it. He is an awesome guy. He took me to so many Braves World Series games when I was a kid I can’t even keep count, so it was so awesome just to see a smile on his face.
P.S.
I don’t know if you read the Atlanta Journal Constitution or not but a couple of days after the Braves payroll interview post got put on MLBTR they printed a very similar article about the exact same thing in the AJC newspaper. I already knew that the AJC writers write a lot of articles based on Braves posts they read on MLBTR (since MLBTR is usually the first to break news) so I looked up the source of the article. It even had a similar name as the MLBTR article with the quote “spend some money” in the title. AJC used MLBTR as a reference along with CNBC. CNBC had reported it like 5 days earlier and AJC printed the article less than 48 hours after MLBTR posted it. My Dad gets the AJC at his house and I tried to explain to him that the source meant that the article likely wouldn’t be in the newspaper he was holding in his hand if he hadn’t told me about the interview in the first place. He smiled but I don’t think he believed me at all. I was able to prove to him that I was the one that got the article pointed out for MLBTR so he knew that was true. I think he just thinks MLBTR is some random website and doesn’t realize how big it is because that seemed cool but very possible to him. The idea that it was in the AJC because of him was to big of a deal to be possible. It was funny though. I wish I could prove that to him somehow. He still thinks printed newspapers are the best source of breaking news and the internet is just something kids play around with or something. Either way, the whole ordeal made his day, which means it made my week.