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Dan Szymborski @dszymborski.fangraphs.com · 05/10/2026

This is a reference to my CPU cooler, which plays the last 10 minutes of Homer at the Bat on a continuous loop.

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Dan Szymborski @dszymborski.fangraphs.com · 05/10/2026

It's especially annoying when playing MLB the Show because he tries to hit the baseballs for me.

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Dan Szymborski @dszymborski.fangraphs.com · 05/10/2026

Soon, I will no longer have to remember stuff like how to find my mid-2023 pitch clock data.

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Dan Szymborski @dszymborski.fangraphs.com · 05/10/2026

My current ongoing project is to go through thousands of spreadsheets and database on my computer and try and make sure they're actually named in a fashion that tells me what they are. I'm down to less than a single screen of confusing Book____ names!

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Dan Szymborski @dszymborski.fangraphs.com · 05/10/2026

Also, I keep a database of band genres and classical movement names so that I can ensure I name any album I rip into my collection perfectly consistent tags.

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Dan Szymborski @dszymborski.fangraphs.com · 05/10/2026

As long as I'm being confessional, I put together coordinate and play data for the majority of Madden playbooks and their AI in-game categorization in the 2010s.

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Dan Szymborski @dszymborski.fangraphs.com · 05/10/2026

I probably shouldn't be revealing *more* nerdy things, but I have a profile for my game controller that, with button combinations and keybinds, I can type about 20 wpm now using the controller.

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Dan Szymborski @dszymborski.fangraphs.com · 05/10/2026

I have keycaps for A's, Brewers, Astros, Phillies, Orioles, Mariners. Haven't gotten around to doing more. Also have a Darth Vader delete key next to a DO NOT WANT backspace.

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Dan Szymborski @dszymborski.fangraphs.com · 05/10/2026

Since it doesn't look like it's going to make sense to upgrade my GPU for a long time, I need to have a backplate made for the 5070 Ti. I had a great one for the 2080 Super, but that GPU's been gone for a good five years now.

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Dan Szymborski @dszymborski.fangraphs.com · 05/10/2026

I do have the best spacebar around though.

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Dan Szymborski @dszymborski.fangraphs.com · 05/10/2026

My poor Mariners "M" key has really taken a beating, and the trident looks like it has a thyroid problem now. The Brewers key I use for "B" has held up better even though it's the older keycap.

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Dan Szymborski @dszymborski.fangraphs.com · 05/10/2026

I gotta say, most years my fantasy football team sucks, I expect it to suck, and I make moves towards the future accordingly. But this year, I thought my team would be decent, and I'm a good Drake London game from starting 0-4.

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Dan Szymborski @dszymborski.fangraphs.com · 05/10/2026

In the early-mid 90s, my friends and I ordered these about 8,000 times.

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Dan Szymborski @dszymborski.fangraphs.com · 04/10/2026

I love the Miz throwing 105 mph, but I can't get this image out of my head.

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Dan Szymborski @dszymborski.fangraphs.com · 04/10/2026

I CANT FIGURE OUT WHY BATTING AVERAGES ARE LOWER TODAY CAN SOMEONE LET ME KNWO

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Dan Szymborski @dszymborski.fangraphs.com · 03/10/2026

I'm also a fan of signs with weird fractions.

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Dan Szymborski @dszymborski.fangraphs.com · 02/10/2026

I can't believe that NFL SuperPro STILL hasn't been added to the MCU.

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Dan Szymborski @dszymborski.fangraphs.com · 02/10/2026

For some reason, I'm always excited when temperature graphs are like "Ha, fuck the sun!"

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Dan Szymborski @dszymborski.fangraphs.com · 01/10/2026

This remains my favorite out-of-context sentence from a video game of all time.

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Dan Szymborski @dszymborski.fangraphs.com · 01/10/2026

I'm about to get flamed in 3...2....1...

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Dan Szymborski @dszymborski.fangraphs.com · 30/09/2026

FICO 8 seems to be more stable. Is that one used?

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Dan Szymborski @dszymborski.fangraphs.com · 30/09/2026

I know I shouldn't care this much about my precise credit but it just drives me insane how much it bounces up and down with zero substantive changes. Since I do a lot of modeling of things in my job, a model I can't get my head around makes me want to flip over a table.

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Dan Szymborski @dszymborski.fangraphs.com · 30/09/2026

While I avoid AI stuff on BlueSky, I couldn't resist the image.

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Dan Szymborski @dszymborski.fangraphs.com · 28/09/2026

And no, FanGraphs win projections didn't do especially poorly this year. Average miss was smaller than preseason Draft Kings, Caesars, and even ZiPS this time.

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Dan Szymborski @dszymborski.fangraphs.com · 28/09/2026

Bah, was hoping to keep the average ZiPS win miss under seven wins for the third straight year (seven is my line where I'm pleased). Remember, if you know the exact probability of every game beforehand (and we don't obviously), your average miss should be five-point-something wins.

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Dan Szymborski @dszymborski.fangraphs.com · 27/09/2026

Not *quite* hitting submit yet, just in case something very weird happens in the final games.

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Dan Szymborski @dszymborski.fangraphs.com · 25/09/2026

Gotta appreciate this guy who is *really* determined to prove that analytics prefers Rod Carew to Dave Kingman so that he can then judge them poorly for that. (bWAR: Carew 81, Kingman 17 fWAR: Carew 72, Kingman 20)

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Dan Szymborski @dszymborski.fangraphs.com · 24/09/2026

Ah game modding, you're occasionally so important.

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Dan Szymborski @dszymborski.fangraphs.com · 22/09/2026

@brose1don.bsky.social @garik16.bsky.social Do note that if you do any editing, you have to use a hex editor to change the dat.file, I only opened it up in text to show where it was easily.

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Dan Szymborski @dszymborski.fangraphs.com · 22/09/2026

Sometimes, necessity is the mother of invention.

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Dan Szymborski @dszymborski.fangraphs.com · 21/09/2026

I'm quite happy that in Trails Second Chapter, they didn't tone down the drinking contest from the original.

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Dan Szymborski @dszymborski.fangraphs.com · 21/09/2026

It kinda looks like me playing SimCity

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Dan Szymborski @dszymborski.fangraphs.com · 21/09/2026

Dude has so many buttons but he's not hitting any. I wanna know what the eyedropper does

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Dan Szymborski @dszymborski.fangraphs.com · 20/09/2026

I always feel like my forecast is gaslighting me.

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Dan Szymborski @dszymborski.fangraphs.com · 16/09/2026

Looking back at the 2026 Mets ZiPS rundown, this happened? Kinda sorta? Maybe? I stand by the second one. And take THAT ZiPS on the Alonso/Polanco stuff.

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Dan Szymborski @dszymborski.fangraphs.com · 15/09/2026

I appreciate the optimism, Facebook, but I don't know him personally.

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Dan Szymborski @dszymborski.fangraphs.com · 04/09/2026

Drifted back down a little on the full 148 question one.

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Dan Szymborski @dszymborski.fangraphs.com · 04/09/2026

I think I've drifted a little northeast since I took the NY Times one, though I live in Ohio (I'm from Baltimore).

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Dan Szymborski @dszymborski.fangraphs.com · 03/09/2026

- Battleship: You're shooting missiles blindly until you leave no survivors - Jenga: You're slowly undermining the architecture of a building until it collapses - Risk: World domination - Guess Who? Blatant demographic profiling - Crossfire:

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Dan Szymborski @dszymborski.fangraphs.com · 29/08/2026

So in effect, Credit Karma emailed me to congratulate me on my credit score going down.

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Dan Szymborski @dszymborski.fangraphs.com · 28/08/2026

While searching for an old usenet post, I am ashamed to find I actually once wrote out "Hee hee" on the internet.

Old usenet post from 1997 in which Szymborski actually rights out Hee hee.

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Dan Szymborski @dszymborski.fangraphs.com · 26/08/2026

The only good thing about a lockout is I can re-purpose all my tweets from five years ago.

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Dan Szymborski @dszymborski.fangraphs.com · 26/08/2026

The retaliatory AI suggestions are fun.

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Dan Szymborski @dszymborski.fangraphs.com · 26/08/2026

Well THAT is certainly an argument somebody can make.

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Dan Szymborski @dszymborski.fangraphs.com · 26/08/2026

Asked AI to give you an assist here.

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Dan Szymborski @dszymborski.fangraphs.com · 26/08/2026

I mean seriously, there's no solving the riddle if you put a little green triangle by the answer!

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Dan Szymborski @dszymborski.fangraphs.com · 24/08/2026

I am absolutely NOT going to miss a quest/chest THIS time through. I missed one of each the first time through Trails in the Sky First Chapter and it really pissed me off.

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Dan Szymborski @dszymborski.fangraphs.com · 24/08/2026

I have tortie experience, so I know the punchline! She LOVED to hit one of the other cats and then run away at the speed of light.

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