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“Andrew Jackson, in the primary lobby of his White Home had a giant block of cheese. The block of cheese was large, over two tons, and it was there for any and all who is likely to be hungry. Jackson needed the White Home to belong to the individuals, so every now and then, he opened his doorways to those that wished an viewers…”
That’s the late, nice John Spencer as Leo McGarry in Season 1, Episode 5 of The West Wing, giving his Huge Block of Cheese Day speech to the senior employees within the Roosevelt Room. I like to consider this mailbag as FanGraphs’ personal Huge Block of Cheese Day. We open issues up for you, our readers, to ask no matter questions you might have for us, and like Leo, I comb by them and delegate a few of them out to our employees to reply. (It’s enjoyable to contemplate myself Meg’s chief of employees, and on this FanGraphs-as-West Wing analogy, Baumann is unquestionably Josh Lyman.) And as is the case within the Huge Block of Cheese Day episodes, we at FanGraphs all the time stroll away extra enlightened baseball followers after answering your questions.
Huge Block of Cheese Day got here to thoughts for this mailbag due to a query I obtained this week that we’ll get to momentarily. However earlier than then, I’d wish to remind all of you that whereas anybody can submit a query, this mailbag is unique to FanGraphs Members. Should you aren’t but a Member and wish to hold studying, you may join a Membership right here. It’s the easiest way to each expertise the location and help our employees, and it comes with a bunch of different nice advantages. Additionally, should you’d wish to ask a query for an upcoming mailbag, ship me an e-mail at mailbag@fangraphs.com.
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