You used to get beat up a lot didn't you Lefty?
No, not really. I've dominated in the few fights I've been involved with in my life. What's the point of asking that?
So you stayed in and analyzed stats
Well if
really want to know: I didn't start actually analyzing the game until 2005, when I picked up and read Moneyball on a whim (I was more of a A Brief History of Time, Black Holes and Baby Universes kind of guy up until then); after that I was hooked. I started reading everything I could find on the subject of baseball analysis (Baseball Prospectus books and the like), and sought out others that were interested in similar ventures, ultimately arriving at where I am now. Before all of that I was just happy to watch and play baseball.
and now have a nifty little radio show.
Why thank you.
I bet you were the kind of kid that took names when the teacher left the room weren't you?
What does this have to do with anything? And the answer to that is no, though I was happy as shit when we re-assigned classroom duties and I got to be line leader, if that helps.
Huh? Where is this coming from? Really, getting this offended for someone somewhere sometime calling you out on your stupid shit (rather than accepting it and learning from it) isn't very healthy, especially when you say a bunch of stupid shit.
You take all the fun out of sports
You got me. That whole preamble about my sparked interest in baseball analysis was a lie: I am actually on a life-long crusade to ensure that sports are completely devoid of anything you might even consider "fun". Was it that obvious?
just so you can be smarter than the average fan.
No, I just AM smarter than the average fan. No big deal there.
You can't say what you will to me, you don't know me and I could give a shit.
This.........makes no sense. Please try again later.
So keep it coming because internet assholes make me smile.
Good, then our relationship is at least somewhat symbiotic: "Internet Assholes" like me make you smile, while "Medium-Neutral Morons" like you give me something to gripe about. Good work.
You guys obviously haven't read Moneyball if you think a good bat cancels out atrocious defense
............what? The point hammered home throughout the book was how Billy Beane and his crew capitalized on undervalued assets in players and disregarded the overvalued ones (defense being one of them). Yeah, Lewis writes in the book specifically about how bad the likes of Jeremy Giambi and Scott Hatteberg were with the leather, but those were all precursors to discussion of just how undervalued they were because of their defense, and even further discussion on how the A's kept on winning with that lack of defensive prowess (HINT: it wasn't luck).
