I guess I think that's just dumb.

me 2

i think id enjoy it more of it were an old guy who actually did think that way, just to know he exists beyond howard eskin....

Waht happened to jeremy Brown,anyway? He appears to have had a pretty decent minor league career.

He retired for undisclosed personal reasons. I don't think it in any way discredits "Moneyball," whatever that even means.

swishnicholson wrote:Waht happened to jeremy Brown,anyway? He appears to have had a pretty decent minor league career.

It looks like it took him three years to get out of the Texas League. I'm pretty sure the Texas League is a pretty good hitters league. His numbers aren't really all that impressive when you considere his age and the league context I guess.

I read somewhere that he's a pretty fat giuy and not much of a catcher. He doesn't have the bat for a 1st baseman or DH and he can't really play anywhere else.

It looks like he was pretty fringy as a player and guys like that sometimes luck into careers in the bigs (like Sal Fasano) and sometimes they don't get the chance.

BTW, one interesting line in the article says something about how Beane caught lightning in a bottle. Well the A's won 91, 102, 103, 96, 91, 88, and 93 games in a pretty good AL West division from 200o-2006. That's an awful lot of lightning in a pretty large bottle.

The fact that some draft pick didn't work out so hot is a pretty weak basis for any kind of point you are trying to make. The article was kinda lame all around wasn't it?

Probably the big reason the A's have fallen recently is they have suffered a lot of injuries to key guys -- like Chavez and Harden and guys like that. Beane continues to make trades for young guys and the A's may be back winning 90+ games here fairly quickly.

I think too, that a lot of teams have gotten smarter over the last ten years regarding how toi build winning teams. That has made it tougher for Beane's A's to do what they did ten years ago.

http://sports.espn.go.com/keyword/search?searchString=Jim_Baker
Art Garfamudis is Jim Baker.

fjm tore this a new one already. i especially liked this part.

The best thing about Baker is that from all accounts, it's important to him to know his players individually: what jazzes them, what scares them, the situations that best suit their talents and temperaments. Contrary to the notions of the seamheads and stat freaks, players are not numbers.

Don't use jazz as a verb, please. Also: stat freaks and seam heads hate baseball. They are fucking ASIMO robots who make managerial moves through NASA press releases. Eric Wedge makes his moves from home, via on-line chats. Terry Francona has never met anyone on his 25-man roster. Joe Maddon is a 2.4 gigahertz Linksys router. Manny Acta is actually M.A.N. eACTA, the black-ops code-name for the Mechanized Algorithmic Numerical (internet-ready) Actionable Computation Techno-Automaton. When his "contract" runs out with the Nats he is going to be launched into space. We are weaponizing space. Deal with it, China.

Well, that was confusing.

what was? the bolded part is from the article, and the unbolded part is FJM's response.

The Manny Acta line was laugh out loud funny.

I feel like these writers are just trolling at this point with these articles.

Is it good for a sports writer's career to be ridiculed on FJM?

If you shot back that Blanton has won 42 times in the last three years - and that he went 7-5 at home last year and 7-5 on the road - if you suggested that no number matters but Games Won, you were dismissed as an illiterate.

I guess Paul Daugherty forgot what happened when the Reds signed Eric Milton based on his 14-6 record with the Phillies.

i think the scariest part is how he lauds dusty for wanting to change the way dunn and votto approach hitting.

This article appeared in the Enquirer the same day. Actually, "article" is being generous since it's so short and relatively pointless. It seems likes it's more a way of saying, "We're not all idiots here, but we're pretty sure having Daugherty act like one will help sell papers somehow."

At a team level, statistical analysis can help a club evaluate its talent, acquire undervalued talent and help it better understand its needs and how to allocate resources.

It is not an either/or proposition - the most successful teams are combining traditional scouting approaches with analysis.

MarkdlV wrote:I'm pretty sure this is some lame ESPN gimmick. If you google "Art Garfamudis" nothing comes up. And his other articles are schticky as well.

I think it's a BSG inside job.


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Bucky wrote:

MarkdlV wrote:I'm pretty sure this is some lame ESPN gimmick. If you google "Art Garfamudis" nothing comes up. And his other articles are schticky as well.

I think it's a BSG inside job.


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The ESPN website is run from a freighter off shore and Ben Linus has a man on the inside who is probably Michael.

AP article on the Dodgers' final game in Vero Beach

In an era when spring training has become big business, this complex was more like baseball's petting zoo, where players were encouraged to chat with fans and sign their balls.

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Crasnick's 30 MLB slogans

New York Mets: "We're More Amazin' Than the Phillies"

Philadelphia Phillies: "Oh Yeah, Well Jose Reyes Can't Carry Jimmy Rollins' Jockstrap"

ew

Okay, this article by Kevin Tresolini in today's Wilmington News-Journal, about the Villanova-Delaware rivalry isn't all that bad - in fact, it's mostly pretty good.

http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs ... 002/SPORTS

But being a native of the Main Line and a Villanova basketball and football fan, I have to nominate the article anyway for this egregious, if not totally serious I suspect, paragraph:

"Blue Hens followers take particular delight in showing those snooty Main Liners their down-to-earth grit and unyielding commitment by caring much more about football than their Pennsylvania neighbors, whom they significantly and regularly outdraw."