Brantt wrote:
Missanelli has a master's degree and a law degree. He also passed the bar exam and was a practicing lawyer before deciding to get into sports journalism.

To call him stupid is, well, stupid.

Brantt wrote:Missanelli has a master's degree and a law degree. He also passed the bar exam and was a practicing lawyer before deciding to get into sports journalism.

To call him stupid is, well, stupid.

Bakestar wrote:

Brantt wrote:
Missanelli has a master's degree and a law degree. He also passed the bar exam and was a practicing lawyer before deciding to get into sports journalism.

To call him stupid is, well, stupid.

All due respect, I'm a lawyer and I know plenty of lawyers who are stupid, anti-intellectual dickwipers.

CrashburnAlley wrote:

Barry Jive wrote:

Woody wrote:

Trent Steele wrote:

CrashburnAlley wrote:Missanelli provided absolutely zero facts while Law provided about seventy billion. Mikey Miss is an intellectual peanut.

This is undeniably true. At the same time, Law comes off like a douche - in this interview, in his chats, on his twitters, in his articles. His points become less effective because he is a douche. No one likes being talked down to by a douche. It doesn't matter if the douche is correct. That is how the real world works.

Agreed. Law needs to explain the concepts he takes for granted much better to the type of people who listen to sports radio who have never had a statistics or economics class in their lifetime. Is there something that requires SABR dudes to be smug asshats?

Crashburn, you wanna field this one

On general mathematic principles, such as mean-regression and such, that's not Law's job. It's not his fault Americans are pitiful when it comes to math.

On Sabermetric principles, he doesn't have enough airtime to describe them both accurately and concisely in a way that makes most people grasp the concept. At some colleges, they offer Sabermetric classes. The stuff gets complicated.

Sabermetrics simply makes for bad radio. There's no way to discuss it, especially with someone who disagrees with you, in a way that is entertaining and does not come across as arrogant to less educated people.

On Missanelli's behavior... to quote Errol Morris, "A stupid person is a person who treats a smart person as though they're stupid."

CrashburnAlley wrote:

Brantt wrote:Missanelli has a master's degree and a law degree. He also passed the bar exam and was a practicing lawyer before deciding to get into sports journalism.

To call him stupid is, well, stupid.

That says nothing about his intelligence. It shows he can argue well, but it doesn't display anything about his intelligence. Do you know what kind of work he did for his degrees? Have you read any of the theses he had to write?

Stop being a sheep following a shepherd.

Woody wrote:Law set the SABR community back at least two standard deviations with that performance.

CrashburnAlley wrote:

Brantt wrote:Missanelli has a master's degree and a law degree. He also passed the bar exam and was a practicing lawyer before deciding to get into sports journalism.

To call him stupid is, well, stupid.

That says nothing about his intelligence. It shows he can argue well, but it doesn't display anything about his intelligence. Do you know what kind of work he did for his degrees? Have you read any of the theses he had to write?

Stop being a sheep following a shepherd.

Woody wrote:Sure, there are plenty of ways. Law started off pretty good but as soon as he was challenged he quickly regressed to his mean state--which is being a condescending prick. Missanelli of course is also a prick, but that's par the course these days. Law could have handled himself better, but there was little point. Missanelli has gone full shock jock--there was zero chance that wasn't going to end with him shouting at Keith Law. But still, Law set the SABR community back at least two standard deviations with that performance.

Bakestar wrote:

Brantt wrote:
Missanelli has a master's degree and a law degree. He also passed the bar exam and was a practicing lawyer before deciding to get into sports journalism.

To call him stupid is, well, stupid.

All due respect, I'm a lawyer and I know plenty of lawyers who are stupid, anti-intellectual dickwipers.

Monkeyboy wrote:

Bakestar wrote:

Brantt wrote:
Missanelli has a master's degree and a law degree. He also passed the bar exam and was a practicing lawyer before deciding to get into sports journalism.

To call him stupid is, well, stupid.

All due respect, I'm a lawyer and I know plenty of lawyers who are stupid, anti-intellectual dickwipers.

Is your penis shrinking or something? How many people do you feel the need to call stupid in one week? If you need to make yourself feel better, try drugs or hire a hooker or something. Leave everyone else out of your mess.

jamiethekiller wrote:missanelli came off way worse than Law.

Woody wrote:

Monkeyboy wrote:

Bakestar wrote:

Brantt wrote:
Missanelli has a master's degree and a law degree. He also passed the bar exam and was a practicing lawyer before deciding to get into sports journalism.

To call him stupid is, well, stupid.

All due respect, I'm a lawyer and I know plenty of lawyers who are stupid, anti-intellectual dickwipers.

Is your penis shrinking or something? How many people do you feel the need to call stupid in one week? If you need to make yourself feel better, try drugs or hire a hooker or something. Leave everyone else out of your mess.

lol, uh, what?

Monkeyboy wrote:I am referring to Bake's tiny Johnson.

I think someone needs to look up the definition of stupid. All the people you guys are discussing have better than average intelligence. Some of the things they say may be stupid, but they are not stupid.

Monkeyboy wrote:I think someone needs to look up the definition of stupid. All the people you guys are discussing have better than average intelligence. Some of the things they say may be stupid, but they are not stupid.