Buzz Bissinger Beats the Other Moneyball Drum
1-liner, Baseball October 20th. 2009, 4:55pmThe Real Moneyball: Because it hasn’t been mentioned enough … “All you need to do is keep in mind one number this postseason: 528,620,438. That’s the amount of money in payroll spent this season by the teams still in it–the New York Yankees, the Los Angeles Angels, the Philadelphia Phillies, and the Los Angeles Dodgers. Moneyball? You bet it’s Moneyball, true Moneyball, like it always has been in baseball and always will be.” Couldn’t help but laughing at this line: “The sabermetricians, unloved and unwanted for so long, scorned by the baseball men brotherhood for their nerdy obsessions, fell to their knees like attendees at a revival.” [TNR]
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October 20th, 2009 at 4:59 PM
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaton!
October 20th, 2009 at 4:59 PM
jesus.
WHY DO YOU HATE STATS SO MUCH? GO WRITE ANOTHER STORY ABOUT HOW STEROIDS HAS TARNISHED YOUR MEMORIES OF MANTLE IN THE OUTFIELD OR GIBSON’S HOMER OR SOME KEN BURNS SHIT LIKE THAT.
October 20th, 2009 at 5:02 PM
Well i just saw A-Rod grab Jeter’s ass during the ALCS last night, rather weird and ghey
October 20th, 2009 at 5:08 PM
I’m no stathead, but people who look down on those who choose to analyze games and performances from a different approach are pompous know-it-alls, who know a lot less than they think they do.
October 20th, 2009 at 5:08 PM
I will never understand why are sabermetricians seen as ‘the enemy’.
October 20th, 2009 at 5:09 PM
I are good at english.
October 20th, 2009 at 5:09 PM
Hey Buzz…The Devil Rays made it to the World Series last year.
October 20th, 2009 at 5:09 PM
so the 4 teams have a bunch of guys on their teams that the sabermetricians like, and paid a lot for them. what’s the point?
October 20th, 2009 at 5:11 PM
i kinda like seeing stat nerds get all pissed off.getting their spread sheets all knotted up.
October 20th, 2009 at 5:12 PM
Knowledge is stupid. People who get A’s are fags.
/7th grade bully’d
October 20th, 2009 at 5:12 PM
/fix’d
October 20th, 2009 at 5:12 PM
anyone else feel like the web is broken? or google is down?
October 20th, 2009 at 5:12 PM
Dammit, I had comment 15 in the “when will a spreadsheet joke be made” pool
October 20th, 2009 at 5:13 PM
TBL: http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/
October 20th, 2009 at 5:15 PM
His argument feels flawed. If Billy Beane had money he would absolutely take ARod. He created his Moneyball principals because he had a very limited budget. Why is that so hard to understand?
October 20th, 2009 at 5:16 PM
s1rweeze – that site is bogus. It said thebiglead.com was up and running. That is never the case.
October 20th, 2009 at 5:21 PM
My favorite thing is he credited Mulder, Zito and Hudson for the A’s being close to the top in scoring.
October 20th, 2009 at 5:24 PM
Still waiting on a “mom’s basement”
October 20th, 2009 at 5:28 PM
You can’t make me learn your newfangled stats, junior.
/spits
//old people’d, sorry jpq
October 20th, 2009 at 5:32 PM
sorry we cant all sit in our mom’s basement and make up new stats with fancy acronyms.
/you’re welcome cass
October 20th, 2009 at 5:37 PM
Ricciardi went to the Toronto Blue Jays and was recently fired after eight seasons. He never made the playoffs, a difficult feat to accomplish when you are in the same division as the Yankees and Boston Red Sox.
Buzz needs an editor.
October 20th, 2009 at 6:56 PM
Thread killa Fred Sanford