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There Are Several Insights At The Heart Of The A’s System That I Think Are Wonderful For Baseball. One, That It’s A Team Game. That No One Player Is Going To Make That Much Of A Difference To Your Team, So For God’s Sake Don’t Go Blow A Quarter Of Your Budget On One Guy.

That Was How A Salomon Bond Trader Thought: He Forgot Whatever It Was That He Wanted To Do For A Minute And Put His Finger On The Pulse Of The Market. If The Market Felt Fidgety, If People Were Scared Or Desperate, He Herded Them Like Sheep Into A Corner, Then Made Them Pay For Their Uncertainty. He Sat On The Market Until It Puked Gold Coins. Then He Worried About What He Wanted To Do.

People Who Think They Know What They Are Talking About When They Talk About Baseball Include The Announcers And All Of The Sports Press - No Matter How Much Evidence You Present Them To The Contrary They Will Continue To Think That What They Think Is Right.

There Has Been This - And It's Reflected In The Broadcasts - This Moronic Use Of Statistics. Which Has Suggested To Everyone Who Is Intelligent The Use Of Statistics Is Moronic.

My Characters Are Actually Usually Pretty Smart And Admirable.