Bashbrothers

You should save that paper we were a better team on for the next time you go camping.

NFL lineman aren't all fat. But baseball players are all David Wells.

Anybody that turns down $300mm is obviously a complete retard. This off-season should tell us a lot about Kershaw's mental capacity.

nice try Cez.  that's a reach even for you buddy. 

moneyball is a dope movie, it's one of my favorites.

I think the point of Moneyball was that the A's had to find a way to replace the 11.5 WAR they lost when Giambi and Damon left. They found a way to replace 2/3 of that for less that $5MM using players that pretty much every other team thought were valueless. The difference between replacing that WAR and not was the difference between winning the division and not making the playoffs. Mulder, Zito, and Hudson did great in 2002. And Chavez and Tejada played excellent. But they were on the team in 2001 also. Their performance wasn't what needed to be replaced. The A's needed to replace Giambi and Damon. They found a way to do it by using no money to get castoffs while changing the way teams valued certain stats. And they won one more game than in 2001 despite losing almost 12 WAR of performance.

Athletes wear those ridiculous power necklaces to improve balance -- which is total crap.

Citing guys who wear phiten necklaces and power balance bracelets as an authority might not be the best method of supporting your argument.

Size is debatable

That point has been mentioned on this message board over the last few years, oh about 100 times.  I'm being conservative.  Its low hanging fruit.  The movie's producers were trying to tell what they thought was an interesting story.  Sorry it didn't fit some Angels message board posters' version of how they thought the movie should be made. 
 
Go ahead and make a movie about Zito, Mulder and Hudson.  It'd be totally awesome.

http://steroids-and-baseball.com/actual-effects.shtml
 
 
The guy who has made this thesis has worked as a statistician and a consultant for baseball teams for over thirty years.  Every other statistician who has done thorough and brilliant work on PED's have found no positive effect or negative. 

Moneyball does not = walks.
Moneyball is the process to identify market inefficiencies and exploit them

His reddit AMA was a fantastic train wreck

You are trying way too hard.

Brian Wilson â€@BrianWilson382h
Senator McComplain knows a thing or two about coming in second and watching someone take a plunge in the pool (I mean poll) #POoLITICS

Cabrera's claim to the MVP seems to weaken every day. I'm not sure that we can really say he truly deserves it anymore.

Playing against Josh Donaldson in fantasy baseball finals.  Guessing he hits a grand slam here.

Mike Trout has reached base in all of but 8 games this season

Mike Trout has reached base in all of but 8 games this season

Mike Trout has reached base in all of but 8 games this season

Everyone knows winning in the playoffs is a crapshoot. 
Getting to the playoffs is what matters when you're a gm.

So I guess we should take this as a vote for Brian Cashman for Best GM in MLB?

No wonder the Athletics have been succeeding as of late.

This argument never goes anywhere on a forum because the stat heads know the foundation and appropriate context/usage, and know they are tools, wheras people against advanced metrics, well, they are in a form of denial basically, and 9 of of 10 are pretty ignorant to the sport in question, advanced metrics isn't something new, the applications may be. No one should have to explain why advanced metrics in sports are useful to the common college educated person, they would already know the answer or reach the conclusion using common sense.
 
It's not a right/wrong argument, there really is not argument, there are facts, and theories. Math consists of facts. Not opinions.

This argument never goes anywhere on a forum because the stat heads know the foundation and appropriate context/usage, and know they are tools, wheras people against advanced metrics, well, they are in a form of denial basically, and 9 of of 10 are pretty ignorant to the sport in question, advanced metrics isn't something new, the applications may be. No one should have to explain why advanced metrics in sports are useful to the common college educated person, they would already know the answer or reach the conclusion using common sense.
 
It's not a right/wrong argument, there really is not argument, there are facts, and theories. Math consists of facts. Not opinions.