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1. Boxkutter Posted: March 03, 2012 at 12:29 PM (#4073274)Well, having to follow the President is a pretty tall order...
He said the same thing about Pete Rose.
Thank god he isn't running for president.
Simmons is absolutely great on basketball. Even on baseball, where he's not as good, he was way ahead of the mainstream media's curve. Some of the MSM guys may have been reading James and BBPRO, etc., but they wouldn't admit it. Simmons was linking to BBPRO and other pretty stat intensive sites back in the mid-1990s.
That's, at best, debatable. But I did find his Book of Basketball a lot of fun and consider that his best sport.
Yes. That's right.
My problem is that sometimes the people who want Simmons to be something he's not includes Simmons himself. We might agree that he's an entertainer, but he clearly thinks he can be an analyst and tries to be from time-to-time.
I'm not going to get my underwear in a twist if he refuses to agree that he's not.
I was surprised Simmons didn't ask him about the feud with Elias. As that recedes in time, we hear less about it, but it was quite firey, and probably responsible for one of the most enduring aspects of James' work.
I was under the impression that Simmons was a giant talking taco that defecated ice cream.
I did like the point at the end about David Ortiz vs. Brad Fullmer. I remember picking up Fullmer for some sim team I was running at the time, and wanting the Royals to get him.
Has anyone here read James' crime stuff? I'm not really into crime books, but he's such a good writer I'd consider checking it out if they're nearly as good as his baseball stuff.
Assuming you're not trolling - well, whether you are or not - that's a different Bill James, no matter what Amazon seems to think.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_James_(novelist)
I meant this. I guess I thought he had more than one, which is why I said "books".
Baseball Bill James has written a non-fiction crime book: Popular Crime: Reflections on the Celebration of Violence.
EDIT: cokes
Cokes.
He was one of the first in the mainstream media to constantly talk about how baseball is boring and obsolete and is soon going to be as unpopular with young people as horse racing and boxing, if that's what you mean.
I appreciate the non-jackhole way Lassus informed me of that. I didn't know about this book - which was just published last year, I see, so I don't feel too out of the loop. I've been getting those Amazon "You might be interested to know that Bill James has a new..." notifications about the other Bill James for years.
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