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Friday, September 10, 2010
POZ! (now if the Rockie announcers would just leave him alone)
Me: What do you love about baseball research?
Posnanski: To me, I think it really plays on my imagination. I love baseball, love the history of the game. There’s no way for me to go back and see Babe Ruth play or see Lou Gehrig play or Ted Williams and Mickey Mantle, these guys. But I can go look at their numbers. I can really try to kind of break down and see what it was that drove them, how they compare with other people. Obviously, there are so many researchers out there, statisticians out there, sabermetricians out there that are just a million times smarter than I am and have done all this incredible research which I’d love to look at.
But part of it for me is just the fun of going and looking at the numbers and trying to kind of figure out, ‘Okay, what does this mean? And how does this work? And what are we missing?’ I think for a long time there was just a sense of watching the game for the pure enjoyment of the game, which I still love. But now, part of me, I’ve seen enough baseball and written enough about baseball that I really want to know how it works or at least try to get a little closer to how it really works, and I think the numbers give us a great opportunity to do that.
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Nothing better than Murray Chass riffage.
Then let's invent some:
His taste in television shows runs a bit to the pedestrian. Discuss.
Best Regards,
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Sorry, that's over the line.
Has anyone ever seen Posnanski and Wieters in the same room?
Posnanski sometimes quotes Meat Loaf for truth.
Posnanski once hit a homer off of Lee Smith.
Posnanski is a big fan of Two and Half Men.
Posnanski assumes that "Oh Captain, My Captain!" refers to him.
Posnanski wont shut up unless he gets to play Iago at the community theater.
Posnanski likes the Ewoks.
Posnanski just buys the pre-made pie crusts.
Posnanski is actually Polanski; he raped that girl back in the 70's and uses this as an alter-ego to get back in the states
Posnanski considers Rachael Ray insightful
Posnanski is that guy who only throws hail mary passes in Madden
Posnanski buys pre-ground coffee
Posnanski won't tell you about that booger hanging out of your left nostril
Posnanski roots for the Red Wings
Posnanski kept the walkthrough open the entire time he played King's Quest III
Posnanski chews on the pencils he borrows
Posnanski wouldn't give Captain Ramius one ping
Posnanski reads Newsweek
Posnanski prefers Titian to Raphael
Yeah. Maybe I shouldn't have mentioned it, but this thread made me think of the guy. Brattain would have had about ten funny Poz posts by now.
He never wrote about Nomar saving a drowning girl because he couldn't find the human interest angle.
He once confused Buck O'Neil with Buck Leonard.
He was optimistic when the Royals hired Trey Hillman.
He checks the hit-counter on his blog more often than he'd want others to know.
In his car, Joe has directed all of the A.C. vents -- even those on the passenger's side -- onto himself.
No, it doesn't. And what's more, it's white.
Posnanski doesn't always come to a full stop.
Posnanski swings on 3-0.
Posnanski bunts against the shift.
Scratch this last one, I think he's actually straight.
EDIT: Whole thread and then I'm beaten by mere seconds. *Reclines seat onto AS*
On Laserdisc.
But he pronounces it "lip sings."
Posnanski could care less, and does so.
Posnanski corrects other people when they incorrectly use "whom" where "who" is actually appropriate.
Posnanski does not take his child out of a restaurant when it's screaming.
Poz spoke up and told the trooper those were the droids they were looking for.
Poz thought it was a cave.
Poz donated time and money to Jar Jar's campaign.
Posnanski's sh!t is racist.
Posnanski likes the new Digg.
Posnanski does not use his turn signal well in advance of the turn, so that when I'm stopped at the intersection waiting for an opening to turn myself, I miss my chance while he slows down.
Posnanski killed the radio star. And J.R.
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