“ [O]n the much, much more interesting questions—how much of the rise in partisanship do those changing mores explain, and what else might explain them? — [Trent] Lott really isn’t an authority at all. Treating him as one is sort of like treating a pitcher as an expert on the physics behind a curveball — you might get something interesting out of the conversation, but if you really want an informed perspective, you’re better off asking someone who’s actually studied the issue at hand.”
— Greg Marx
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“ In part due to competitive pressures, it’s newspaper writers and talk-show hosts who, by and large, push the notion that there’s always a reason, that there has to be a reason.”
— Joe Sheehan writing about the over-interpretation of small samples in baseball, but it could be about public opinion polls, or primary election results or whathaveyou.
“ Dallas Braden’s perfect game was thrilling. Roy Halladay’s perfect game was art. But Armando’s Galarraga’s perfect game was a lesson in grace.”
— Joe Posnanski on The Lesson of Jim Joyce
“ No baseball fan has to explain his mania to any other baseball fan. They are a fraternity. It is less easy, often it is hopeless, to try to explain it to anyone else. You grow technical, and you do not make sense. You grow sentimental, and you are deemed soft in the head. How, the benighted outsider ask you with no little condescension, can you grow sentimental about a cold-blooded professional sport?”
— John K. Hutchens (via randomsox)
“ I covered Pedro when he was with the Mets. After his first season was over, he handed out business cards to the beat writers with his cell phone number in case we needed to contract him. They said ‘Pedro J. Martinez, Right-handed pitcher.’”
— Peter Abraham for the Boston Globe (via Captain Furious)
Pedro
Still my favorite player of all time. And he still looks good in that jersey…
“Welcome to the 2010 Season.”
I usually think of the promotional emails from MLB and the Red Sox as spam, but this picture is getting me emotionally prepared for the onslaught of the next 162 games.
“ Baseball is probably the most intensely recorded game in the world. And, beyond that, baseball might be the most intensely recorded activity in the world. I suspect we have more deeply detailed statistics on baseball than we do on crime or cancer or the real estate market.”
— Joe Posnanski on measuring heart
MLB Doesn't Share
MLB Advanced Media makes a mean iPhone app, but that still doesn’t mean that they get it.
Now they need to figure out a way to leverage the excitement of their biggest fans against their own friends, against those (potential) fans who are less enthusiastic about the game.
Empower us to inspire them.
“ Here on Earth, [Gary Matthews Jr.] is probably one of the best thousand outfielders we’ve got. Major League Baseball needs fewer than 200 of those…”
— Christina Kahrl
