Zitat des Tages von Bill James:
Do people really believe there's something different about the eyes of murderers?
We don't genuinely need more literary geniuses. One can only read so many books in a lifetime.
We need new athletes all the time because we need new games every day - fudging just a little on the definition of the word 'need.' We like to have new games every day, and, if we are to have a constant and endless flow of games, we need a constant flow of athletes.
There comes a moment during a job interview when you're still talking, but you might as well take off your shoes.
You know one little way in which baseball changes us? We don't even think twice about Japanese names anymore. You know what I mean?
I do have a family, and obviously I spend as much time as I can with them. Though even when I'm with my family, my mind tends to drift toward baseball.
Professionalism in medicine has given us medial miracles for the affluent but hospitals that will charge $35 for aspirin.
Do we need to have 280 brands of breakfast cereal? No, probably not. But we have them for a reason - because some people like them. It's the same with baseball statistics.
You can't ultimately dodge defeat by winning close elections.
Crime cases tend to be fascinating until you figure out what happened.
I try to take large, general questions that are difficult to resolve and break them down into small, very specific questions that have clear answers.
I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.
I would never encourage my children to be athletes - first because my children are not athletes and second because there are so many people pushing to get to the top in sports that 100 people are crushed for each one who breaks through. This is unfortunate.
Bunting is usually a waste of time. The - generally, yeah, I mean, if you think about it, bunt is the only play in baseball that both sides applaud. The - if the home team bunts, you get a base. The home team applauds because they get an out, and the other team applauds because they get a base. So what does that tell you?
When I was a small kid, I grew up in the newspapers.
In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example.
Crime shapes how we think about the world; it shapes social decisions that we make; it shapes our base of knowledge. But we don't talk about it intelligently.
