Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Sept 17, 2018 17:44:35 GMT
Sept 17, 2018 16:44:27 GMT _ said:
Baseball sucks now anyway.The Cult of Sabermetrics is ruining the game.
I can't even read half of these nerds articles and understand anything. wRC+, BABIP, UZR, WPA, FIP, Blah blah blah.
Mention ERA or Batting Average or chemistry on the SB Nation Pages and they will jump all over you and threaten to throw you out.
the lure of ideology is strong, it engenders in the believer's ego the feeling of being smart, while also, never having to actually make a decision--a true marker of intelligence. to maintain the hallucination that the ideology brings Utopian ends dissent is not tolerated.