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Old Time Family Baseball: Hawk Harrelson and Steve Stone, Unsurprisingly, Hate Moneyball and Haven't Read It →

Why am I not surprised at The Hawk & Stone’s reaction to this?

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Part of me wants to view this CSN Chicago article as satire because the whole “I hate Moneyball because Billy Beane is Mark Twain, I’ll tell ya, and why would I want computers to play baseball because I like men playing baseball, the way God intended” shtick became a hilarious cultural meme…

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I assume this has something to do with number of games remaining, but it sure looks weird that the team shown in 2nd place has been eliminated (not to mention the teams in 4th and 5th), but the team in 3rd has not. 

I assume this has something to do with number of games remaining, but it sure looks weird that the team shown in 2nd place has been eliminated (not to mention the teams in 4th and 5th), but the team in 3rd has not. 

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Graph courtesy of fangraphs. click to embiggen, or click here for more data. This is fucking UGLY.  All these guys get paid to do is hit. None of them are. 

Graph courtesy of fangraphs. click to embiggen, or click here for more data.

This is fucking UGLY. 

All these guys get paid to do is hit. None of them are. 

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Carlos Quentin channels Adrian Beltre, appeals to first base ump on a check swing, gets rung up. 

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