An Open Letter to Murray Chass

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Reds (and Blues) found this 3/2/2007 on www.baseballprospectus.com [flag]
Hi, Murray. I write to you as one baseball fan to another. There are only a few of us who are fortunate enough to have turned our love for baseball into a career. We are both in that lucky group. That’s why I was disappointed to read the... [link]

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Baseball Prospectus Verus Chass
Published 3/2/2007 by JP at Reds (and Blues)
... However, Chass’s disrespect was pointed directly at VORP and the number crunching geeks who supposedly spend all day on their computer sucking the fun out of the game for everyone else. Of course, BPro felt compelled to respond. Nate Silver took the high road with the chicken dung “open letter” approach. Nate certainly was civil in his letter, but publishing an open letter is still an underhanded route of calling one out. Chris Jaffe was much more direct and less civil in a published chat session.

Around the horn: Spring trash talk
Published 3/2/2007 by Pip at Fungoes
... We actually think the bit about a "professional" newspaper is being kind. Here’s a more civil rebuttal from BPro’s Nate Silver:

A tale of two sportswriters
Published 3/2/2007 by Mike Miliard at Sox Blog
... * Baseball Prospectus’s “Open Letter to Murray Chass”

Computer Blue
Published 3/14/2007 by Mike at Temporary Bleachers: a chicago cubs blog
... and “new age” statisticians and bloggers.

How Sabermetrics Helps Build a Better Ballgame
Published 5/10/2007 by Nate Silver at Baseball Analysts
... to criticizing Baseball Prospectus. As I replied at that time, what most took be aback about his column was its assertion that sabermetrics "threatens to undermine most fans' enjoyment of baseball."