Baker judges by his senses

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Daugherty: Dusty Baker: Knowing what makes his players tick more important than their stats
Published 3/9/2008 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
Daugherty: Dusty Baker: Knowing what makes his players tick more important than their stats Just gonna cherry pick a few choice Daugherty lines for your Sunday morning here...before I add pumice to my mangled cup. The best baseball managing is done by the seat of your pants, using good, old-fashioned, pre-sabermetric logic. That’s another reason to like Dusty Baker. (Beyond his knowledge of single-malt Scotches and Van Morrison lyrics, which is merely astounding and downright Renaissance.) If Baker manages by a book, it’s one inside his head, not one written by Bill James. ...

There Is Very Little Common Sense in Baseball Journalism
Published 3/9/2008 by Pat Lackey at FanHouse
... -style seek-and-destroy mission, but we do want to point out things that are just painfully stupid and why they are that way. So thank you, Paul Daughterty of the Cincinnati Enquirer for giving me something to do this afternoon. ...

Kendall to bat ninth
Published 3/9/2008 by battlekow <info@brewcrewball.com> at Brew Crew Ball: Front Page Posts
... Contrast Milwaukee's (you don't really think Yost volunteered for this, do you?) flexibility and openness with that of the new Cincinnati regime: ...

Joe Sheehan on Dusty and OBP
Published 3/10/2008 by Chris at Redleg Nation
... . The local press fawns over him in a way that would be embarrassing if it wasn’t just slightly worse than par for the course in the profession. Baker’s anti-intellectualistic approach to baseball dovetails nicely with the ...

Baseball Today: Monday, March 10
Published 3/10/2008 by Art Martone (amartone@projo.com) at Projo Sox Blog
... GET A HORSE! The Cincinanti Enquirer's Paul Daugherty isn't buying any of that new-fangled stats hooey. Luckily for him, the team he covers has a manager who feels exactly the way he does . . . and he drives home his point by crowing that that very manager, Dusty Baker, has won 1,162 games as a major-league skipper while Bill James hasn't won any. ...

Apparently, Chicago Does NOT Have A Monopoly On Lousy Sportswriting
Published 3/10/2008 by Mike D. at Hire Jim Essian!
... approach afflicted my team at one point in time. So it follows that Dusty and his anti-intellectual, reactionary outlook happens to attract many like-minded individuals in the world of sports journalism. That’s fine. I take heart in knowing that, over time, these flat-earthers will eventually have gone the way of the dodo bird–which is why it is more with amusement, than annoyance, that I read some of this tripe. Today, I present to you the words of some guy named Pete Daugherty, as he laughably gives credence to Dusty’s “philosophy” while pointlessly scorching the earth of ...

Stupid People Say Stupid Things
Published 3/11/2008 by mr. met at the metropolitans
Everyone once in a while an article so great...so tremendous...so utterly ridiculous comes along for our pure amusement. Paul Daugherty gave us such an article on Sunday. ...

Published 3/14/2008 by Aaron at AaronGleeman.com
... Difficult as it may be to believe, one absolutely horrendous article by long-time Cincinnati Enquirer columnist Paul Daughtery made me thankful for both Patrick Reusse and Ron Gardenhire. ...