deadspin.com - 6/22/2009
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Now that Joe Morgan is telling tales 'round the national campfire , who out there is left to make specious, proudly ignorant arguments about the value of baseball statistics? Batter up, Harold Reynolds ! I'm going to quote this in full, partly because you really need to read the whole thing to ...
joeposnanski.com - 6/19/2009
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joeposnanski.com —
I like Harold Reynolds. I mean, I don’t
really know the guy, but he seems to be...
a likable guy on television. And friends who do know him tell me he’s a very likable guy. And one of my favorite baseball images is that of Harold Reynolds ...
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Bugging Harold Reynolds
haroldreynolds.mlblogs.com - 6/19/2009
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haroldreynolds.mlblogs.com —
It's been real interesting in the last couple
years as I've watched how the importance of statistics...
has taken over how to analyze a baseball game. I used to play for an old time manager named DIck Williams who...
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Enjoy it for what it's worth
beyondtheboxscore.com - 6/22/2009
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beyondtheboxscore.com —
Harold Reynolds recently wrote an article on his
blog (he has a blog?) about, uh, OPS and...
Dick Williams and some other stuff. You see, part of the problem is that it's awfully hard to figure out what he was actually trying to say. Harold doesn't appear to be a great writer -- which ...
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Defending Harold Reynolds
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Joe Morgan Keeps Lying [Blog Patrol]
FanIQ Blog —
Joe Morgan clears up a lie by lying again. Nicely done. [Larry Brown Sports]
Harold Reynolds is not a stat-man, doesn't believe in OPS. [Deadspin]
Why live TV is awesome, or horrible. Australian rugby player flashes TV camera. [Sports Rubbish]
Anna Rawson is longer the hottest woman's golfer out there. [InGameNow]
Fresh off his Finals choke job, Dwight Howard is working on a movie. [New York Post]
Baseball: Stats all, folks
Sports Media Journal —
... to Reynolds’ post in his own blog. Thanks to Deadspin for pointing these out.) Some former players — and apparently Reynolds is one of them, with Joe Morgan being the most prominent example — want to disregard the statistical analysis they seem to believe takes the human element out of baseball and reduces their visceral experience to dry numbers on a page or computer screen. And, as we all know, baseball isn’t dry. There’s all that sweat, not to mention tobacco juice. However, those who rail against stat-ic cling (yeah, I thought of that all by myself) are misjudging the ...
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