How can baseball dinosaurs so consistently get Moneyball wrong?

Listen, I'm no baseball expert. My last year of organized baseball was 8th grade, when I literally did not get a hit all season in Senior Ball.

But I get the concepts of Billy Beane. Its not rocket science. How can these baseball neanderthals be so consistently wrong about some pretty basic concepts?

From Bill Conlin:
http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/20110719_Bill_Conlin__Athletics__Beane_has_been_Beaned.html

...The A's went for position players who put up good numbers in good programs, run scorers and high OBP guys. They also were big on BA with RISP...


Seriously? After all these years? You can't get the basic sabermetric stuff right? Billy Beane was looking for CLUTCH HITTING??

Pathetic.

 

Wait, I thought the baseball dinosaurs were from this awesome generation and it was all the kids of today's generation who were a bunch of lazy bums who didn't do anything but tweet stupid things.

 

I mean, wrong wrong WRONG. Joe Morgan still thinks that Billy Beane actually wrote the book. That level of wrong.

 

Poin, you didn't go far enough with the excerpt. Conlin continues: "Contact hitting was more sought after than longballing." Uh, that would be no.

 

yup, I stopped reading.

Seriously, unreal.

 

But not surprising from Conlin.

 

I feel stupider for having read that. That's how awful that is.

 

Maybe he's doing what I was doing that day with the Scottie Pippen/Arkansas shenanigans?

 

No, tweeting stupid things is just one of the things the kids of today's generation do.

And NOW you may get off my friggin' lawn.

 

I'd be inclined to join the Conlin-bashing except one little fact: What has Beane won?

 

"This never happens when writers use 'smart phones' to type up their articles."

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