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Thursday, March 18, 2010
A very good interview with Bill James, by Geoff Baker, the Seattle writer
I don’t know how it works, but you can’t get better video quality for these live (and recorded) internet feeds?
Is Geoff Baker THE most sabermetrically knowledgeable mainstream journalist?
Bill James facial expressions at the beginning are priceless! Like a little kid on TV for the first time.
James offers some good stuff, as usual. At the same time, he is vague on questions that don’t require vague answers, and just flat our wrong on some things (like when he declares that the Mariners were a true 75-win team last year, presumably because that was their pythag win total).
When he was asked, “What stat he likes best (even though that is a silly question)?” he responds that he is partial to win shares and losses, of course, which should make Tango scream. Reminds me of a Steven Wrightesque joke I heard on the radio from a comedian: He said, “I heard an interesting statistic today - 7.364!”