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Tango interview:
http://www.metsgeek.com/articles/2008/04/21/interview-tom-tango/
Seriously, it’s a good read, at least as far as these interviews go (I’m not much a fan of them). My only beef is, unless Cameron and Bradley are whiter than they look, it should be “non-Gutsy non-White guys,” or something like that.
I loved the interview. Maybe that’s because I agree with a lot of what he said or maybe because a man who understands this is a rare man:
Normally, I would be tackling the PITCHf/x data, but… (b) the data is still in flux, and I’d rather work on stable datasets.
Thank you, Tom Tango. Most people don’t understand how big the error bars are on most of the PITCHf/x stuff that is being presented. They don’t understand it because we’re still in the very beginning stages of coming to grips with how big the error bars are.
As a physicist, I am perturbed by the things that are taken as fact (see the reaction to John Walsh’s THT piece today) without any attempt to understand error in the measurements. As a baseball fan, I’m a lot more forgiving (and I loved John Walsh’s THT piece).
I meant to say non Gutsy-White-Guys, so everyone other than the Gutsy-White-Guys.
I know you did. The first time I read it, though, I had to do a double take to figure out what you meant!
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I meant to say non Gutsy-White-Guys, so everyone other than the Gutsy-White-Guys.