That Balls Outta Here » brad pitt http://thatballsouttahere.com A Philadelphia Phillies Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More Sat, 18 May 2013 20:02:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Moneyballs Deep: The Last Baseball Blogger to Learn Sabermetrics, Pt.3 http://thatballsouttahere.com/2011/01/17/moneyballs-deep-the-last-baseball-blogger-to-learn-sabermetrics-pt-3/ http://thatballsouttahere.com/2011/01/17/moneyballs-deep-the-last-baseball-blogger-to-learn-sabermetrics-pt-3/#comments Mon, 17 Jan 2011 12:29:50 +0000 Justin Klugh http://thatballsouttahere.com/?p=3594 So I’m assuming reading “Moneyball” by Michael Lewis will open my eyes to Sabermetrics and also give me more to do when someone mentions the book other than laugh when everybody else does.  Check out part one and part two.  Hopefully I’ll be caught up with every other baseball blogger in no time.

Chapters 3-4 (The Enlightenment, Field of Enlightenment)

Here are my notes on chapter three:

  • Lenny Dykstra – idiot
  • These must be the beginning of Beane’s thoughts. (Make “Beane-ginnings” pun somewhere?  No.)
  • Getting laid as a ballplayer–if it is as easy as Billy Beane describes, I now have less than zero sympathy for these people. (more…)
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