Marvin Benard was the greatest CF I’ve ever seen!

Shawon Dunston is awesome.

So Oscar is not chosen in a similar way to Rookie of the Year, Cy Young and MVP awards? I am so glad there is nothing circular about that argument.

the best thing about meryl streep is meryl sheep

You know you could have warned me it was a Simmons article.

I kind of feel silly for enjoying this article considering it was a Bill SImmons piece and it blatantly shoves aside the notion that stats carry any weight. But for whatever reason, I came away from it feeling a bit nostalgic from the time when I looked at baseball as such an amazing spectacle.

I realize I’m kind of preaching to the wrong choir because of the amazing stats analysis that goes on around these parts, but there is certainly something to be said for recognizing greatness like I did when I was little.

Anyways, Bill Simmons is awful for the most part for his east coast bias and incredible ignorance on many subjects, but the line about Barry brought about some emotion for me, and I’d thought I share it for kicks.

I really like Simmons, I read his stuff and listen to his podcasts all the time. He’s not an anti-stats guy at all. This isn’t his best article but I believe the point he’s trying to make is that people don’t need to be so concerned with how steroids “ruined baseball.”

You often hear people say that steroids are such a problem in baseball, as opposed to football, because of how sacred the various records are and how inflated steroid numbers make it difficult to compare players from different eras. Most of us around here know that you need put all players in the context of the era they played in. So I think Simmons’ real beef is not with STATS, but rather with people complaining about steroids.