Does baseball have to be about statistics?
Aug 4th, 2007 by Ashley
I know Sabermetrics is crucial in the game of baseball and Bill James once said that in 1985 Baseball Abstract
I didn’t care about the statistics in anything else. I didn’t, and don’t pay attention to statistics on the stock market, the weather, the crime rate, the gross national product, the circulation of magazine, the ebb and flow of literacy among football fans and how many people are going to starve to death before the year 2050 if I don’t start adoping them for $3.69 a month; just baseball. Now why is that? It is because baseball statistics, unlike the statistics in any other area, have acquired the powers of language.
But as a statistics-hating Math-major-used-to-be, I wanna watch an A’s game without having bother myself with WHIP, OPS, BA and all that jazz. After all, pro-sport is essentially another entertainment business. I should be allowed to enjoy and interpret a game anyway I like. Here at I am Your Sunshine, I value my subjectiveness.
So, don’t talk to me about numbers, I want team spirit, I want passion, I want blood.