Everyone’s Mad At Bill James For Being An Old Dummy
Bill James, father of sabermetrics, consultant for the Boston Red Sox, and guy who routinely shares the sort of opinions that get him publicly clowned by his daughter, unleashed a doozie last night. While engaging in a discussion on Twitter about whether MLB players are overpaid, James wrote in a since-deleted tweet, “If the players all retired tomorrow, we would replace them, the game would go on; in three years it would make no difference whatsoever. The players are NOT the game, any more than the beer vendors are.” Not only is James’s take extremely stupid and wrong, it’s the kind of...
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