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Eggs
Apr 15, 2007

FairGame posted:

Enter Murray Chass, a former sportswriter for the New York Times. Chass, who has the ability to cast votes for entrance into the MLB Hall of Fame, hates the poo poo out of anything that isn't wins or RBIs, and he especially hates bloggers and their blogs. In spite of this, he has a blog.


As far as statistics go I wonder why a pitcher's wins are always displyed so prominently, seems to be one of the more useless stats in sports.

Eggs fucked around with this message at 20:44 on Aug 28, 2010

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Eggs
Apr 15, 2007

Bigass Moth posted:

It was probably more important 100 years ago when pitchers started 30-50 games and rarely did not finish them.

Ah yeah, forgot that pitchers used to go the whole game back then. But still, you'd think in the year 2010 a major sport like baseball would want to move past the old era and try to modernize a little bit more than they have. Or maybe I'm just being too idealistic.

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