[ehrie]

In an ESPN chat some time ago Bill James remarked this when someone asked him about why peopel aren't more accepting of sabermaterics and statistical judging right now. I'm paraphrasing here because I can't find the actual transcript. He said, "Through sabermetrics are are coming close to gaining an understanding and analysis of the game without having to watch or play it and that scares a lot of people who play baseball and feel their playing gives them a unique insight that no one who doesn't play could possibly have. Also, sabermetics is proving a lot of century old "truths" about baseball wrong."

I respect the subjective "My eyes tell me who is the best" point of view, but it's hard when the two sides clash. The fact of the matter is our eyes will always be subjective, that's just the way humans are and in my view, numbers don't lie as easily as what our eyes perceive.