Probably the funniest article written after the Ken Macha fallout:
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/Con...l=970081600908
My favorite line:
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Now, we're getting as tired as anyone else of the baseball term originally coined as the title of a Michael Lewis book on how to compete on a limited budget by going against the grain of traditional baseball thinking.
Like many other things once new, Moneyball has become old. It doesn't work because now everybody does at least a little outside the box thinking. It's like comparing Ozzy Osbourne of the '70s to Osbourne today. No more edge.
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The reason you writers are tired of Moneyball is because *you* guys (and gals) are the only people that bring that term up!