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Originally Posted by Goody
Didn't you ever see the movie Bull Durham?! 
Stats are fun. They are what draws most baseball (and certainly text sim baseball) fans in. But they aren't the heart and soul of the game that should dictate every decision.
I always think of these sabermetric guys when I see that scene in the movie 61* when Maris fails to hit the bomb off of Hoyt Wilhelm the one reporter asks the snarky reporter who is dogging out Roger Maris..."Have you ever actually played baseball?" |
This is the attitude that drives me crazy. The assumption that people who love stats never play or watch the game.
Baseball is the only sport I ever played, and while I do watch football and soccer, I watched all 162 games of my team last year.
I love statistics because they help me understand what I'm watching.