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Originally Posted by The Wolf
No, you choose to posture as a self-appointed expert that you are not. Get back to me when you have published your own research and are a recognized expert on baseball instead of just a poseur with delusions of grandeur.
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Because you are unable to evaluate the research you choose to denegrate anyone who disagrees with it.
It is ironic. The Sabermetric movement took on the established "truths" and was met with ridicule and name calling. Traditional baseball people dismissed them for never having cashed a check from actually playing the game. Now the Sabermetrician conclusions are not to be questioned by anyone who does not call himself a Sabermatrician? Rich.
Since you are incapable of defending
why you agree with Tango, James, etc, you simply cite them and say "case closed."
The works of Tango, James, etc are to be considered and reviewed and to stimulate thought and discussion, not end it.
You may continue to accept that pitchers have nothing to do with BABIP because Voros McCracken said so...and published this assertion.
What a dilemma it must have been when Tango smacked his idiotic, but "expert" (according to your standards) "research". Now you had to choose between which "expert" was right.
I am a fan of Tango and James. That doesn't mean that they are right in everything that they posit. However, James and Tango both, are much more measured in their conclusions than you are regarding their conclusions. James particularly uses the phrase "the data show
x" repeatedly as opposed to the mentally lazy who say "
x is fact. Argue with James, Tango, etc."
As was previously posted here, there is a difference between "proven" and "hypothesized".
Some people understand that.
Some get defensive when it is made clear that they cannot differentiate between the two.