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Baseball Under Attack
Feb 3 2020
Faux News
Baseball is under attack, an attack more dangerous than the Black Sox Scandal, the Yankees forty year dominance of the AL, Curt Flood's challenge of the reserve clause, juiced baseballs, and the cheating of the Astros and Red Sox. Most fans remain anaware of the insidious creeping attack of the Sabermetric Cult.
It first established itself by sneaking the bogus OPS statistic into the stat tables at Baseball Reference. Then it got broadcasters talking about WAR. However since baseball has not granted official recognition to some of its statistics, the Cult is now acting to influence fans directly.
That knock on your door? That's a couple members of the Sabermetric Cult wanting to talk to you. At first it may seem logical to fans that getting on base matters the most. But this obscures the effect on the offense of bases clogged with runners. Its like having a giant grease hairball in the pipe between third and home that even Super Duper Draino can't clear.
What a team really wants not players who walk but players who hit singles and doubles. These should come alternately to avoid clogging the bases since each hit after the first scores a run. And no home runs except with no one on. Home runs kill rallies.
The members of the Sabermetric Cult knocking on doors isn't easy to spot. They've disguised themselves as canvasing Jehovah's Witnesses. But beware. The baseball mind you save will be your own.
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