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From: tom dunne on 22 Mar 2010 12:55
On Mar 22, 12:22 pm, John Kasupski <w2...(a)spamfilter.verizon.net>
wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 09:40:03 -0400, David Short
>
>
>
> <David.No.Sho...(a)Spam.wright.Please.edu> wrote:
> >On 3/22/2010 8:16 AM, Ron Johnson wrote:
> >> On Mar 21, 4:12 pm, "David Short"
> >> <David.No.Sh...(a)Spam.Wright.Please.Edu>  wrote:
> >>> I know several of you think James is the devil incarnate. I thought you
> >>> might be interested in this interview. He writes better than he interviews.
>
> >> Might be as simple as being shy. At least that's how he came off when
> >> I ran into him at the Toronto SABR.
>
> >> There are always a few strange answers in any interview. I'm pretty
> >> sure it's his way of saying, "Dumb question". He really need Crash
> >> to teach him his cliches.
>
> >I wasn't trying to be overly critical of the interview. I thought it
> >showed what he's like. In person, he was extremely humble and self
> >effacing when I met him at a conference 18 years ago.
>
> >John K in particular seems to think that James is some sort of self
> >promoting bozo and I thought he might want to see a different side.
>
> I don't recall having ever said anything about Bill James' character. I've said
> that I don't necessarily buy into what the countless hordes of math geeks who
> have followed in his footsteps have concluded about the game of baseball. Nor do
> I discount it all...but note James' comments in that interview with CTR relative
> to what Bill Lajoie talks about here:

The math geeks would argue that the hordes are clearly countable - you
just need to use the proper formula ;)
From: David Short on 22 Mar 2010 13:00
On 3/22/2010 12:22 PM, John Kasupski wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 09:40:03 -0400, David Short
>> John K in particular seems to think that James is some sort of self
>> promoting bozo and I thought he might want to see a different side.
>
> I don't recall having ever said anything about Bill James' character.
Perhaps I've misremembered. Perhaps you've softened with age. I'm not
going to go google hunting. :)

> I've said
> that I don't necessarily buy into what the countless hordes of math geeks who
> have followed in his footsteps have concluded about the game of baseball.
I don't think any of the active participants of this newsgroup fall in
that category.

> Nor do
> I discount it all...but note James' comments in that interview with CTR relative
> to what Bill Lajoie talks about here:
>
> http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20100319&content_id=8847084&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb

Yup. Exactly.

dfs
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