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Wednesday, December 10, 2008

The right thing for the wrong reason?

Keith Law is a smart cookie, and today on his personal blog, he made a pretty sharp observation in connection with being admitted to the BBWAA:

I am still unclear on why, exactly, I might need to be a member; after conversations with probably a dozen current members, I think the opposite is true - the BBRAA needed people like me, Rob, etc. as members, to try to boost their credibility as an organization in a time when they receive so much criticism for the backwardness and outright hostility towards intelligent analysis (statistical or scouting) displayed in so much mainstream writing, to say nothing of the RBI/wins fetish in BBRAA voting.

I think that's right. I also think that doing the right thing for cynical reasons still counts as doing the right thing, so let's call it a wash.

Posted by Craig Calcaterra at 8:40pm


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Aaron said...

Eh, I’ll take what I can get. As time goes on, the RBI/wins crowd will thin out and be replaced.

Posted 12/10  at  11:01 PM
Greg Tamer said...

So who from THT is applying next year?

Posted 12/11  at  10:12 AM
Craig Calcaterra said...

The little baseball playing gif guy at the top of the page.

Posted 12/11  at  10:35 AM
Dave Studeman said...

Hey Tamer, want to be our BBWAA rep?

Posted 12/11  at  03:52 PM
Greg Tamer said...

Sure, but I want the THT corporate jet each month for one weekend.  I think you and Treder can sacrifice that much for me.

Posted 12/11  at  09:58 PM
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