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Originally posted by Not Bob
Fantastic book. Michael Lewis is a wonderful writer. Too bad he wrote it before Theo Epstein took over as GM in Boston -- I'd love to hear Lewis's perspective on what happened when a sabermetrics believer got to use the system on a high-payroll team.
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I took the Economics of Sports in college. Mainly in an attempt to avoid all unnecessary micro courses. Did well on the curve. Might have had a thing or two to do with the number of football players who signed up. As I recall, at the time (which was a long time ago, so let's not go there) MLB economics were pretty fucked up, even in light of collective bargaining, and the players were not getting even close to what they were earning for the owners.
I've give it a read if you promise it is nothing like the baseball, baseball, baseball thread here.
