Nicholas Zettel of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel... well, I better let him explain it:
From Each Team According To Its Wins...
I noticed... that discourse about “Sabermetrics” in America almost perfectly mimics recent discourse about “Communism” in America.
Sounds like someone’s been reading my just-published Sabermetric Manifesto.
Exclusive quotes after the jump!
I have been over into the future, and it’s Andy Dirks! - Pol Pot DePodesta
A single year without winning a World Series is a tragedy, a hundred years is a statistic. - Chad Stalin
The people who cast the Cy Young votes decide nothing. The people who count the Cy Young votes decide everything. - Theo Trotsky
When we beat the Yanquis they will provide us the baseballs we use. - Che Youkilis
Sabermetrics is not love. Sabermetrics is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy. - Mao Tse-Beane
Home run power grows out of the barrel of a bat. - Hugo Hatteberg
You cannot make a revolution with silk batting gloves. - Friedrich Neyer
In hitting against the Tigers, use a long bat. - Fidel Ricciardi
Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a trio of bear cubs contend. - Starlin Castro
My shit doesn’t work; you get layoffs. - Karl Law
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