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I do have a family, and obviously I spend as much time as I can with them. Though even when I'm with my family, my mind tends to drift toward baseball.
- Bill James
#Baseball
#Family
#I Can
#Mind
#Time
Do we need to have 280 brands of breakfast cereal? No, probably not. But we have them for a reason - because some people like them. It's the same with baseball statistics.
- Bill James
#Breakfast
#People
#Reason
#Statistics
Well, stealing bases adds some runs but very few, and you lose most of the runs that you gain by having runners caught stealing.
- Bill James
#Caught
#Gain
#Lose
#Stealing
#Well
There are many things that you can't measure. But the great fun of what I do for a living is figuring out ways to measure things that people previously considered intangible.
- Bill James
#Fun
#Great
#Living
#Measure
#People
You can't ultimately dodge defeat by winning close elections.
- Bill James
#Close
#Defeat
#Dodge
#Elections
#Winning
None of us are claiming that the statistical analysts understand the game of football as well as the football coaches do, or that our analysis should take precedence over the informed opinions of experts. I'm not saying that at all.
- Bill James
#Football
#Game
#Opinions
#Understand
#Us
I would never encourage my children to be athletes - first because my children are not athletes and second because there are so many people pushing to get to the top in sports that 100 people are crushed for each one who breaks through. This is unfortunate.
- Bill James
#Children
#Never
#People
#Sports
#Through
Crime shapes how we think about the world; it shapes social decisions that we make; it shapes our base of knowledge. But we don't talk about it intelligently.
- Bill James
#About
#Knowledge
#Social
#Talk
#World
In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example.
- Bill James
#Bed
#Details
#Example
#Important
#Story
I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.
- Bill James
#Asking Questions
#Better
#Questions
Professionalism in medicine has given us medial miracles for the affluent but hospitals that will charge $35 for aspirin.
- Bill James
#Medicine
#Miracles
#Professionalism
#Us
Bunting is usually a waste of time. The - generally, yeah, I mean, if you think about it, bunt is the only play in baseball that both sides applaud. The - if the home team bunts, you get a base. The home team applauds because they get an out, and the other team applauds because they get a base. So what does that tell you?
- Bill James
#Baseball
#Home
#Mean
#Play
#Time
It's extremely damaging to a fair trial to have people reaching judgment about the case in the newspapers and on the radio before the facts are heard in a case.
- Bill James
#About
#Facts
#Fair
#People
#Radio
Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do.
- Bill James
#Computers
#Like
#Only
#People
#Tell
If a candidate for office starts talking about thinning the deer population or investing in barriers to reduce the number of deer on the highways, the other side will probably just ignore him, because they're not going to know what to say about it. But there is a chance that the issue will resonate with voters in an unexpected way.
- Bill James
#Chance
#Ignore
#Unexpected
#Way
#Will
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