American - Writer | October 5, 1949 - 1
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
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Baseball does become slow sometimes. It's totally unnecessary. The - you can play baseball fast. You can play it slow, and for some reason, we have chosen to play it slow, you know, which is unfortunate, but nothing you can do about.
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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.
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When people disagree with you, what you ultimately have to do is persuade people to agree with you - period.
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You can't ultimately dodge defeat by winning close elections.
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When I was a small kid, I grew up in the newspapers.
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It's easy for people to grow up in our society believing that certain lifestyles are risk free when they certainly are not.
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There are, I believe, many more false confessions to murders than true confessions.
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If you go to a party populated by the NPR crowd and you start talking about JonBenet Ramsey, people will look at you as if you had forgotten your pants.
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Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do.
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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.
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There comes a moment during a job interview when you're still talking, but you might as well take off your shoes.
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