Baseballminutia

Derrek Dickey stops by to talk about the Reds staff:

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Reading comments about managers I decided two things,

1. That the consideration of managers was one of the most backward, most cliché-ridden and least valuable discussions within the sports forum.

And

2. I‘m not helping.

Bill James 1985

One common thread in the game is that most managers are not innocent bystanders, they participate in the game and like chess baseball is a silent game that each manager asserts that his teams manner of winning is the best method to win games.

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