01-12-2010, 10:43 PM
What do the Cubs have to gain from having a feel good story right before the Cubs convention? Will it add people to the waiting list for season tickets? Will it get them over the 3 million attendenance mark? Will it help them dominate the White Sox in television and radio ratings?
Or, could the Maddux hire be because he was considered the most cerebral player of his time, and has exprressed an interest in getting into the front office of the game he mastered? It wasn't just that he has a great library of scouting reports on older players. He recognized strengths and weaknesses, and new how to exploit the latter and deal with the former. If he were to spend ten years in the Cubs broadcast booth, the reaction to his arrival in the front office would be applauded. My appologies to the new wave stat crowd who believe that MIT in your resume would trump the twenty plus years of professional baseball experience that Maddux has accumulated, but you are taking yourselves way too seriously. To even think that every major league organization does not have access to, and use on a daily basis statistics that would blow the minds of any propeller head is either huburis or ignorance but more likely equal parts of both.
Or, could the Maddux hire be because he was considered the most cerebral player of his time, and has exprressed an interest in getting into the front office of the game he mastered? It wasn't just that he has a great library of scouting reports on older players. He recognized strengths and weaknesses, and new how to exploit the latter and deal with the former. If he were to spend ten years in the Cubs broadcast booth, the reaction to his arrival in the front office would be applauded. My appologies to the new wave stat crowd who believe that MIT in your resume would trump the twenty plus years of professional baseball experience that Maddux has accumulated, but you are taking yourselves way too seriously. To even think that every major league organization does not have access to, and use on a daily basis statistics that would blow the minds of any propeller head is either huburis or ignorance but more likely equal parts of both.
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