Comments on FIRE JOE MORGAN: Heady Days

Food Acronyms is now a label. Congrats, Murbles.

2008-04-13T20:13:00.000-04:00

Food Acronyms is now a label. Congrats, Murbles.

F a "liberal use of 'food metaphors' label." This ...

2008-04-12T14:12:00.000-04:00

F a "liberal use of 'food metaphors' label." This is a perfect opportunity to begin the era of the "food based acronyms" label! Catch the fever!

Couple things:in response to those of you who requ...

2008-04-12T02:10:00.000-04:00

Couple things:

in response to those of you who requested the coveted "Food Metaphors" label due to either (a) "salad days" or (b) "ABAB," I say: these are not, strictly speaking, metaphors. However, we like to reward those who keep an eye out for coveted "food metaphors label" opportunities, so I am going to tag this with the less-coveted 'liberal use of food metaphors label" label.

Second, many of you sent in this better example of sabermetrics-style approaches to soccer:

http://fannation.com/blogs/post/173648

"Better" because it actually involved Billy Beane himself getting interested in the subject.

hey guys, it's me. what's been going on? anyway,...

2008-04-10T19:34:00.000-04:00

hey guys, it's me. what's been going on? anyway, shouldn't "a Beer And a Brat" be ABAAB? kinda sad that he had us wait for this gem and then flubbed it anyway. okay, cool, see you guys later.

Also -- and this is a giant "no shit, dude" -- but...

2008-04-10T18:10:00.000-04:00

Also -- and this is a giant "no shit, dude" -- but writing about stats and writing about the "humanistic" side of the game don't have to be mutually exclusive. Anyone who's read an ounce of Bill James knows this.