Morgan and Moneyball (the short version)

I just wrote a lengthy post describing how little baseball analyst Joe Morgan understands about the "moneyball" approach and how often he's ill-informed and wrong. And then Blogger ate it. So much for the new Recover post feature.

Anyway, since I don't feel like writing it up all again, here's the most important part.

After insisting (without any evidence or argument) that the Red Sox are not a moneyball team, Morgan then admitted that he has not, in fact, read Moneyball. That's right. Joe Morgan, a guy whose job it is to talk about baseball, hasn't read the most popular baseball book in years, yet presumes to know all about it. He doesn't have a clue, of course, as his arguments about moneyball reveal, but that doesn't stop him from talking nonsense.

Joe Morgan's a crappy baseball announcer who's stuck in the past and refuses to consider new approaches to baseball. The sooner people stop listening to him, the better.