Gah! It's almost unbearable to see the Blackhawks succeed in a league with even greater parity. Frankly, the Cubs should be dominating the NL, moreover the NL Central, the way the Hawks dominated this year. Prudent leadership and a big city budget would have the Cubs in first.
Take heart, though. In 2005, Stu Sternberg bought the Tampa Bay (then Devil) Rays and replaced everyone with stat-heads and financial sector guys. Then, by 2008, they were one of the top 3 teams in all of baseball.
If Ricketts decides to clean house this off-season and then "Sternberg" the front office (i.e. hire people like us), the new administration would be coming in with a much stronger base than Andrew Friedman (Rays), Billy Bean (As), or Theo Epstein (BoSox) ever had.
Put simply, it is the form of statistical analysis Chicago sports teams should be using. Instead, like the turn of the century days of Mordecai "Three Finger" Brown, the fans, the pundits, and at times even the organization appear to rely on statistical tools more than a century old: batting average, earned run average, and wins and losses. Sabermetrics is a combination of economics, statistics, and hardy logic -- best taken with a tankard of open-mindedness.
This blog, therefore, is an attempt to show that fans of Chicago Sports refuse to abide by primitive analysis a moment longer. It is a call to reasoning and in-depth statistical investigation, to optimized management of team resources, and to congenial debate about the means of achieving success.
Above all, go Cubs! Go White Sox! Go Bears! Go Bulls! Go Blackhawks! And go Fire!
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Gah! It's almost unbearable to see the Blackhawks succeed in a league with even greater parity. Frankly, the Cubs should be dominating the NL, moreover the NL Central, the way the Hawks dominated this year. Prudent leadership and a big city budget would have the Cubs in first.
ReplyDeleteIt's not just a little frustrating.
I know!!! That's what makes this (the Blackhawks winning it all) so special while we look at the Cubs with steaming frustration.
ReplyDeleteWhen I first moved to Chicago this franchise was D-E-A-D and they turned it around and won it all in 3 years...pretty remarkable.
Meanwhile the Cubs disappoint and it looks more like we'll have to deal with yet another rebuilding phase.
Take heart, though. In 2005, Stu Sternberg bought the Tampa Bay (then Devil) Rays and replaced everyone with stat-heads and financial sector guys. Then, by 2008, they were one of the top 3 teams in all of baseball.
ReplyDeleteIf Ricketts decides to clean house this off-season and then "Sternberg" the front office (i.e. hire people like us), the new administration would be coming in with a much stronger base than Andrew Friedman (Rays), Billy Bean (As), or Theo Epstein (BoSox) ever had.