#baseball

Any one game in baseball doesn't tell you that much, just as any one poll doesn't tell you that much. ↗

— Nate Silver

#baseball #game #just #much #poll

I don't play fantasy baseball anymore now because it's too much work, and I feel like I have to hold myself up to such a high standard. I'm pretty serious about my fantasy football, though. ↗

— Nate Silver

#anymore #baseball #because #fantasy #feel

I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's when I discovered politics. ↗

— Nate Silver

#competition #data #discovered #i #like

In baseball you have terrific data and you can be a lot more creative with it. ↗

— Nate Silver

#creative #data #lot #more #terrific

Baseball must be a great game to survive the fools who run it. ↗

— Bill Terry

#fools #game #great #must #run

There are several insights at the heart of the A's system that I think are wonderful for baseball. One, that it's a team game. That no one player is going to make that much of a difference to your team, so for god's sake don't go blow a quarter of your budget on one guy. ↗

— Michael Lewis

#blow #budget #difference #game #go

Believe it or not the war on Iraq is based on a sound scientific principle, The bee hive principle. Which clearly states that if you are stung by a bee, you should follow it back to its nest and then proceed to beat nest to a pulp with a baseball bat until the stripey little turd has learned its lesson. ↗

— John Oliver

#hilarious #baseball

I couldn't picture myself with a boyfriend, but if I had to, I envisioned a nice normal guy who turned in his math homework on time and maybe even played rec baseball. ↗

— Becca Fitzpatrick

#baseball

As I grew up, I knew that as a building (Fenway Park) was on the level of Mount Olympus, the Pyramid at Giza, the nation's capitol, the czar's Winter Palace, and the Louvre — except, of course, that is better than all those inconsequential places ↗

— Bart Giamatti

#red-sox #baseball

A no-hitter is a freaky thing,' Tweet said. 'Most of the greatest pitchers never pitched one. It's a combination of a lot of little accidents. ↗

— Duane Decker

#baseball