TLR on Moneyball

[Banedon]

Probably could've put this in another thread, but I really didn't want it to get lost in the shuffle...

 

Tony LaRussa was asked why he put Berkman in LF and Allen Craig in RF for Game 3 on Sunday night....

 

“It’s my tribute to Moneyball. I’m not a big Moneyball fan. I have this little place, don’t have a big place. So what we do is we take the square footage between the right field line and center field and the square footage and from left field to center field, divide that by pi and we multiply it by bulls***, and then we pick the dugout. The field that’s closest to the dugout and that’s where Lance plays.”

[Sammy Sofa]

Holy [expletive], that man is so [expletive] drunk.

[SouthSideRyan]

http://cheesesteakswithbarkley.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/tony-larussa-eye.jpg

 

Never gets old.

[OleMissCub]

He is loathsome.

[Tracer Bullet]

No one knows as much about anything as TLR knows about everything.

[Post Count Padder]

That's one of the most asinine things I've ever heard anyone say. I hope even the crickets refused to chirp after that one.

[SouthSideRyan]

That's one of the most asinine things I've ever heard anyone say. I hope even the crickets refused to chirp after that one.

 

I'm sure Buzz Bissinger was yukking it up at that one.

[UMFan83]

He's right, what a stupid book. How could Billy Beane write that garbage?

[jersey cubs fan]

He's right, what a stupid book. How could Billy Beane write that garbage?

 

He didn't write it, he built the computer that wrote the book on its own.

[KingKongvs.Godzilla]

That was actually pretty funny. Multiply it by [expletive]...lol.

 

*ducks*

 

It is something of a sin to knock MoneyBall concepts nowadays, isn't it? I think it's gone as far as being described as an attack on intellectualism.

[Guest]

That's because Moneyball's only concept is "exploit inefficiencies". To knock that is to be ignorant.

[KingKongvs.Godzilla]

That's because Moneyball's only concept is "exploit inefficiencies". To knock that is to be ignorant.

 

Yes, but let's not pretend to not get what he's saying and that the book didn't play a part in the rise of what he's mocking.

 

He could easily have said, "well, he's not actually a good RF, and LF is where you play a bad defender/good bat when 1B is occupied." It's rational, but not as funny.

Edited October 5, 2011 by KingKongvs.Godzilla

[Sammy Sofa]

What is he mocking?

[KingKongvs.Godzilla]

What is he mocking?

 

Herp I don't know. Probably intelligence or herpes or alcohol consumption or death or sumpin derp.

[imb]

stop talking forever

[minnesotacubsfan]

+1

[toonsterwu]

I have to say ... I had a really good laugh. I don't care for TLR, but that was sort of ... funny ... in a way.

[Guest]

I have to say ... I had a really good laugh. I don't care for TLR, but that was sort of ... funny ... in a way.

 

 

Funny in a "laugh at him because he is an unfunny moron and I can't believe he actually said that" sort of way.

[KingKongvs.Godzilla]

stop talking forever

 

Lol stop being mad over invisible [expletive].

 

What Tony LaRussa, manager of the Cardinals and enemy of the Cubs and humanity said in that instance was funny.

[Sammy Sofa]

I'm still curious as to what "rise" you think he's mocking so well.

 

And your posts aren't invisible, unfortunately.

[TruffleShuffle]

And your posts aren't invisible, unfortunately.

 

you're doing it wrong

[javy knows my name]

That was actually pretty funny. Multiply it by [expletive]...lol.

 

*ducks*

 

It is something of a sin to knock MoneyBall concepts nowadays, isn't it? I think it's gone as far as being described as an attack on intellectualism.

 

Why are you the worst?

[bcl412]

Why do people get so mad at this book?

[17 Seconds]

Why do people get so mad at this book?

 

because for the dinosaurs think this book kind of proves that everything they've always believed isn't really true

[KingKongvs.Godzilla]

Why do people get so mad at this book?

 

It was the fun debate making baseball interesting, as opposed to the other major issue (steroids) which was really pretend hurting baseball.

 

It was a relevant book in baseball history, they made a movie about it, the movie is really good and just came out, and he made a pretty good joke out of it. How is multiply it by bullshitnot not funny?