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"Bill James is NOT perfect!"

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Blogger Luke said...

Damn you have a memory! Seems like an unfair advantage over us mere mortals!

6/19/07, 11:09 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Once i had a summer job and i was getting a ride home with one of my co-workers who happened to be mexican.He somehow mentioned that Cookie Rojas was his uncle! Imagine my excitement,knowing full well that I had a Cookie Rojas card when i was a kid!

6/19/07, 2:18 PM

Blogger ricpic said...

"Oh my God, I've wasted my life!"

Welcome to the human race.

6/19/07, 4:32 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Steve:

If it's the same book that I'm finding on Amazon (and the price tracks), it was published in late 2001. I'd argue that the real rage (Bad Barry, BALCO, Congress) on steroids didn't start until Canseco's book. (although the andro debate raged on...)

Are you faulting James for PC-ness for not spoiling the '98 party or are you faulting him for not being clairvoyant?

6/19/07, 10:43 PM

Blogger Steve Sailer said...

Yes, I am accusing Bill James of ignoring the elephant in the living room of baseball.

Crowds in Boston chanted "Ster-oids-Ster-oids" at Jose Canseco during the 1988 playoffs and Thomas Boswell accused him of being a user in 10-88. A friend of mine who is a baseball player's agent was telling me in 1993 that they were getting widespread. After Stephen Jay Gould wrote a WSJ op-ed in 1998 about how McGwire and Sosa had brought the innocence back to the game, I sent Gould a fax saying that andro had already been discovered McGwire's locker and Sosa had a lot of telltale signs.

I was a lot less connected than James but I could see what was happening. Maybe it was because James was too connected (he got a job with the Red Sox right after this book was written) that he didn't want to mention it.

6/19/07, 11:18 PM

Anonymous aceflyer said...

The drug "Andro" was a big national sports media discussion topic during the McGwire/Sosa home run chase in 1998. Maybe it wasn't as big as it is today. Maybe it wasn't an all-consuming topic like the O.J. trial. But I distinctly recall it being talked about. McGwire was peppered with questions about it in locker room interviews.

6/20/07, 12:31 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

fter Stephen Jay Gould wrote a WSJ op-ed in 1998 about how McGwire and Sosa had brought the innocence back to the game

Haha. Leave it to Gould to be wildly wrong on everything.

6/20/07, 2:51 PM

Anonymous Rex Little said...

Those second basemen aren't obscure. I'm familiar with all of them. They all had at least a season or two worthy of All-Star consideration, except maybe Clarke (whose name, BTW, is spelled with an e at the end).

6/21/07, 7:20 PM

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