Selected Passages
Selected passages
Of all the unfortunate ideas that the geeks had brought to the game, the worst might have been the notion that you could compare a hitter who played his home games in front of the short porch in right at Yankee Stadium and another who played in the shadow of Fenway's Green Monster in left by applying some mathematical formula that adjusted for “park effects." Like so many statistical innovations, this struck Frank as an effort to neutralize reality, sand away all the glorious particularities of life, the things that could not be captured on a spreadsheet, that could be understood only by telling stories about them.
"Everyone lives to take offense these days. Causing offense is the biggest favor you can do them."
"You were brought up by Bible thumpers, but now you're an atheist, because you've got the courage to face up to all the tough truths that the old church ladies can't abide." He seemed for a moment to be preparing some sharp response before saying simply, "Something like that." "So the least sophisticated view of God you can find, that's the real one, and anything else isn't worth arguing with."
The things that can't be proven are the only things worth talking about in the first place