Tasty Twinkies
The Blue Jays host the Twins tonite at Skydome, I will write more about it after the game.

My big interest today is Moneyball from Michael Lewis, yes the book has been out for ages and yes it's been hashed out more often then a college dorm party, but it is still worth talking about.

The new edition which I picked up on the weekend has an additional Afterword that was written earlier this year. He talks about the backlash from the book, how people (like the cranky Joe Morgan) who never read the book assume Billy Beane wrote it and just has a giant sized ego. Well the ego part is correct, he knows he is smart and doesn't suffer fools lightly, which is perfectly ok, in fact, more people need to be like that. Lewis was shocked that so many people missunderstood the book and what it was about, the book wasn't about Billy Beane, it was about a new way of evaluating baseball players, Beane just had to be a prominent character.

For those that haven't read the book yet, I urge all of you to go out and pick it up, it is insightful, funny and an extremely good read. In fact, buy two copies because I am sure you will wear the first one out.
17 May 2004 by Rivux