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The human race has been in a long struggle to eliminate murder. And we will succeed.

~Bill James

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Baseball would be a quite remarkable activity if it was the one place in the world where your co-workers didn't have any impact on how productive you were. But in fact, baseball is a high-stress occupation, and those sort of stress-inducing activities... just have a huge impact on how the team functions, I think.

~Bill James

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Well, stealing bases adds some runs but very few, and you lose most of the runs that you gain by having runners caught stealing.

~Bill James

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Bunting is usually a waste of time. The - generally, yeah, I mean, if you think about it, bunt is the only play in baseball that both sides applaud. The - if the home team bunts, you get a base. The home team applauds because they get an out, and the other team applauds because they get a base. So what does that tell you?

~Bill James

Topics: About Applaud Base Baseball Because Both Both Sides Does Generally Get Home Mean Only Other Out Play Sides Team Tell Think Time Waste Waste Of Time Yeah You

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Baseball does become slow sometimes. It's totally unnecessary. The - you can play baseball fast. You can play it slow, and for some reason, we have chosen to play it slow, you know, which is unfortunate, but nothing you can do about.

~Bill James

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If a candidate for office starts talking about thinning the deer population or investing in barriers to reduce the number of deer on the highways, the other side will probably just ignore him, because they're not going to know what to say about it. But there is a chance that the issue will resonate with voters in an unexpected way.

~Bill James

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When people disagree with you, what you ultimately have to do is persuade people to agree with you - period.

~Bill James

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You can't ultimately dodge defeat by winning close elections.

~Bill James

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When I was a small kid, I grew up in the newspapers.

~Bill James

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Crime cases tend to be fascinating until you figure out what happened.

~Bill James

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: October 5th, 1949

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