Over this past weekend, Trevor Crowe said something that made me think:
The first thing it made me think: Trevor Crowe has an iPad? That’s really neat. Maybe I should get me one of those…
It also made me think: Why the quotation marks? Does Trevor Crowe not believe that numbers actually exist? That they are so ethereal they must be referred to with scare quotes? Have numbers become, after all this, scary?
Then I got down to the meat of his comment. Namely, that people like me are dorks who don’t wear jocks. At least not for their intended purpose. And for that reason, no one should be casting any aspersions on Orlando Cabrera’s play this season.
His argument, of course, is that if you were to judge Orlando Cabrera on his numbers—those things that are measurable—you will miss all of the things that he brings to the table that aren’t measurable. I assume he’s talking about Cabrera’s leadership or his intelligence or his grit or his enthusiasm.* Let’s just lump these things...
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