I was a huge fan of the site FireJoeMorgan.com. It was funny, biting snark criticism of terrible sports writing and broadcasting. It was the perfect place to go in a time when “Moneyball” and “SABERmetrics” were starting to hit the mainstream, and old timers were not happy about it.
Countless articles were decrying teams like the Oakland A’s and Billy Beane for how stupid he was and how cheap they were, and how they couldn’t possible hope to win by getting rid of all their big name players. The arguments revolved around conventional wisdom, stats like Batting Average and RBI, and a whole lot of terms like “grit”, “the will to win”, and “intangibles”.