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29 May

Joe PosnanskiKorrents 29 May

From one piece We Don't Really Know Baseball 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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It is possible that in 25 years, people will look back and laugh at the idea that launch angles and swinging for the fences were the way to win.

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But it's worth remembering that we probably don't have baseball figured out, that 25 years from now we might look back and laugh at the idea that anyone ever thought launch angles and swinging for the fences and playing station to station baseball was the way to win.

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The RBI is a wildly overrated individual statistic because it is context-driven.

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The RBI is a wildly overrated individual statistic because it's context-driven.

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Humans always believe they know more about the world, the universe, and themselves than they actually do.

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This is because we always think we know more about the world than we do, about the universe than we do, about OURSELVES than we do. That's the human experience.

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18 March

Joe PosnanskiKorrents 18 Mar

From one piece Freedom for What? 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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The U.S. team's approach to the World Baseball Classic was overly militaristic and missed the point of the game.

America

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A lot has been written about the militaristic vibe this team disseminated (undoubtedly WITH the express written consent of Major League Baseball), but one thing that really struck me was how wrong they got it.

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Even if MLB's season format looks archaic, it is working for a lot of people.

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You could argue, I suppose, that this is an archaic design that no longer matches the American attention span (or the durability of pitchers' elbows), but 70-plus million people attend the games annually, and baseball is the No. 1 show on television in many local markets throughout the summer, so it's working for a lot of people and, anyway, the format ain't changing.

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Major League Baseball has lost the sense of joy that the World Baseball Classic possesses.

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I think there's something the WBC has unlocked that Major League Baseball, mostly, has not. It's that three-letter word again: Joy.

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16 March

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From one piece Losing the Humanity of Umpiring 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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The last bit of humanity in baseball will begin to disappear with the Automated Ball Strike challenge system coming in 2026.

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But, of course, human umpires WILL NOT call the runner safe because they are bound by instant replay. So the humanity of umpiring has already been taken out of the game ... except for ball-strike calls. And with the Automated Ball Strike challenge system coming in 2026, that last bit of humanity will begin to disappear.

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The humanity of umpiring may involve human beings embracing superseding concepts.

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I suppose if that question has an answer, it would be that human beings can embrace what my favorite chess content creator, Levy Rozman, calls "superseding concepts." That is to say that an umpire can take into account the situation, the conditions, the flow of the game, the importance of the moment, the spirit of the rule, and make a call based on all of it, rather than just embracing the microscopic difference between safe and out, strike and ball.

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9 February

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From one piece The Ubiquity (and Wonder) of Hot Takes 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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Hot takes make people dumber by flattening thought into emotion and reducing complex topics to two screaming sides.

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I hate them for many reasons, but mostly because they make us dumber. They flatten thought into emotion. They turn curiosity into bland certainty. They take things that are worth thinking about, worth talking about, worth arguing about, and reduce them to two screaming sides and zero listening.

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The Super Bowl halftime show by Bad Bunny was the best in history, even better than Prince's.

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That was the best Super Bowl Halftime Show ever, better even than Prince's Halftime Show, which I was in the stadium to see.

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23 January

Joe PosnanskiKorrents 23 Jan

From one piece Why Baseball Just Doesn't Feel Fair 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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Baseball offers teams with less talent a better opportunity to win on any given day than other American team sports.

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For another, I believe that baseball - like soccer - offers teams with less talent a better opportunity to win on any given day than the other American team sports.

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Baseball is more unfair than other sports due to extreme franchise valuation disparities.

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You will notice right away that the structure is so much more extreme than any other sport. The top franchise in baseball is worth 381% - essentially four times more - than the median. And the least valuable franchise is worth 57% (a little more than half) of the median. This is why baseball feels unfair. Because baseball IS unfair.

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21 January

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From one piece Weighing Morality in the Hall of Fame 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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The vast majority of baseball writers do not want the Hall of Fame to serve as a morality play.

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I feel confident in saying that the vast majority of writers don't want the Hall of Fame plaque room to be the morality play that it has become. They want it to be a hall of the best baseball players who ever lived.

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Most baseball writers believe the Hall of Fame should feature the greatest players regardless of their personal flaws or transgressions.

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I believe that the writers - well, the sizable majority of writers - given enough time and freedom, would shape the Baseball Hall of Fame to be about baseball. They would like the Baseball Hall of Fame to feature all the greatest players, no matter their flaws, no matter their transgressions, no matter their crimes or misdemeanors.

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The Baseball Hall of Fame aims to reflect the romance and sanctity of baseball.

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The Hall of Fame wants the plaque room to reflect the romance and sanctity of baseball.

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