moneyball – Cannonball Read 17

Did not expect to love a book about economics and baseball but here we are

Moneyball by Michael Lewis

October 31, 2021 by Wanderlustful 1 Comment

I know far more about baseball than someone with my level of interest (mild) should. I have favourite players (Mookie Betts and Corey Seager), a lot of thoughts on player hair and facial hair (Cody Bellinger’s haircut, Seager’s unfortunate ‘goatee’) and I even know the team’s GM (Dave Roberts). In short: I live with a baseball fanatic (Dodgers fan, obviously) and have essentially absorbed these things, osmosis style from the many, many games that play in the background to my daily life during baseball season […]

The first thing they always did was run you.

Moneyball by Michael Lewis

October 31, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This book follows Billy Beane, the general manager (money guy, deals, trade, etc) of the Oakland Athletics through a season in the early 2000s as he’s three years in a new approach to baseball using statistical analysis (termed sabremetrics) to have a successful baseball season. Rather than a focus on traditional baseball values and certainly rather than trying to win specific games in micro ways, Beane employed a system of maximizing the benefit of certain parts of baseball, to win as many games over the […]

The world is full of garbage people.

The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis

The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis

October 24, 2019 by thewheelbarrow Leave a Comment

So, I don’t mean the world is full of people made of garbage. I mean that many human beings, too many (though that is probably subjective), are living embodiments of Mos Eisely, wretched hives of scum and villainy. These two books by Michael Lewis are about those people. The Big Short, now a movie that I have not seen, is about the people who, in a way, foresaw the financial recession of 2008 and profited from it. Immensely. Funny though, those people are not the […]

A great book about two things I am terrible at: money and math. #CBRBingo – True Story

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis

October 8, 2019 by narfna Leave a Comment

Smart people who think outside the box are so much fun to read about. I read this book really fast, and it was enjoyable to read the whole way through. I’ve never read a Michael Lewis book before, but I might consider reading more now. He has a simple, clean style that is really efficient at getting his story across, and he has an instinct for the best way to use his material. And he has some great underlying material here. As he notes in […]

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