SECTION 331

So I am still in the midst of reading Moneyball. I usually read before I fall asleep, and lately falling asleep hasn’t been much of an issue, so I’m reading it literally one or two pages at a time. I’m currently around the chapter(s) talking about the invention of metrics and early SABR in relation to “rotisserie leagues” or what sounds like it eventually became fantasy baseball. It’s funny to read that book and realize that I know more about that stuff than either I like to admit or think I do – the issue is that I just don’t know enough to argue it.

One of the things I struggle with in my daily writing exercises is the ability to explain something I’ve just seen during a game in a way that doesn’t involve “That was awesome!” While pointing out that something was awesome is all very fine and well, it’s not terribly articulate, and it doesn’t fully explain why something was awesome, or why it was any more awesome than the last awesome thing that happened. A lot of the time I feel like most of my posts here are just more in-depth and polite (read; no swearing) versions of my posts on LL gamechat – though I haven’t completely collapsed into just posting “WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!” quite yet. Again, not that there is anything wrong with that, I just prefer sounding like I know what I’m talking about, since I pay for and spend time trying to make this site entertaining for whomever might be reading it (and trying to keep myself busy writing about baseball, because I love it so).

So I get metrics, I get what I see, but it is hard for me to fuse those together into something that anyone who didn’t know about baseball might like to read – it’s hard for me to fuse it into something that I can understand or would even like to read. I have to go over these posts at least once to check for spelling and redundancies, and fear that if I put too many numbers in, I may lose interest in proofreading, and before I know what’s happening, the entire thing will slide downhill, and I’ll find it easier to just go back to arguing with people half my age about whether or not old or new Ministry is better, and if “With Sympathy” even counts as a Ministry album. And nobody wants that, least of all me. So I’ll have to keep on keepin’ on, as they said in the….70s(?)…and maybe eventually I’ll reach a point where numbers will be easy, and fun for me, and it will be fun for me to try and communicate them to others. Until then, you get “That was awesome!”

I’ll keep trying, and I hope people will keep reading, or at least keep stumbling on this site on accident, while searching for seats in Section 331 at Yankee Stadium….