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There’s a complexity that not many people are talking about...Many baseball players are not that smart. I can have deep conversations with Doolittle, Hale, Henley and some others- they’re smart guys. When you talk to them they get it. You see this in Doolittle’s comments about Trea’s twitter screw up where he’s like- guys you don’t recognize how the public sees us or who the public is. But I spoke to... a few of players in 2014 and I walked away like- oh man these guys are stupid- I mean really brain dead- two players aren’t with the Nats anymore. I was always concerned about Werth saying the wrong thing, but in the end I never had a conversation with him and just don’t know the guy. One guy I spoke to was really nice to my kids but his eyes were blank- nothing behind them at all— Then later I find out he was a member of a cult church. And these are the kinds of players who get caught up in these scandals because they can’t see two feet ahead of them. For people who have normal managerial or executive jobs where you need a finance background, you can look at the home/away splits and it’s obvious because we do that math daily, but they’re like- “am I tipping my pitches?” I’ve noticed that people make fun of the Twitter Detectives sometimes, and so do I, but this looks more and more like some really stupid jocks in TX who have no idea that Sabremetrics is going to cost them their careers... and more and more I say to myself- how dumb are these guys?
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