Flat Earth Society

Jay Jaffe has a nice full-on rant about some people at ESPN and their idiocy on OBP. There's a lot of good stuff there, like a run expectancy chart, and Jaffe's right.

I enjoy the anti-sabermetric backlash. We need to debate these things, and having all kinds of views on the new ideas is the quickest way to weed the weak ones from the strong ones.

FWIW, I rarely watch Baseball Tonight. It doesn't interest me. I haven't seen it since last season, and Jaffe's article does nothing to convince me that I'm missing anything. Give me games, games, and more games, and give me box scores to read and beat writers to read.