Chad Moriyama Dodgers, Sabermetrics, Scouting
Dodger Thoughts: Jon Weisman asks how much you would pay to watch the Dodgers. I think it’s a great question.
Personally, I answered: $1, $5, $10, $500.
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Baseball Prospectus: Dash Treyhorn analyzes how the perception of Charlie Manuel has evolved, primarily due to winning.
Sometimes I wonder if the same would be possible with Ned Colletti. We’ve already seen how people think he’s solid because he won with all the homegrown talent he was provided and another GM’s players, so I can’t help but think that if Stan Kasten helps turn the ship around with Colletti still on board, it would completely change the way most people look at him.
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Deadspin: A youth baseball coach was arrested for threatening a parent with a gun. Thought it was an appropriately timed story given my article on coaches.
Gawker: Is Jose Canseco even writing his own crazy tweets? Probably not, which is even more reason we shouldn’t give a shit about him.
On Colletti, of course. I’m reminded of two adages:
Winners write the history.
Winning papers over a lot of problems.
As you say, Colletti is already viewed favourably by pretty much all the casual fans. Even amongst critics of his many have defended him by saying that he’s been handcuffed by the disastrous ownership of McCourt. Both of these things are patently untrue and so easy to disprove yet that is the general perception of Colletti. That’s why he needs to go NAO.
My answers to the survey were…
$2.50, $5, $25, $250
I picked higher on the first three because this is the MOST I would be willing to spend if I had no access to see games any other way. The last one I could not see shelling out any more than $250/year for content in one lump amount…although I’m sure that would possibly change if I was actually sitting in a situation where I had zero ability to watch a game, especially if I was actually paying day by day for content…that shit would add up before you know it.
I figured I generally watch around 150 games a year, and I run a blog, so I would probably have to fit 500 in.