The jobs are for more similar than you realize. I work with a crap ton of metrics and use them to figure out what decisions to make going forward.

If I'm ever in need of a job, it would be stupid not to at least pursue a job in MLB.

However, I've come a long way in my six years at this job, and I love it. There is no reason to believe I won't continue on this path...and I'd be pretty happy and pretty comfortable further into my 30's and then 40's.

But thank you for your concern when it comes to my employment. I look forward to discussing the ups and downs of your own.

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

No, I said it was a ridiculous statement. I feel like I know a lot about sports though.

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MANY do.

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You know me like that.

Interviewer: Why do you feel you are qualified to run the Detroit Tigers?
IMU: I work with a crap ton of metrics and use them to figure out what decisions to make going forward.
Interviewer: Just what we are looking for! You are hired!

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

I don't think you have the life experience to realize that making light of a primary breadwinner who loses his job is the lowest of the low. I'm lucky to not have experienced it but that gives a family man more nightmares than any monster.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

I doubt IMU could do a better job than MANY, but we shouldn't be so reverent of these jobs that we would think there's no way any of us could ever be in the same stratosphere as these really smart people who hold them, we'll leave that to Bernstein.

management is management

baseball is a little different in that the GM is judged on what would normally be considered HR in any other organization.

I'm sure a good manager in business could run a well run team in the John Mc Donugh mode. The team on the field might stink.

Ted Phillips is the flip side of Mc Donugh

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

When you get down to it there are certainly aspects of all businesses that are the same. I've run a lot of different types of businesses over the years. As a cocky young guy I learned a good lesson when I went into a place and immediately made a bunch of changes to shit I thought was stupid. Within two weeks I was sitting at my desk saying to myself, "Oh, now I understand why they did it that way."

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Matthew, Tulsi, and Don

Why do you assume primary breadwinner?

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

As long as Coop is there, the manager is irrelevant.

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you said some, which includes anyone here who has had that experience

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Look dude... I won't agree with you if you believe I should be completely civil to some who have said some harsh shit about myself and my own views. Not everyone needs to get along and be PC. Nas shared the thought the other day that he feels a lot of people withhold what they want to say due to having met the people here.

That isn't me. Yes, what I said was mean spirited. It was intended to be.

Do you think I want to high five the person that calls me a burrito because of the car I drive? Or criticizes me because I never went to college? Or shits on the music I listen to? No. But I don't cry about it either. I'm completely happy with myself, so that stuff doesn't bother me.

If I say something to someone else and it bothers them...then maybe their facade ain't so sturdy. Not my problem. Speak how you want to be spoken to.

There are going to be posters like Frank that I like, but will definitely fire back when fired upon.

There are going to be posters like SomeGuy that I will constantly fire at whenever possible...and will knock a beer back if I ever learned of his untimely departure from God's green earth.

edit: Corrected ALL of the typos. Had me going there...

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

With enough work most of us probably could be a competent to decent baseball executive. The problem is that thinking you could step in and do it when you have no experience and your knowledge consists of reading fan graphs after you get home from a tough day "analyzing metrics".

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Been there.

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You know me like that.

That's not being PC, that's just not being a douche.

This is like a "I'm sorry I'm TOO honest" facebook post.

There are shots decent human beings don't take against others. People who do get judged by others. It works out that you don't care though.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Be [a] tamale.

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

Heck, I'd bet most of the people actually writing the Fan Graphs content would prefer to be working for an MLB team.

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I just reconnected with my tamale hookup this morning after many years.

I'm very excited. Got a dozen green coming on Friday for Cubs baseball.

It's hard to find a good tamale.

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You know me like that.

Dude?

I am the farthest thing from PC this board has to offer.

Say what you want to say. I'm not asking you to be censored in any way.

I'm providing you some perspective (that maybe you are not responding in kind) and you can do with it what you wish.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

I need a tamale hookup...

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I'm 34 now and would absolutely hate my mid-20's self. I wasn't that unlike IMU, except I graduated college and drove a Buick LeSabre.

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-- source

It will change your life.

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You know me like that.

I was awesome in my mid-20s and drove a Chrysler LeBaron.

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You know me like that.

He likes the girls with a short skirt and a loooooonggggggg jacket.

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Me too, although all I could afford was the hatchback.

Now I'm in my 50s and would kill for how slow my life was in my 20s, when nobody had email and I got maybe three phone calls a day that weren't from friends or family.

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"When people want their version of the truth, they go find it, no matter how baseless their beliefs." -- Ken Rosenthal

Just admit that IMU is the William Faulkner of baseball analysis (except with a crippling lack of intelligence and the self-awareness of a coffee table)!

IMU may not be particularly bright, charismatic, likable, masculine, or good looking, but he is MY GUY!

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

He would be William Faulkner, but he likes his job so he isn't going to change.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!