{"id":30020,"date":"2024-08-15T10:55:05","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T14:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=30020"},"modified":"2024-08-15T11:00:51","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T15:00:51","slug":"the-zman-has-an-excellent-post-on-whats-ailing-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/15\/the-zman-has-an-excellent-post-on-whats-ailing-baseball\/","title":{"rendered":"The ZMan Has an Excellent Post on What&#8217;s Ailing Baseball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ZMan says that the modern quantitative mode of managing a baseball team has robbed the soul out of our national pastime.\u00a0 Well, that and players kneeling during the national anthem and all the other divisive crap they&#8217;ve allowed on field and off.<\/p>\n<p>I like his solution, <strong>&#8220;The answer to fixing baseball and other sports is to open the windows of the skyboxes where the stat guys run the game and throw them out of those windows. 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