Idiots Write About Sports

Not to beat this thing into the ground, but last night, putting on my Bill Plaschke cap (it pinches a little around the brain stem), I wrote:

Grady Little knows all about the dangers of nerds. He had managed the Boston Red Sox to two winning seasons. He had done everything management asked him to do.
But he was run out of town by a bunch of number-crunching bean-counters who had never played this game, all because he didnit follow their computer-generated plans.
They had numbers saying that Pedro Martinez couldnit be trusted after 100 pitches. Grady Little had his gut

This morning, the real Bill Plaschke wrote:

There was an ex-manager out there who was fired because he trusted instinct over statistic, people over paradigms, baseball over everything…
The baseball folks in Boston may be wincing, but baseball folks everywhere else are smiling, waxing in the rebirth of a good man wronged….
Little’s only other major league managerial experience consisted of two years with the Boston Red Sox, who fired him because of one bad decision he made when the still-cursed franchise was six outs from going to the 2003 World Series.
Going with his gut, his gut failed him, as he left a tiring Pedro Martinez on the mound to face the New York Yankees in the eighth inning with a 5-2 lead. Martinez gave up three runs before the Yankees won it on Aaron Boone’s home run in the 11th.

Of course, I was mocking this bizarre line of thought. Plaschke actually believes this nonsense. So, advantage — me.
One other gem from the real Plaschke’s column:

leaving the Red Sox is generally a good and fortunate thing.
It happened to Babe Ruth. It happened to Roger Clemens. Heck, it has made a saint out of that lucky kid Theo Epstein.

Yup: Theo Epstein — lucky. Man, aren’t we all? Oh, and he’s a kid. You know how Bill Plaschke hates kids. Lousy no-good kids, with their computers and their World Series rings. Get out of here, you kids!