FanGraphs Audio: Dave Cameron on All General Managers
Episode 591
Dave Cameron is both (a) the managing editor of FanGraphs and (b) the guest on this particular edition of FanGraphs Audio, during which edition he discusses the dismissal by the Seattle Mariners of general manager Jack Zduriencik, certain comments by Dodgers general manager Andrew Friedman regarding defensive metrics, and the interaction inside a person between team allegiance and the analytical impulse.
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Audio after the jump. (Approximately 43 min play time.)
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Carson Cistulli has published a book of aphorisms called Spirited Ejaculations of a New Enthusiast.
I don’t need to hear about Cameron being in a prostate position
What I hear you saying is you’d prefer photographic evidence of it, instead.
I’ll leave it to the discretion of the progr’m’s host, but I blame Cameron’s existence for the declining use of the word:
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