Well, stealing bases adds some runs but very few, and you lose most of the runs that you gain by having runners caught stealing.
Bill JamesThere comes a moment during a job interview when you're still talking, but you might as well take off your shoes.
Bill JamesBecause crime stories reveal an aspect of our personality that everybody has, but which we normally keep very deeply hidden. We like to talk about the good sides of ourselves. We don't like to talk about our hatreds, our distrusts of one another, our secrets, but crime stories drag those things to the surface and consequently they fascinate people and always have throughout all history.
Bill James