Letting him manage in the major leagues is like sending Bo Derek through cellblock A without a bodyguard.
Bill JamesIt is a very long and very difficult road from a fact to a conclusion. But it is a million times longer from a theory to a fact.
Bill JamesThere comes a moment during a job interview when you're still talking, but you might as well take off your shoes.
Bill JamesTelevision is full of fictional and real violence that's turned into entertainment. It's an interesting phenomena and I tried to put it in perspective and tried to think through a few of the real questions that this sometimes unseemly business raises.
Bill JamesMen feel challenged when a woman is in danger, so those types of stories interest women and they interest men on a level that the crimes against men tend to draw a different visceral reaction. Again, not saying it's right, but they tend to draw a different visceral reaction, which is that the man was out in the world doing men stuff and something happened to him.
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