Theory: reason so many sabermetric writers veer into politics is that we all cut our teeth on ideological conflict vs traditional anti-metric thinking, whereas the battle lines today are mostly intra-sabermetric debates over dry, technical issues.
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I think it's more simply the idea that political issues are more important and political punditry is more widely consumed. Politics, in a sense, is our nations most popular sport, so why not transition to it?
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Gave my boss Moneyball to open his mind about the efficacy of the metrics were collecting. He thought I wanted to talk about baseball. Imagine.
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