First base was a far richer social opportunity. First base made catching feeling like a bad dinner party - what with the ump hanging on your shoulder and all the fans and cameras staring at you. At first base you could really talk.
Michael LewisThe retirement age for Greek jobs classified as "arduous" is as early as fifty-five for men and fifty for women. As this is also the moment when the state begins to shovel out generous pensions, more than six hundred Greek professions somehow managed to get themselves classified as arduous: hairdressers, radio announcers, writers, musicians, and on and on and on.
Michael LewisThat's what happens when you're thirty-seven years old: you do the things you always did but the result is somehow different.
Michael LewisTags: baseball aging moneyball
...[H]uman beings are neurologically ill-designed to be modern Americans. The human brain evolved over hundreds of thousands of years in an environment defined by scarcity. It was not designed, at least originally, for an environment of extreme abundance... Even a person on a diet who sensibly avoids coming face-to-face with a piece of chocolate cake will find it hard to control himself if the chocolate cake somehow finds him... When faced with abundance, the brain's ancient reward pathways are difficult to suppress. In that moment the value of eating the chocolate cake exceeds the value of the diet. We cannot think down the road when we are faced with the chocolate cake.
Michael LewisWhat baseball managers did do, on occasion, beginning in the early 1980s, was hire some guy who knew how to switch on the computer. But they did this less with honest curiosity than in the spirit of a beleaguered visitor to Morocco hiring a tour guide: pay off one so that the seventy-five others will stop trying to trade you their camels for your wife. Which one you pay off is largely irrelevant.
Michael LewisTags: motivation evidence objectivity
What happens when we acknowledge the sovereignty and power of God without trusting in His goodness and faithfulness? A pitcher who saw God's power behind his extremely unlikely rise to the big leagues wondered if, at any difficulty he encountered there, God might be taking his ability away.
Michael LewisTags: faithfulness love-of-god sovereignty-of-god
If you’ve got a dozen pitchers, you need to speak 12 different languages.
Michael LewisTags: individuality education motivation
The author refers to a player's affected nonchalance and comments he is, "too young to realize you are what you pretend to be.
Michael LewisTags: vision attitude mentality
I'm not paying you for the player you used to be, I'm paying you for the player you are right now.
Michael LewisThe batter’s box was a cage designed to crush his spirit.
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