VERO BEACH, FLORIDA – TSSSSSSSUP!
That, friends, is the ear-splitting sound of the fun being sucked out of sports by sabermetricians and analyticals.
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Former Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane (center), seen in a September 2011 photo, helped popularize analytics and sabermetrics in Major League Baseball. Bean now serves as Oakland's executive vice president of baseball operations. | GABBOT/CC-BY-2.0
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