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Simple explanation - Like every sport, there are various methods managers, talent scouts and owners in baseball evaluate talent. But baseball is a very traditional sport. And those managers, talent scouts and owners had very traditional ways of evaluating talent - ways that hadn’t really been scrutinized in a long time. As it turns out a lot of those ways of evaluating talent didn’t do a very good job of predicting the most important thing - how much a given player contributes to the success of the team.Billy Beane started using different, more empirical ways to value baseball talent - ways that he felt directly measured a players contribution to teams winning games. He didn’t invent these new metrics. They were largely invented by an avid baseball fan, Bill James and are collectively called Sabermetrics.In any case, when he applied those metrics to evaluating players, he found that there were many players that were undervalued. In some cases, they were severely undervalued. Because of that he could acquire them cheaply. At the same time, he could look at his current team and see that some of his players were overvalued, and he could profitably trade them away to other teams who valued them highly because they were still using the traditional, arcane techniques for evaluating players that were prevalent at the time. So by applying those metrics, he was able to build a winning team with players the organization could afford - and at a much lower cost per win than any other team in baseball.

Frankly, there are more thorough and accurate evaluations of the Constitution and what the founders intended in the men’s rooms of truck stops along I-81 in Virginia.Dershowitz was delivering cherry-picked and slanted advocacy and trying to claim that it was even-handed evaluation.Real constitutional scholars — ones that aren’t being paid by one of the parties in this dispute — found many of Dershowitz’ claims laughable, particularly the idea that there must be a violation of a Federal criminal statute in order for there to be an impeachable offense. That’s not what “high Crimes” meant in the British common law tradition the authors of the Constitution were familiar with, but more importantly there were no Federal criminal statutes in 1789, when that was being written. The first ones — piracy, treason, and counterfeiting — were passed in 1790. There were no other Federal criminal statutes until after the Civil War. There were three judges impeached during that period, however.It was a sad spectacle of a man who has sold off his honor and credibility piece by piece over the years trying to give an argument credibility by his presence. And like a baseball player who’s hung on a year too long and won’t admit that he simply can’t catch up to the fastball any more, the spectacle was as pitiful as it was unnecessary.

Bo Jackson did a lot of freakish things that defied even elite athletic boundaries.A few highlights:Jackson was selected with the first overall pick of the 1986 NFL Draft by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, but he opted to play baseball for the Kansas City Royals, the defending World Series champions, who had drafted him in the fourth round in the 1986 amateur draft.Ran an offical hand-timed 40-yard dash of 4.12 seconds at the NFL Combine. This remains the fastest time ever (especially impressive considering Bo’s size: 6′1″, 230 pounds)His college baseball coach recounted a story in which Bo was wading through some water at the beach. The water was knee-high, but Bo explosively leapt up out of the water and did a backflip, landing back on his feet.Bo was a two time-state champion in the decathlon in high school without even running the 1500m. He built up such a lead in the other events that he didn’t even bother participating in the last event because “Distance is the only thing I hate about track," he said. [7]He often used to break his baseball bat over his leg after a strikeout.Here is one of many diving catches he made on the baseball diamond:Here is him running past/over people on the gridiron:This man was playing the highest level of football against arguably the world’s greatest athletes “as a hobby” during the baseball off-season.Unfortunately his great career was cut short with a hip injury.His world-renowned physician, Dr. James Andrews, said that the injury might not have happened if he was a less powerful athlete- -noting how difficult it is to pop the hip out of the socket.Bo eventually underwent hip replacement surgery. Post-injury Bo was (understandably) a shadow of what he once was from an athletic standpoint. Yet he was still good enough to suit up for a Major League Baseball team.Bo made a comeback and actually suited up for the White Sox during the 1991 and 1993 seasons.“While with the Sox, Jackson promised his mom that once he returned from his hip replacement surgery that he would hit a home run for her. Before he could return, his mother died. In his first at-bat after surgery he hit a home run to right field. Jackson had the ball encased in acrylic and bolted to the dresser in her room, according to an interview on ESPN.”Many people speculate that he could have been a HOFer in both sports, but sadly did not play long enough to warrant a spot in either the baseball or football Hall of Fame.Regardless: He’s produced some of the most amazing highlights in both sports and is an inspiration to people that have seen the legend.Bo Knows.Bo Jackson