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October 28, 2006

Execution as Strategy in the Garden of Good and Evil

And that's how you do that trick.

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Now, for those of you with short attention spans:

Widely cited as the greatest defensive player of all time, it's The Wizard of Oz.
Talking points:
- In the matter of winning games, Ozzie Smith generally accounted for a greater differential in his team's runs and the opponent's runs than did his numerous teamates who were paid mainly to swing.
- For the opponent, playing against Ozzie, which meant letting your fat payroll spend a lot of time being ineffective, was one of the most expensive things they had to do each year.
- Ozzie was so good that his salary could have been composed mainly of a fixed number of dollars per percentage points that he lowered his own pitcher's ERA and the opposing hitter's batting average, and he still would have usually been a multimillionaire.
- If you feel compelled to determine the exact number of dollars, get a life.

Concept: Walt Jockety, more or less.
Photos: Google Images thumbnailed these, and I copied them here. Who took the pictures? Beats me. If you know, send me the name and proof, and I'll market them with proper copyright. On the other hand, if you can't tell me who is the actual photographer, regardless of who owns the copyright, then don't bug me.

Posted by Malcolm Ryder at October 28, 2006 8:42 PM

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