In Praise of Buster Olney

Those amongst the readership who’re both (a) comfortable with advanced metrics and (b) facile with the Twitters, are perhaps aware that Buster Olney is not entirely convinced of the Power and Glory of WAR. While our Full-Time Cancer Destroyer, Dave Cameron, addressed some of Olney’s concerns back in the beginning of August, Olney dedicated some portion of his AM on Friday to WAR-related handwringing.

While I don’t claim to understand the urgency behind Olney’s Inquisition-in-Miniature, I’m also positive that there’s more than one way to skin the cat called Being a Fine Person — a cat that Olney appears to skin more often than not. For let us not forget, reader, that even though Olney cares little for our particular brand of nerdery, that he is also not above sustaining reasonably-toned dialogues with people who have willingly (one expects) adopted the Twitter handle Sex Cauldron. This represents a sort of benevolence of which the present author is largely incapable — and I, as you will know, am neither (a) on TV nor (b) an expert in anything beyond my own personal weaknesses.