Nickname Seeks Player: Vote on “Big Data”
The nomination process, which was as close to blatantly stealing from one Dayn Perry as I dare get, for he is from Mississippi, probably owns several firearms, and has booby-trapped his house, is now complete. So now comes the part which I both love and fear, the exercise of your franchise. Love, because I enjoy seeing how the teeming, grubby masses abuse the great freedom of the vote that they were mistakenly given, and fear because the results always represent a stumble downward, away from the perfect Eden which the One True God, Mike Trout, wants for us.
And so, it is with trepidation and titillation that I present to you your opportunity to decide which ballplayer, because of his ubiquity and transformative ability, once and forever more,, shall be called “Big Data” behind his back (for who among us is likely to have the prairie oysters to say it to his face?).
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Thank you for proving the Founding Fathers wrong.
Mike Bates co-founded The Platoon Advantage, and has written for many other baseball websites, including NotGraphs (rest in peace) and The Score. Currently, he writes for Baseball Prospectus and co-hosts the podcast This Week In Baseball History. His favorite word is paradigm. Follow him on Twitter @MikeBatesSBN.
Ross Ohlendorf needs to be on this list. He graduated from Princeton, his major was Operations Research and Financial Engineering, and his thesis was a sabermetric analysis of the draft. http://www.beyondtheboxscore.com/2009/6/6/901024/ross-ohlendorf-sabermetrician
Sadly, you did not participate in the nomination process, so your opinion and unwillingness to follow the rules counts no more here than it does in real democratic process.
Yeah, it doesn’t matter whether people get to express their opinion in “democracies.”