SSI trades SABRMatt to Yankees
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SABRMatt (aka ghost) has parachuted into the big league drop zone:
BTW all...you might be interested to know that I have taken an internship opportunity with the New York Yankees...data analyst intern...I start Friday...so wish me luck. :)
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And says,
The homily in today's mass seemed very apropos to my situation...the only thing that stopped me from actively seeking out this sort of opportunity in the past was fear of failing and thus proving my dreams of working in the game illusory...and that was the theme of the day. Fear as the great enemy of man in his quest to find peace and fulfillment.
That is what having the love of a wonderful woman can do for a man who doubts himself...my finance prodded me into trying to live out my dream. We'll see how far I can get.
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Lemme add my congrats to those of Ryno, Mal, DaddyO, and the rest of the bleacher bums. Send a postcard from the Asst GM office :- )
An interview with SABRMatt about his rocket ride to GM-dom would be a lot more interesting than most other possible interviews right now. Picking from a long list of questions, then ...
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1. Do you have any idea yet whether it will be okay, with your superiors, to continue to post on SSI about non-sensitive topics? Maybe in the interviews you broached this subject already?
The first notable sabermetrician to work in baseball (visibly), Mike Gimbel, disemboweled himself by telling everybody he knew that he was a Red Sox ... but Gimbel included in that a willingness to take full credit for all of his GM's good moves, to set the Red Sox clubhouse afire over his recommended trade of their starting shortstop, to allow the neighborhood kids into his apartment's alligator pond, and so forth.
Maybe Matt can get something going over a forced retirement of Mariano Rivera .....
Nowadays the Red Sox don't seem to care whether Bill James even talks about Red Sox players, much less talk about baseball generally; Tom Tango only needs to show reasonable discretion about recommendations he's actually paid for, etc.
So presumably SABRMatt could continue at SSI if he were so inclined, especially if he showed that bit of "reasonable discretion." I know *I* don't care if he gets fired over tipping us off about a few things on July 30th...
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2. How are you going to find time watch M's games now that you have to watch all the Yankee games?
I always imagined that MLB teams provided 30-minute edited videos of games to all their interns. But maybe they sort of expect that their employees be fans, or something.
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3. Is it harder to come out as a Catholic than (you would imagine it to be) to come out of the closet on more conventional closet issues? Sweet reference to the homily, dude. Way to follow on a career breakthrough with public thankfulness.
:- )
Public thankfulness for your lady, too. You can't stop SABRMatt, you can only hope to contain him...
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4. I'm curious: is it mostly an e-mail job, or do you need to punch a clock? If so, "internship" doesn't imply volunteer work, then?
I believe in being tactful. That's why we're limiting our questions to only the most impersonal...
Am pretty sure that when Mat Olkin was the M's leading saberdude, he was able to do his job via e-mail, seldom even visiting the city of Seattle. On the other hand, Matty actually lives in the greater New York area, I think... leading to
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5. Do you get a pass to the ballgames?
If so, I'm calling the M's and demanding ballpark passes for Gordon. At least when the Rainiers are in Colorado Springs.
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6. What are you going to tell them to do with ARod? Are the Yankees going to use your PCA method to calculate the discount on that meatball and trade him back here for Seager?
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Hey Matt. Couldn't have happened to a more deserving guy. Don' be a stranger.
Warmly,
Jeff