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Love to read you poking at the saber dogma.  I love what sabermetrics have done for baseball, but the pompous among them need their ox's gored from time to time.
The movie, Gattaca. I think it should be required viewing for every saber head.  There is a line in the movie that has stuck with me since I first watched it.  The genetically flawed man who is scamming the genetically pure system asks a scientist. "What if a person exceeds expectations?"  The scientist brushes his question aside saying. "If a person exceeds expectations it simply means the expectations were wrong."
The scientist is still trying to deny the human element but, unlike the sabermetric die hards, he is willing to admit his measurement might fall short. It's a great movie to examine the science vs. human spirit argument.