Wow! How unexpected of you Steve! A rip on Hughes! I got to the part where you say:

“I have to confess, for me, it’s the combination thing. But, it’s not a 50-50 deal. Actually, most times, I’ll go with my feelings and then see if the numbers back it up.”

and I thought, “Here it comes!”

It’s exactly what you do. I think this, so let me find a way to back it up.

Hey Steve, I’m not saying anything here. I’m just saying.

That seems to be the way this blog goes. I’ve been reading this for a while, and when you don’t like someone, you seem to take it personally.

I’m not a “blinders” guy. I know this team is flawed. I also know that Hughes could wind up being Andy Benes. It just gets to the point where your continued harping on it is ridiculous. I know, it’s your blog and you can write what you want. If we don’t like it we don’t have to read it.

There is so much that is good about this blog, Steve, so you make it hard to not stop by on my daily readings of the Yankees Universe.

Here was a good piece on starting a debate over stats or instinct. Then it gets lowered by you taking another shot at Hughes.

I know. I know. You’re just saying…

I work in politics and either you live on numbers and polls and stats or you live on instincts and how people work. Baseball is pretty much just like that. It’s a game that you can break down to be nearly pure numbers, using past data and current data you can (as Steve does all the time) predict past, present and future trends. And its also a game that there can be anomalies, like Brady Anderson (anomaly apparently was probably steroids) because life is random. Maybe a hitter decides to sit on a pitch when he would normally swing away. Baseball is both random and logical. Logically a batter who is a consistent .275 batter isn’t going to become a .398 batter in 1 day, month or year.

Im probably rambling