MONEYBALL COMES TO CHAVEZ RAVINE: Baseball's sabermetric community is rejoicing today, as the Los Angeles Dodgers have hired Billy Beane sidekick and "Moneyball" figure Paul DePodesta as their new general manager. With the move the Dodgers become major league baseball's fourth "sabermetric team," following Oakland, Toronto, and Boston, and the first in the National League.
I wrote a review of "Moneyball" last year that likened the sabermetric movement in baseball to the neoconservative movement in politics; funny that the Dodgers only embraced one after they were sold by Rupert Murdoch, one of the world's chief enablers of the other.