This reminds me of law school somehow.
Q: Has looking at the numbers prevented you from actually just enjoying a summer day at the ballpark? Have we all forgotten the randomness of human ballplayers? By reducing players to just their numbers can we lose sight of the intangibles such as teamwork, friendships, and desire.
A: Does looking at pretty women prevent one from experiencing love? Life is complicated. Your efforts to compartmentalize it are lame and useless.
From the Times' Freakonomics blog's q&a with Bill James (emphasis added).
"Lame and useless"--words to live by!
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Yeah. There was a moment in the capital defense clinic when most of the students realized that our first thought when someone didn't answer the phone or show up for meetings was "I wonder if he's been murdered?"
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