Episode 252: "The Inside Game"

Baseball by the Book

Justin McGuire

Authors, Baseball, Books, Statistics, Sports, History, Arts

4.9 • 655 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

The anchoring effect. Outcome bias. The sunk-cost fallacy. Keith Law, senior writer for The Athletic, joins us to discuss how psychological and economic principals can help us understand baseball — and vice versa.

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0:00.0	The one
0:02.0	The one side
0:04.0	I tell the me, I believe
0:05.0	The Giants
0:06.0	The Giants
0:08.0	The Pellant!
0:09.0	The Giants!
0:10.0	The Giants!
0:12.0	The Giants!
0:13.0	The Pellet!
0:14.0	The one constant through all the years, Ray,
0:15.0	has been baseball.
0:17.0	Oh, put me in cold.
0:22.0	I'm ready to play today.
0:39.8	Hey, everybody. I'm Justin McGuire, and this is a special Friday edition of Baseball by
0:45.0	the Book, the only podcast that matters. That's right, folks, you are once again spending part
0:50.1	of your quarantine time listening to Baseball by the Book, the podcast in which we talk to
0:54.8	authors of baseball books past and present. We're going to get right to it today. Our guest is
1:00.1	Keith Law. Keith is a senior baseball writer for the athletic. He previously worked for ESPN and was
1:07.2	a special assistant to the general manager of the Toronto Blue Jays.
1:14.9	He previously appeared on Baseball by the book to talk about smart baseball.
1:22.7	Today he's here to discuss the inside game, bad calls, strange moves, and what baseball behavior teaches us about ourselves. I'd like to thank Scott Ferkovich for his help in putting this episode together,
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