Hello, welcome. Hello welcome to another episode of Purple Insider Matthew Pollard

your joining name. Look the Vikings had an outside the box hire so we're going to have an outside the box hire,

so we're going to have an outside the box guest on the show.

Someone who's been coming on shows of mine

for many years because he is my favorite baseball

writer in the world, Enos Saris, who has brilliantly, as I introduce you here,

it's weird talking about you, Eno,

but you have brilliantly melded covering baseball players

inside locker rooms back when we were allowed with covering the analytics movement and I feel like you are the perfect person to talk about how baseball has progressed from moneyball to being where it is now as football I think is starting

to have its moneyball movement so thank you for taking your time to come on the show I mean you're

busy with the lockout and all.

No, yeah, there's so much going on right now.

I have to just a preemptive apology. For football, I am just a casual fan. I am a casual as they say as the kids say. So I watch the 49ers when they are good and the kind of fun thing about being casual especially in

juxtaposition to my like baseball fandom or whatever it is like you know I am all in on baseball like all the way down to the

minutia of the stitches on the ball with football when the 49ers are bad I

don't have to watch.

Well and this is this is how I've become

with Minnesota sports where it's just like I'll just sort of be the

moth to the flame of like oh the wolves are fun they've got a good player let me watch that on my TV because like you said everything down to whether the laces need to be out on a field goal is what we cover here.

But that's what I appreciate so much about your work and you've seen this entire thing in baseball

develop from the moneyball sort of movement as people start to become aware of data-based decision-making to now where you could fill Target Center with the analytics people from the Boston Red Sox or something, right?

So I want you to kind of tell me about like the turning points in baseball when it came to analytics

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