Why Aren't They Thinking, Michael?

Mike Downey: Baseball is drowning in records. Why doesn't anybody use them? I really don't know. He says the oaklanas people inside their front office had been reading bill james without telling anyone. They didn't have as much money as the other teams, yet they won more games. The answer was simply that they were taking bill james's thinking out onto the field.Downey: Money ball came a shorthand for a new way of doing things in every corner of american life. It's being called money ball for the restaurant industry. Florida senator marco rubio announced his campaign yesterday and fund raisers are already calling him the money ball candidate.downey