Baseball is selling simultaneously a sport that you're watching and a history of the sport. People are so invested in the continuity of the game. Baseball will have to, I think, make a decision between its future and its past.
No — but he does have a knack for stumbling into the perfect moment, including the recent FTX debacle. In this installment of the Freakonomics Radio Book Club, we revisit the book that launched the analytics revolution.