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...curious about your take on the statistics revolution in baseball and, increasingly, basketball. You've cautioned against assessing players through measurements like height or arm strength. Some of the ideas in Blink would also seem to support old scouting models, in which you just take the guy who looks like he plays the best. My take on it is that what you're looking for is a balance between these two things. I remember once having a conversation with a top executive with the Toronto Raptors. I asked her about the stats revolution in basketball and she just kind...
...What circumstances ultimately compelled you to go back to the Mennonite community? Well, I had a sort of critical year, a crisis year. My husband of 15 years announced one day that he was leaving me for a guy named Bob, whom he had met on Gay.com. Then, six days later, I was in a car accident. I was a mess, really, so I went to the only place I could figure out to go that wouldn't cost much, and that was home to the Mennonites...
...What do you suppose your life would have been like if you had stayed there originally? There was a Mennonite guy whom everybody sort of expected me to marry. Hi, Gary! He was tall, I was tall. Our parents were friends. We both were interested in theology, maybe even in seminary. This man and I never actually dated, and he ended up moving in a different direction too. But if I had stayed, I would have wanted to marry a man like him - thoughtful, reflective, family-oriented. I would have put embarrassing meatball sandwiches in my kids' lunches. Lord knows...
Redeeming quip: "What, you think I've never kissed a guy before...
...Last weekend I won three straight matches, and I felt really good coming into this one,” Nguyen said. “The guy I played was really good, and even though I tried my best, I learned...