But I can tell you (and you surely know, having played, yourself) that baseball is a hugely mental game – far moreso than any other professional sport other than perhaps golf precisely because it is such an individual sport (your teammates cannot pull you out of a slump) and because the margin of error – the difference between success and failure – is so very small. Ignoring the irrational is the rational thing to do, but the question becomes: is baseball a rational game?

It may well be that we’ve conflated two wholly different qualities – that baseball, by virtue of the fact that it is a sport based so very much on individual skill, is emminently *quantifiable*, but at the same time hugely *irrational* for exactly the same reason. Put that in your pipe and smoke it. At any rate, I think Holliday is a top-15 hitter for the rest of the year, and anything less than 1st round value (which nobody’s going to get) is underselling him at this point. I’ll take my crow with hot sauce at the end of the season if I’m wrong.

BTW, have you come off the ledge about Kendry Morales yet? Maybe he reads your blog, because he’s been on a tear ever since you called for a punt. I’m glad I trusted April Grey over July Grey and held on for one more day…I heeeeeeld on for one more day, and things went my way. I held on for one more day.