mellon002
08 Jul 2006, 12:39 AM
Interesting blurb from Ken Rosenthal's latest:
http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/5758692
Moneyball, soccer style?
Get your sequel ready, Michael Lewis.
A's general manager and minority partner Billy Beane spent 10 days in Germany watching the World Cup with fellow A's owners Lewis Wolff and Mike Crowley. He has befriended his G.M. counterpart with England's Tottenham Hotspurs. And he calls soccer "a fascinating business, a fascinating sport."
The A's ownership is trying to bring back an MLS franchise to San Jose, and Beane seems eager for a new challenge.
"I'm not going anywhere as it relates to the A's," he says. "But (soccer) is something I'm absolutely interested in, no question."
OK, but how would Beane, an advocate of statistical analysis, apply his baseball principles to soccer?
"Good question," Beane says. "(Soccer) is very fluid. It's not stop-and-start. I haven't researched everything I can when it comes to finding that analysis."
http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/5758692
Moneyball, soccer style?
Get your sequel ready, Michael Lewis.
A's general manager and minority partner Billy Beane spent 10 days in Germany watching the World Cup with fellow A's owners Lewis Wolff and Mike Crowley. He has befriended his G.M. counterpart with England's Tottenham Hotspurs. And he calls soccer "a fascinating business, a fascinating sport."
The A's ownership is trying to bring back an MLS franchise to San Jose, and Beane seems eager for a new challenge.
"I'm not going anywhere as it relates to the A's," he says. "But (soccer) is something I'm absolutely interested in, no question."
OK, but how would Beane, an advocate of statistical analysis, apply his baseball principles to soccer?
"Good question," Beane says. "(Soccer) is very fluid. It's not stop-and-start. I haven't researched everything I can when it comes to finding that analysis."