So the big-mouthed lout from accounting is a sporting visionary -- who knew?
By Joe Eskenazi
Ever since the days when the office was the north forty of Ye Olde Feudal Lord's estate and the water cooler was likely an ox, men have regaled one another with tales of their sexual conquests, tales that invariably begin "So there I was...".
Water-cooler banter was greatly augmented by two inventions: The water cooler (1906) and baseball. Rather than be forced to go into details about intimacy --
Why does Joe Morgan -- the best second baseman in history and a prominent TV broadcaster -- hate Moneyball? And Billy Beane and his Oakland A's? And you, too, if you think the statistical revolution that's overwhelmed Major League Baseball has any