{"id":1355,"date":"2016-06-01T07:29:27","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T14:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/?p=1355"},"modified":"2017-03-30T10:10:04","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T17:10:04","slug":"the-only-rule-is-it-has-to-work-by-ben-lindbergh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/?p=1355","title":{"rendered":"The Only Rule Is It Has to Work by Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/work\/16731328\" target=\"_self\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 12px; margin-right: 12px;\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.cdn.librarything.com\/picsizes\/ba\/52\/ba52f3c8768a6275970434d6c77434f414f4141.jpg\" alt=\"The Only Rule Is It Has to Work by Ben Lindbergh\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In this book, a couple of baseball podcasters with just a little management experience between them get the opportunity to manage a baseball team by the numbers.  They offer to manage the team using statistics, similar to those used in the major leagues.  The get the opportunity in a very minor league in Sanoma, California, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stompersbaseball.com\">Sanoma Stompers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the course of their adventures, they learn that statistics aren&#8217;t everything.  They get resistance from players and other managers who don&#8217;t want rules from outsiders.  They learn about the politics of baseball, and that some things are more important than the statistics. <\/p>\n<p>At times the books is outright funny, it is insightful, and you can learn a lot about the inside activities of baseball.  It is an enjoyable read for anyone interested in the sport.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this book, a couple of baseball podcasters with just a little management experience between them get the opportunity to manage a baseball team by the numbers. They offer to manage the team using statistics, similar to those used in the major leagues. The get the opportunity in a very minor league in Sanoma, California, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16],"tags":[59,57,58],"class_list":["post-1355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-sports","tag-baseball","tag-ben-lindbergh","tag-sam-miller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1355"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1364,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355\/revisions\/1364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}