{"id":70,"date":"2004-08-08T20:14:25","date_gmt":"2004-08-08T20:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php\/2004\/08\/08\/moneyball_1\/"},"modified":"2004-08-08T20:14:25","modified_gmt":"2004-08-08T20:14:25","slug":"moneyball_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/?p=70","title":{"rendered":"Moneyball"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Moneyball &#8211; the art of winning an unfair game.<\/h2>\n<h3>Michael Lewis<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0393324818\/chriscurnowco-20\"><IMG SRC=\"\/mt-static\/images\/Amazon_Graphics\/0393324818.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"cover\" hspace=\"3\" vspace=\"3\" class=\"floatimgleft\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>After reading this book, you&#8217;ll never be able to listen to sports commentary<br \/>\nthe same way again. In fact, you&#8217;ll never be able to read the financial<br \/>\nor business pages the same way again.<\/p>\n<p><em>Moneyball<\/em> debunks commentary as based purely on perception<br \/>\nand prejudice rather than fact.<\/p>\n<p>But before we get into what this book does, it&#8217;s more important to<br \/>\ndiscuss how it does it. <em>Moneyball<\/em> above all else is a good<br \/>\nread. A &#8216;you can&#8217;t put it down&#8217; sort of read. Not bad for a book on<br \/>\nbaseball &#8211; a subject I know virtually nothing about and, until now,<br \/>\nhad no interest in learning.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chriscurnow.com\/books\/archives\/000140.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moneyball &#8211; the art of winning an unfair game. Michael Lewis After reading this book, you&#8217;ll never be able to listen to sports commentary the same way again. In fact, you&#8217;ll never be able to read the financial or business pages the same way again. Moneyball debunks commentary as based purely on perception and prejudice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}