We need 38 home runs, 120 RBIs and 47 doubles to replace. We've gotta replace these guys with what we have existing. The problem is we have to replace three key players in our lineup. Look, Billy, we all understand what the problem is. We're trying to solve the problem here, Billy. Talking, "la-la-la-la", like this is business as usual. I think it opens up all kinds of interesting possibilities.
Beane, and if you want full disclosure, I think it's a good thing that you got Damon off your payroll. So that's why I'm-I'm cagey about this with you. And if I say it to anybody, I'm-I'm ostracized. But is he worth the seven and half million dollars a year that the Boston Red Sox are paying him? No. an imperfect understanding of where runs come from. The Boston Red Sox see Johnny Damon and they see a star who's worth seven and half million dollars a year. And in order to buy wins, you need to buy runs. Your goal shouldn't be to buy players, your goal should be to buy wins. People who run ball clubs, they think in terms of buying players. And this leads people who run Major League Baseball teams to misjudge their players and mismanage their teams. There is an epidemic failure within the game to understand what is really happening.
They'll be sitting on their ass on the sofa in October, watching the Boston Red Sox win the World Series. I mean, anybody who's not building a team right and rebuilding it using your model, they're dinosaurs. And every time that happens, whether it's the government or a way of doing business or whatever it is, the people are holding the reins, have their hands on the switch. But really what it's threatening is their livelihoods, it's threatening their jobs, it's threatening the way that they do things. It's the threat of not just the way of doing business, but in their minds it's threatening the game. I know you've taken it in the teeth out there, but the first guy through the wall. You won the exact same number of games that the Yankees won, but the Yankees spent one point four million per win and you paid two hundred and sixty thousand. You lost Damon, Giambi, Isringhausen, Pena and you won more games without them than you did with them. For forty-one million, you built a playoff team.
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