My document I read for the second part of the report was The Trading Desk. This article was about the brilliant managing mind of Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane. The article talks about his ways of building a winning baseball team with very little money to work with. Beane used sabermetric analytical techniques to find players who were undervalued by their team. He would also use this technique when dealing his own players. What this caused was a cost effective way for Beane to get what he wanted which was a winning baseball team. Beane along with other managers changed the way in which people scout, draft, trade, and pay players. In terms of the other article I read regarding the Chicago Black Socks I see a few connections. Firstly both articles are centered around money. The Black Socks were torn between trying to win and taking more money. Billy Beane was trying to find a way to win for the least amount of money. The money in both cases make it look like is more of a game of economics than of the game itself. In my mind both stories revolve around cheating. Obviously the Black Socks were caught after throwing the 1919 World Series. I feel Billy Beane found a way around the rules to make his team good. He manipulated the system and other people to make them think things that were not true. Before this time the only way someone could put together a winning baseball team was with money. Money bought the best hitters, pitchers, and fielders Bean disproved that by messing with the system. In my mind Billy Beane found a way to build a team that was very good for very little money but he did so by in an unorthodox and some might say immoral way.
Friday, September 30, 2011
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Revising the 1Report assignment
Revising the 1Report assignment
The revisions I will be doing on my draft of the 1919 Black Socks scandal will be focused on a few main spots. One of the areas I will focus on is tying my secondary information back into my source document. After reading through some of the sample papers I see I could have done more with the information I gathered. Some of the information I feel ties into the source document greatly is Jackson’s performance on the field. Jackson’s testimony clearly talks about how he had the best average in the entire series and how he committed no errors in the field. His statistics from the entire series prove this almost to the dot. He was the only person in the entire series to hit a homerun and batted in 6 players. He even set a record for most hits in a World Series with 12. The meetings that occurred between the White Socks players and the gamblers is another point that connects quite well to the source document I was given. Joe Jackson stated in his confession he never went to the meetings with the ball players he only heard about them from other players such as Claude Williams. Although I am focused on the content part of my paper in my revising I will look at my grammar for mistakes.
My main revising will occur in the content area of my paper but the grammatical areas need some attention as well. Some of my bigger grammatical mistakes occur with my paragraph indenting and space. A couple times I moved onto another train of thought in the paper and forgot to start a new paragraph leaving in some cases paragraphs over a page in length. Those along with some misspellings are my only grammatical errors which will be easy to fix.
Sunday, September 18, 2011
They Say/ I say Response 1
Andrew Wheeler
Professor Archibald
English Composition
19 September 2011
Professor Archibald
English Composition
19 September 2011
They Say/ I Say Response 1
My reading of They Say/ I Say was actually to my surprise very enjoyable. I found the first section after the introduction the most interesting. I liked the idea about listening to truly grasp what people are saying. This idea in my opinion has been lost in American society with most people focused on themselves. Listening is one of the best ways for stuff to get done. When people truly listen we get to the bottom of what is going on and a better solution can be found. I also enjoyed their ideology of writing I already started implanting some of the techniques they described in a paper I had to write for another class. In my case it really opened some of my writings just by bringing my attention to it.
Sunday, September 11, 2011
1919 Black Socks Scandal introduction
The subject I chose for our assignment was sports. Inside that topic I decided i would enjoy writing about the Black Socks Scandal of 1919. I decided writing about the Black Socks scandal would be the most enjoyable topic for me. The scandal would also give me adequate material to write about because of the many connections to sports of all times. One of the more prevalent connections I enjoy about this topic is the cheating. This event was an eye opener to the baseball and the American people. Until this time there was no example of cheating on this scale and it really changed the game I personally enjoy watching.
As I started reading more on the Black Socks scandal I found out many interesting facts I didn't know before. Firstly I found out there was no leader of the scandal however there were key people involved. Those men Billy Maharg and William Thomas Burns together had the money and the connections to the players to set the scandal in motion. In total the gamblers put half a million dollars on the opposing team the Cincinnati Reds. The gamblers paid off 8 players including one of best in history "Shoeless" Joe Jackson.
Jackson has a very controversial role in this scandal. He hit a tremendous .375 average for the entire series while hitting the only homerun of the series. He had no errors in the field and even warned the skipper about the fix before it happened. He did admit however he was offered 20,000 dollars for his part in the series. Jackson along with the other seven players involved in the scandal were banned from playing in major league baseball forever. Even today Joe Jackson is still ineligible for hall of fame induction.
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