ResProj paper ideas

"He analyzed numbers and put money value on every player" 

"money played the role of a motivator."


After reading these quotes from my 2Syn paper what do you think about these topic ideas? Do you understand what I am getting at? Which one sounds best to use for the 3ResProj? Why?

Integrating Sources

example 1
That right there can be confirmed with the statement given by Joe Jackson that said “ Well, Attell was supposed to give the $100,000.”(10) Although the quote confirms the players were supposed to receive money I feel it shines light on something else also. Players back in the those days of baseball were not paid based on their performance.

Example 2

. In the  quote from The Trading Desk  Beane gives insight in how he thinks about the game “he faces a wall covered entirely by a white board and, on it, the names of the several hundred players controlled by the Oakland A's.”(p.6) This quote really shows how Billy Beane really focused on the players not just the numbers in the game.
                                                                          Work Cited


Lewis, Michael. "The Trading Desk." New York Times. N.p., 30 Mar. 2003. Web. 16 Oct. 2011. <http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/30/magazine/30BASEBALL.html?pagewanted=1&pagewanted=all>.  

"Mayer, Brown & Platt." N.p., 19 Oct. 1988. Web. 26 Sept. 2011. <http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/blacksox/shoelessjoe.pdf>. 

First paragraph of my 2Syn paper

In the early 21st century Billy Beane devised a new way for building a winning baseball team, this method he used was one of the reasons the Oakland A’s of the early 2000’s were so successful. As I read the article entitled Money Ball I noticed it connected with the ideas that I read about the Black Socks Scandal of 1919. On the most basic level both articles talked about the sport of baseball. Money Ball talks about the general manager of the Oakland A’s Billy Beane and his methods for putting together a winning team. His ideas on building a team were much different from the rest of the league. He analyzed numbers and put money value on every player in the A’s system and the players he was interested in. This analytical process enabled Billy Beane to build a team that would become very sucessful while keeping the A’s payroll very low. Although these methods proved very effective Billy Beane he did acquire enemies because of the way he did things. Even though he made enemies with his deals his ideas have now become commonplace among baseball clubs. His ideology on building a team showed me another connection with the article on the Black Socks Scandal. This relation was money in baseball and the important role it plays.


After reading what do you believe my paper is about

What is a synthesis?

Synthesis is a process that I will admit I have never really done. From what I have read im comparing the ideas of documents given to me to see if I can find any similarities between them. This process seems to be about first reading through the documents I wish to synthesize and find similarities between both. I am not looking for basic ideas when im doing this im looking specifically for ideas that run deeper throughout the paper not just on the surface.Once I have found the ideas I feel have a strong presence in both articles I must compare how they have changed throughout time or how they chance throughout country. In my two documents something that to me runs through the surface is they are both about baseball. Something that runs deeper through the both articles is the fact there both have their minds focused around money and the affects it has on players, managers, and anyone else who is around the world of baseball. Money has become such a big force in baseball Billy Beane devised an entire new way on how he could build a team to not spend money. Obviously the Black Socks Scandal was about players throwing the 1919 World Series for money from gamblers at the time. Another underlying theme I have found in both of my articles is cheating and why it has become such  a problem in baseball. Cheating in my mind relates back to the issue of money but it is a little different. It has corrupted players like the people involved with the Black Socks Scandal and people who have used steroids for performance enhancements. In both cases the reasons for doing these things was money. That is what I understand synthesis as and where I intend to head with my paper

http://users.drew.edu/~sjamieso/Synthesis.htm

http://wac.colostate.edu/intro/pop5e.cfm

http://www.iupui.edu/~uwc/pdf/Literature%20Review%20and%20Synthesis.pdf