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    What Moneyball-for-Everything Has Done to American Culture

    You can make a thing so perfect that it’s ruined.
    by Derek Thompson Oct 30, 2022 5 minutes
    Source: Getty; Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic

    This is Work in Progress, a newsletter by Derek Thompson about work, technology, and how to solve some of America’s biggest problems. Forwarded this newsletter? Sign up here to get it every week.

    The return of the World Series this weekend offers an opportunity to engage in America’s real national pastime: wondering loudly why people don’t like baseball as much as they used to.

    Speaking personally, my relationship to the game these days is one of nostalgic befuddlement. The nostalgia part comes from spotless memories of watching on my parents’ couch, nestled between my dad and my dog: the chintzy ESPN graphics, the theme song that sounded straight out of a video game, the dulcet baritones of the announcers Jon Miller and Joe Morgan. The befuddlement part amount of time watching baseball anymore.

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