Mia Wong

Because like part of it not being respectable is that someone like Michael Lewis, right, who was like as establishment of a journalist as there's ever been. These people don't play video games. They're one of the few groups of people who just like don't game are these like traditional mainstream sort of access journalists. Right.

And so they run into this shit and they have no fucking idea what the hell is going on. And it's just really, really easy to sort of bamboozle them by just doing something that any gamer... You show a gamer a League of Legends addict, and they will instantly be able to just read this person a fucking book. Also, by the way, gaming addiction is like... kind of a fake thing.

And so they run into this shit and they have no fucking idea what the hell is going on. And it's just really, really easy to sort of bamboozle them by just doing something that any gamer... You show a gamer a League of Legends addict, and they will instantly be able to just read this person a fucking book. Also, by the way, gaming addiction is like... kind of a fake thing.

And so they run into this shit and they have no fucking idea what the hell is going on. And it's just really, really easy to sort of bamboozle them by just doing something that any gamer... You show a gamer a League of Legends addict, and they will instantly be able to just read this person a fucking book. Also, by the way, gaming addiction is like... kind of a fake thing.

I'm like mostly joking here, but also like League of Legends makes you a worse person. It simply does. You just get mad all the time. I know too many League of Legends players in my goddamn life. Holy shit. Terrible game. Yeah, but arcane though, right? All right. Continue. Oh, God.

I'm like mostly joking here, but also like League of Legends makes you a worse person. It simply does. You just get mad all the time. I know too many League of Legends players in my goddamn life. Holy shit. Terrible game. Yeah, but arcane though, right? All right. Continue. Oh, God.

I'm like mostly joking here, but also like League of Legends makes you a worse person. It simply does. You just get mad all the time. I know too many League of Legends players in my goddamn life. Holy shit. Terrible game. Yeah, but arcane though, right? All right. Continue. Oh, God.

Okay, we're going to take an ad break and then when I come back, I'm going to explain part of why this worked, which is the unique incompetence of Michael Lewis. Well, I look forward to that.

Okay, we're going to take an ad break and then when I come back, I'm going to explain part of why this worked, which is the unique incompetence of Michael Lewis. Well, I look forward to that.

Okay, we're going to take an ad break and then when I come back, I'm going to explain part of why this worked, which is the unique incompetence of Michael Lewis. Well, I look forward to that.

So we are back now. OK, obviously, part of the reason this works, too, is, you know, as I've been talking about, right, like these these really out of touch sort of like mainstream journalists who just don't understand an enormous market. Right. But Lewis is in some sense kind of a special case because he is really, truly an unbelievably gullible dumbass.

So we are back now. OK, obviously, part of the reason this works, too, is, you know, as I've been talking about, right, like these these really out of touch sort of like mainstream journalists who just don't understand an enormous market. Right. But Lewis is in some sense kind of a special case because he is really, truly an unbelievably gullible dumbass.

So we are back now. OK, obviously, part of the reason this works, too, is, you know, as I've been talking about, right, like these these really out of touch sort of like mainstream journalists who just don't understand an enormous market. Right. But Lewis is in some sense kind of a special case because he is really, truly an unbelievably gullible dumbass.

And to get an understanding of this, I'm going to go into something that Lewis, in theory, understands a lot better, which is sports. So Lewis has written two of the most famous books ever written about sports, right? He wrote Moneyball, which is the book that we're going to be talking about, which we'll get to in a second.

And to get an understanding of this, I'm going to go into something that Lewis, in theory, understands a lot better, which is sports. So Lewis has written two of the most famous books ever written about sports, right? He wrote Moneyball, which is the book that we're going to be talking about, which we'll get to in a second.

And to get an understanding of this, I'm going to go into something that Lewis, in theory, understands a lot better, which is sports. So Lewis has written two of the most famous books ever written about sports, right? He wrote Moneyball, which is the book that we're going to be talking about, which we'll get to in a second.

And he wrote The Blind Side, which is another book that they talk about on Behind the Bastards. You can go listen to that. But I want to... Go in on Moneyball. Moneyball is supposed to be this book about how this underdog Oakland Athletics team invented, like, baseball metrics.

And he wrote The Blind Side, which is another book that they talk about on Behind the Bastards. You can go listen to that. But I want to... Go in on Moneyball. Moneyball is supposed to be this book about how this underdog Oakland Athletics team invented, like, baseball metrics.

And he wrote The Blind Side, which is another book that they talk about on Behind the Bastards. You can go listen to that. But I want to... Go in on Moneyball. Moneyball is supposed to be this book about how this underdog Oakland Athletics team invented, like, baseball metrics.

And they used sabermetrics to, like, build this roster out of nothing that, like, went to the playoffs and did really well. And, like, I'm not going to get into the extent to which this was kind of a mirage about that Oakland A's team. Like, whatever. I'm not going to argue about baseball statistics.