Billy Beane - Just a little crazy

    While his A's organization was clearly on to something well before many other clubs, Billy seems a bit "crazy" . . . though in both good & bad ways.
    You've gotta be crazy to question the establishment, to ask questions that no one else is willing to ask, to go out on a limb and challenge the orthodoxy. That's the kind of crazy we can all learn from. He saw something -- in Sandy Alderson & Bill James & others - that made sense to him and he acted on it. Way to go Billy.
    However, let's be clear. This is a guy who expresses his emotions by throwing a chair through a wall? Doing it the "old" way, he drafted Giambi, Hudson, Zito, and Mulder. Doing it the "new" way he drafted Jeremy Brown and "the Creature". Sure I'm taking small sample sizes from both the old & new eras, but my point is that he had some spectacular success with the former method. It's far from clear that, whatever it's short comings, it should just be tossed out the window. There MUST be something usable there, but in the book we don't really get to see it.