#ben lindbergh

[khakilike]

“When someone says they’re not here to discuss the past, it’s a sign that their past is pretty interesting. That was true of Mark McGwire, and it’s true of Ahsoka Tano too.”

Ben Lindbergh, recapping Ahsoka S01E04 "Fallen Jedi" for The Ringer

[heisenbergchronicles]

The Ringer: What Vince Gilligan and the Ending of Breaking Bad Tell Us About El Camino by Ben Lindbergh 

With Walt’s help, Jesse had escaped from captivity at the Aryan Brotherhood compound and fled in the late Todd Alquist’s 1978 Chevrolet El Camino, cry-laughing in relief. “Grimly determined, fearing nothing, he speeds through the darkness,” the script read. “From here on, it’s up to us to say where he’s headed. I like to call it ‘something better,’ and leave it at that.”

[khakilike]

“It does strain credulity that Sabine still hasn’t told Ezra how she got to his galaxy or that they don’t have a way to get back without hitchhiking with Thrawn—if he could order another purrgil pickup, he presumably would have already—so it’ll be past time for Ahsoka or Sabine to clue him in when Episode 8 picks up after this week’s closing lines: ‘Guys, I’m getting a feeling. I think I might be going home after all!’”

Ben Lindbergh, reviewing Ahsoka S01E07 "Dreams and Madness"

[immigrationnewsdigest]

Re: ⁦⁦@nyttypos⁩; “account’s constant tweets are an indirect result of the downsizing and deadline pressure endemic to digital media as publishers fight for eyeballs in an industry where every minute matters…” https://t.co/lBudEqIUSe

— ImmigNewsDigest (@ImmigNewsDigest) August 19, 2020

Wrote about @nyttypos and his one-man mission to proofread the New York Times, which cut its copy desk in 2017. Thanks to @cbengaines, @jack_mccluskey, @kajerstin, @_jordanligons, and the rest of @ringer's crack copy desk for improving this/every article.https://t.co/SUR17EX37C

— Ben Lindbergh (@BenLindbergh) August 18, 2020

[double11d]

Winning At All Costs: The Houston Astros Story (Daryll)

Winning At All Costs: The Houston Astros Story (Daryll)

The path to good people doing very bad things is rarely a straight downward line. At one point or another they start slowly eroding their sense of morality by making one step here, another step there, slightly off course.

On television a few years back we saw this journey in Walter White in the show Breaking Bad. He started as a high school science teacher diagnosed with cancer and needing…

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What Drive and Driveline Sports Have In Common (Daryll)

What Drive and Driveline Sports Have In Common (Daryll)

Over this past week of travel for work, I finished up two books that at first glance are in the exact opposite veins: Drive by Daniel Pink, and The MVP Machine by Travis Sawchik and Ben Lindbergh. Yet both of these books hit on an essence of life that I feel is summed up well by this quote from Pink:

“Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined, and connected to one…

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Tired: Pulling pitchers before their 3rd time through the order Wired: The opener/bullpenning Inspired: Pulling pitchers MID-PLATE-APPEARANCE Wrote @ringer about the next innovation in pitcher usage, which could be coming soon to an MLB ballpark near you. https://t.co/ppWpSgpqeJ

— Ben Lindbergh (@BenLindbergh) July 26, 2019

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Episode 349: Ben Lindbergh

In 2017’s The Only Rule Is It Has to Work, Ben Lindbergh and co-author Sam Miller detailed the season they spent running an independent baseball team with strict adherence to sabermetrics, analytic-based analysis that has come to define the past decade of management.

This year, Lindbergh and fellow baseball writer Travis Sawchik take on the majors with The MVP Machine.

The recently released book details baseball management after Moneyball, as the war for statistical advantages has been replaced by teams working behind the scenes to improve players through new technologies and analysis.

Fresh off the book’s release, Lindbergh (and his adorable dachshund Grumkin) joined us to discuss how the process differs from his day job(s) writing for The Ringer and cohosting the podcasts The Ringer MLB Show and the popular and Effectively Wild, a popular and long running show currently produced by Fangraphs.