Baseball Analogies

Comments heavily reference Major League Baseball (MLB), using concepts like Moneyball, sign-stealing, pitches, home runs, and stats as analogies or comparisons to the main article's topic, often in a humorous or critical way.

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Sample Comments

hnburnsy Aug 11, 2023 View on HN

For MLB that is a feature not a bug!

mrjj May 25, 2015 View on HN

Understand baseball rules at last

ppeetteerr Sep 1, 2017 View on HN

Perhaps it's the major league baseball that doesn't believe in the minor league baseball ;)

umanwizard Sep 26, 2022 View on HN

Baseball is in general disrepute? TIL.

j4yav Feb 6, 2024 View on HN

A baseball at football speed, of course

voidfunc Jan 18, 2025 View on HN

Let's do this for baseball.. would probably make everything way more interesting

lelandfe Jan 8, 2026 View on HN

We need to take a page from baseball and examine Hacks Above Replacement

kevin_thibedeau Sep 12, 2023 View on HN

"Baseball bat fodder" would be more apt.

sova Nov 25, 2018 View on HN

Yay someone else calls it sportsball

MrMan Feb 12, 2021 View on HN

Or how to run a baseball team before Moneyball