Jonah Keri has an Abstract chat with Bill James about flattering your reader; the hipster quality of Sabermetrics; shifting from analysis to history; empiricism and holding on to inaccuracies; skepticism; iconoclasm; opportunity; beating Tim Raines in a race; doing analytics for the Red Sox; predicting Trump's win decades ago; health care; KU basketball; appearing on The Simpsons; true crime; the potential of the internet; evolution in baseball; and Bill's Life Tip.

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