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Charging the Mound: Labels

Chris Liss

Chris Liss

Chris Liss is RotoWire's Managing Editor and Host of RotoWIre Fantasy Sports Today on Sirius XM radio.

Jeff Erickson

Jeff Erickson

Jeff Erickson is a co-founder of RotoWire.com and the only two-time winner of Baseball Writer of the Year from the Fantasy Sports Writers Association. He roots for the Reds, Bengals, Red Wings, Pacers and Northwestern University (the real NU).

-----Original Message-----
From: jeff@rotowire.com
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 7:56pm
To: "Christopher Liss"
Subject: Charging - Labels


It's human nature to create classifications to explain what we don't understand. Life's easier in our minds if we can classify people or certain phenomena as part of a group, put a label on it, and move on, with that label explaining what we need to know. But all too frequently that explanation is inadequate at best, and often false. There are many issues in life where this is a real problem that rises to a much higher concern than fantasy baseball or baseball itself, but this is what we do, so it's still important.


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