Very engaging column this AM, courtesy of Yahoo’s Hannah Keyser, regarding the concept of “trying’’ in baseball:
“Trying” is sort of a quaint lens through which to view professional sports. But there’s no concept more consistently at the forefront of analysis or more fraught. I think about whether teams are trying with respect to everything they do. I think about what it means for a conglomerate to try at all. Whether stupidly trying more is better than strategically trying less. What about trying hard and coming up short?
Is trying always a euphemism for spending?