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Being a pro sports scout is not an easy gig. Sometimes you hit, sometimes you miss, and this ex-Yankee scout's miss could've set the team back indefinitely.

Old baseball scouts is really not fair to old baseball scouts. because i think that at some level, they always had a sense that this was a matter, that they knew they had been wrong enough to be guarded when they made their assessments and they needed the deniability at the end of it. and trump doesnt seem to have any sense of that. so were in a very peculiar situation. the person who is the decider doesnt have the equipment to make good decisions. >> another defense of the old baseball scouts, ...

He is a guy who made stupid trades because he trusts his judgment, whatever that is, and without any kind of reason for it. its hard to -- you know -- but that doesnt -- its to compare donald trump to old baseball scouts is really not fair to old baseball scouts. >> ah, okay. >> because i think at some level, there was -- there was a -- they always had a sense that, you know, this was a matter -- they knew they had been wrong enough to be guarded when they made their assessments. and they needed...

Was valuable or if he was valuable, instead you deferred to some guy staring at a baseball player and saying i like that guy. we should get that guy. and it was quickly proven when people started to use data better that that was an inferior way to make decisions. and at the very least, you wanted information as a check on your judgment. so he does remind me a bit of the people that billy beane and the oakland as general manager who is at the heart of "moneyball" ran circles around. he is a guy w...

They knew they had been wrong enough to be guarded when they made their assessments. and they needed a kind of deniability at the end of it. and trump doesnt seem to have any sense of that. so were in a very peculiar situation where the person who is the decider really doesnt have the equipment to make intelligent decisions. >> and in defense of the old baseball scouts, they brought as much fact-based analysis to it as they could. they didnt realize there was this whole other mountain of it that...

its possible for them to walk within a few yards of somebody and not know they were there. other than general directions we dont know where in the woods the final drama played out but there are signs were getting close. i found this, a military-style red smoke grenade and if you look on the ground here you can see where it was set off. now according to the fbi, when mayes was found they set off red smoke to alert the other authorities and search crews in the area. this means were close...

Was interrupted by another fighter demand ag rematch. that tipped off a huge brawl. the announcers tried to calm the situation down but it did not quite work of the broadcast went to commercial. one said, gentlemen, were on live television that did not stop the fight. baseball scouts could soon be headed to new jersey to check out, get this, a 5-year-old. he swings away and consistently hits righty or lefty, pitches coming in at 85 miles an hour. he can field balls like nobodys business. his coa...