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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 doesn't seem to have any sense of that. so we're in a very peculiar situation. the person who is the decider doesn't have the equipment to make good decisions. >> another defense of the old baseball scouts, they brought as much fact based analysis to it as they could. they didn't realize there was a who...

He is a guy who made stupid trades because he trusts his judgment, whatever that is, and without any kind of reason for it. it's hard to -- you know -- but that doesn't -- it's 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 a kind of deniability at the end of it. and trump doesn't seem to have any sense of that. so we'...

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 a's general manager who is at the heart of "moneyball" ran circles around. he is a guy who made stupid without any kind of reason for it. it's hard to -- you know -- but that doesn't -- i...

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 doesn't seem to have any sense of that. so we're in a very peculiar situation where the person who is the decider really doesn't 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 didn't realize there was this whole other mountain of it that massive statistical analysis could help with. michael, we have to squeeze in a quick break here...