Jimmy Scott's High & Tight: The Sig Mejdal Interview

See that ring?  You could have one too.  Sig Mejdal's got one.  Only he doesn't play, he doesn't coach and he doesn't sign anyone.  Instead, he goes a little bit deeper.  A lotta bit deeper, actually.  If you've got the smarts and the energy and the passion to separate yourself from every other former NASA engineer out there, then you've got as good a chance as any other non-baseball player out there to getting one of these rings.

Let me step back a bit.  Sig Mejdal didn't do any one thing that led him to becoming the Senior Analyst for the St. Louis Cardinals.  He did a lot of different things, all of which culminated into his current gig.  He started at NASA doing studies about sleep patterns of pilots and how effective they could be working without the optimals levels of REM.  But baseball, his passion, and, ultimately, the praise for the Numbers Guys in Moneyball, led him to the annual baseball winter meetings in 2004 and a chance meeting with Sam Walker, Wall Street Journal writer/editor and, at that point, guy on leave so he could spend a season playing fantasy baseball (and subsequently writing Fantasyland: A Season On Baseball's Lunatic Fringe).  Sam needed help deciding how to put his fantasy baseball team together.  Sig became his chief Numbers Guy.

If you read Fantasyland, and I highly recommend you do, you'll learn quite a bit about Sig, some of which isn't necessarily accurate.  Does Sig, Mr. Quantitative, truly believe the emotions traditional baseball scouts put toward their recommendations to be "garbage"?  Did Sig truly respect Andrea Mallis (interviewed HERE last year), the Sports Astrologer?  If you want to know, listen to the Jimmy Scott's High & Tight Sig Mejdal Interview.

One last thing.  You need to listen to how Sig gets/got his various jobs.  How did he get his gig with NASA anyway?  How did Sig get his gig with the Cardinals?  He did more than just interview.  He went the extra yard.  He got creative.  He made himself appear more unique than everyone else looking for the exact same position.  What did he do?  Listen and you'll find out.

So, as always, lean back in your Lazy Boy, suck out of your Crazy Straw, and vision that future World Series ring on your finger.  Does it look like Sig's?  How does it feel?  How did you get it?  I'm hoping your time spent here with Sig was just the start.   Good luck.  Enjoy.  And go get 'em!

THE MUSIC

Rush - New World Man

Eric Clapton - It's In The Way That You Use It

Peter Gabriel - Big Time

Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic

Huey Lewis & The News - Hip To Be Square

Led Zeppelin - When The Levee Breaks, Going To California, The Rain Song, Since I've Been Loving You

The Eagles - I Dreamed There Was No War

The Who - Emminence Front

Death Cab For Cutie - I Will Posess Your Heart

The Police - Regatta de Blanc, Darkness