Joe Posnanski

When I was 13 years old, I had my bicycle stolen. I went into a Revco Drug Store at Cedar Center in Cleveland for only a minute -- a minute, that’s why I didn’t lock up my bike -- and when I came out my bike was gone. I had saved up everything for that bicycle. It was my life. I’m pretty sure that was the last time that I ever violently cried. I hated the world. I’ve always understood how a ... Read More

Well, since my last FTN item was such a big hit (yikes), here’s another one -- a pointless and formless thought for the day. * * * I’m never surprised when I see business corruption. To me, it’s pretty simple. We were all raised to be corrupt business moguls. We were all raised playing Monopoly. There’s nothing discreet about Monopoly. It is called MONOPOLY. The name pretty much gives away the premise. Your singular goal is to destroy other business leaders and build Monopolies so ... Read More

I realize as I am in the midst of 20 radio interviews in 36 hours (20! You’ve got to be kidding me! How many different ways can I say that Buck was a positive guy?) that it might be a little absurd to go on on air in Poughkeepsie and Charleston and all sorts of other places to talk about my book, promote it, and not at least post an excerpt of my own book on my own blog. So here’s one ... Read More

I love my Baseball Prospectus. I love that this year’s book is roughly the size of a ‘77 Ford Pinto. I love that the writers throw around their statistical abbreviations and acronyms without any embarrassment. I love that they manage to stuff more stuff into a 2 x 9 inch player’s profile than my daughter Elizabeth can stuff in her school backpack. Breakout? VORP? MLVr? You betcha. Oh yeah. I love the Baseball Prospectus. Or BP. Or as I like to call it, ... Read More

OK, I’m trying something new ... well, new for me. I was just doing my next post, and in the middle I wrote this Pozterisk that had absolutely nothing to do with anything. And about halfway through, I thought: “You know, maybe when these have nothing to do with anything, I make them separate, shorter posts.” Genius eh? Just think: I’m only 10 years behind the blog curve. Next thing you know, I’m going to discover that chocolate and peanut butter taste ... Read More