I’m from Buffalo, so I have a lot of love for Cleveland…kind of like our more attractive cousin, who’s still kinda funky if you look at her from the wrong angle (but we’re funky no matter the angle, so while we love her we’re still jealous).

On another tangent, I just got my hands on your Soul of Baseball book. As a broke ph.d. student, if the local library don’t got it, I ain’t reading it….so here’s hoping that they get a hold of your Machine book relatively soon after it comes out. I’m on a baseball book kick lately, and just read Summer of ‘42 (a near-religious experience). So your Soul book is on deck, but you’re coming up after Halberstam, tough act to follow.

And finally, truer words have never been written than your take on Steve Phillips v. Carlos Beltran. My wife is a crazed Mets fan, and we have Extra Innings (or whatever that DirecTV package is called) so most of our baseball is ESPN-free…but she goes off on a rant anytime he shows up on the screen, which unfortunately is now every Sunday night. I’ve never been a big Miller/Morgan fan, but the SP addition is like adding a migraine headache to a previously tolerable head cold. Ugh.

I think they should put you, your wife and your brother on the cover of a magazine and do a story about a newspaper writer who is recording the essential demise of the newspaper industry while he, his wife and his brother all gain varying measures of celebrity. They made Kornheiser’s life into a sitcom. I’m willing to bet a Posnanski’s sitcom would have lasted at least enough seasons to secure a profitable syndication deal.

It definitely feels like Pittsburgh and Cleveland are both in the running to be the next city to have a quick run of championships in multiple sports. e.g. Boston

Or maybe we should make it Pennsylvania and Ohio.