SPL (Self Promotion Links)

Posted: July 2nd, 2009 | Filed under: Media | 14 Comments »

I don’t know why this excited me but if you go to The Machine link on Amazon now, you will actually see the cover of the book. It just makes it feel a bit more real. Remember 09/09/09 (still hoping to make 07/08/09 official “Buy The Machine” day … but not sure how you declare a holiday).

The cover is not on the Barnes & Noble page yet, but I’m sure it’s coming.

Also, I wrote a lot of words about Mariano Rivera.

Also, this is hilarious.

14 Comments on “SPL (Self Promotion Links)”

  1. 1: JeffSol said at 5:13 pm on July 2nd, 2009:

    Joe, really looking forward ot the book. Any chance it will be available for Kindle?

  2. 2: Spidur said at 10:24 pm on July 2nd, 2009:

    Joe, I read your Mo article via a link on Pete Abraham’s LoHud Yankee blog. I must bow in your direction for putting into words the awesomeness that is Mo. (I dread the day he decides he is done.)

    As for that poor, poor goalie…I can’t understand a word of Japanese, but I can imagine the profanities that might be streaming from the tv. Oy.

  3. 3: Anthony said at 2:51 am on July 3rd, 2009:

    I don’t understand Japanese, but are we sure the Royals don’t have a soccer franchise in Japan? I mean absolutely certain?

  4. 4: joe k said at 6:21 am on July 3rd, 2009:

    I can’t decide which is funnier, that video or the response from comment #3.

  5. 5: aaron said at 6:22 am on July 3rd, 2009:

    wow…thank you for writing about mo, just wow.

  6. 6: ceolaf said at 7:19 am on July 3rd, 2009:

    Sports writing has a tendency to go a bit over the the top, so I offer one little suggestion to combat that.

    People wrote *in* songs about him. People wrote *in* literature about him. The songs and literature were not about those fellows, rather those fellows were used to make larger points and to address larger themes. Those fellows — even though they were Yankees — were not the subject of those works you allude to and quote.

  7. 7: Mike I said at 9:12 am on July 3rd, 2009:

    Joe, that Mo piece was wonderful.

  8. 8: Roger Dorn said at 9:32 am on July 3rd, 2009:

    Are take the next stop from you’re last post to talk about this???!!

    http://www.ranyontheroyals.com/2009/07/banned.html

    THAT’S what stupid is

  9. 9: Mikey said at 9:45 am on July 3rd, 2009:

    On the day that Rivera is inducted into the Hall of Fame, whoever introduces him should save himself the trouble of writing a speech and just read this piece. Spectacular stuff.

  10. 10: Kyle Richardson (Fargo) said at 10:25 am on July 3rd, 2009:

    To Anthony, #3:

    Where do you think they found Trey Hillman?

  11. 11: JD said at 11:40 am on July 3rd, 2009:

    I don’t understand why that’s hilarious. Maybe it’s just that soccer is so unbelievably uninteresting to me that I can’t derive any humor or entertainment from it, but it looked to me like the goalie tried to make a play and failed.

    Can I get that minute of my life back?

  12. 12: Kevin said at 1:58 pm on July 3rd, 2009:

    My son the soccer player didn’t think that clip was funny either. His take: the defense needed to get back there, and they obviously could have been there because the blue guy got there.

  13. 13: Graphite said at 7:35 pm on July 3rd, 2009:

    I’d go for “amusing” rather than “hilarious” . . . but at least it sparked comments 3 & 10.

  14. 14: Frank Sobotka said at 7:17 pm on July 5th, 2009:

    The goalie’s thought process at least makes sense: the ball came off his defender and would have gone for the corner if it went out of bounds. He was trying to save the team from defending a setpiece and set up one of his defenders for a clearance. Unfortunately, his defenders were not on the same page and the end result looks foolish. I’m sure most coaches would have told the goalie to just concede the corner, but maybe his defense had been having trouble with setpieces or something.

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