Deadspin? Snuggies?
Posted: September 22nd, 2009 | Filed under: Media | 29 Comments »
OK, so a couple of book promoting events to mention to you.
One, it looks like a short excerpt from the book will run on Deadspin Thursday, and I will be doing something resembling a live chat at 1 p.m. Eastern. I say “Something resembling a live chat,” because I’m not entirely sure how it works … I’ve never really done a live chat before. I think it will mostly be a chance for people to rip me for an hour. I’m very excited.
I’m also very excited about a book event I’ll be doing in Kansas City on Sept. 29 at 7 p.m. The event will be in conjunction with Rainy Day Books and it will be at the Unity Temple on the Plaza. The reason I am looking forward to it is that I think I’m going to make it a blog event as much as a book event.
So, we can talk about the book, sure, but also about Harlequin Romances, Pixiefoods, Zack Greinke, the Movie Expectation Rating System, Brian Bannister, the creepy Burger King commercials, volumating while watching a DVD, Joe Mauer and so much more. And, yes, I am seriously considering coming out wearing a Snuggie.
You’ll want to come from far and wide for this one.
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Circle me snuggie!
I got the book in the mail Saturday, finished it Sunday. Terrific stuff. My only real complaint is that it could have been longer; I’d have loved to know more about the personal stories of the players, more behind-the-scenes stories, more about the baseball (and racial) culture of the city of Cincinnati and its relationship to the team, more about Howsam’s ideas. But what was there was great. I especially liked the last couple of chapters, with the recent interviews with Rose and others.
I imagine people who are too young to remember the ‘75 Reds and that year’s Series (I remember it well, I was 20) will enjoy it even more than I did, since much of it will be new to them.
Joe, will you be doing any book events in the Northeast (say, Boston)?
In re: #2, all great baseball books should be at least twice as long. I’d like still to be reading the Buck O’Neil tome I finished several years ago, and be about halfway through.
If the live chat is anything like the ESPN live chats, then people will be submitting questions, and you can pick the ones you want to answer and answer them.
Anyways, the tracking number from the Amazon order says the package arrived at my apartment complex, but the office says that no package has arrived. That makes me sad and angry at the same time. Sad because I’m not able to read the book, and angry because it means I wasted about $25 for a book I can’t read.
I may have to spring for an autographed copy off of Rainy Day Books…
So, Joe, I’ve finished your new book and it was of course excellent. As a fan of a decrepit team with a mostly irritated fanbase (that would be the O’s) it awoke in me a certain…something that I hadn’t really felt for more than a week at a time since the late ’90s.
Anyway: it was good. I think you should write a book about the 2009 Royals and call it “The Joy of Baseball”.
Joe….just snagged the book last week off Amazon…looking forward to the read….if you schedule a signing up in the great NW I know of at least one misplaced Royals fan who’d show up.
Any truth to the rumor that the only baseball that is broadcast in hell is non-Greinke Royals games between May-August? Might make a nice book
If you wear a snuggie and come out reading your book with the magic pop-up book light gift then it is the perfect scene.
If you come to Boston, I’ll wear the Snuggie!
Joe,
If you want to come for a book signing here in Denver, I’ve got a front row NLDS ticket with your name on it. Okay, it’s in right field, but it’s still the front row…. (And yes, I’m counting chickens.)
Were Joe to write about the glory years of the KC Royals, would it be published as ancient history or fiction?
Yeah, I read Deadspin from time to time, but basically they are just the TMZ of sports and specialize in trying to humilate and embarass people when not having long lasting lust sessions going gaga over Erin Andrews. Good luck, Joe.
Ray C, or any male Snuggie owners–is there any way to go to the bathroom without taking it off?
I’m actually disappointed to see that you’re doing an event on Deadspin. Deadspin is lower than dog vomit and Denton, Leitch and Daulerio are scumbags.
I understand that a writer has to promote, but they are horrible. They are the absolute worst in cheap, unsubstantiated sports gossip.
What’s your favorite moment in Deadspin history? Was it when they slandered Stuart Scott for sending a text message? Or when they stalked Erin Andrews for three years for having the nerve to be a pretty girl doing a visible job? How about when they spent half a year ridiculing people who were uncool enough to feel sorry for a dead racehorse?
Hey, did you hear? Chris Berman may or may not have been flirting with a woman at a bar twenty years ago! Tee-hee!!
Sorry for the mean-spirited post. My opinion: That site is beneath you and the 500 visitors they’ll have at the time of your chat are worthless.
Are you coming anywhere near Rochester, NY during these promotions?
Hey, any site that can pull off an FJM reunion is more than alright by me.
And sometimes I’d rather watch some dips__t take a drunken fall at a stadium via a cellphone camera than read as Pat Forde attempts to convince me that he knows what the hell he’s talking about.
There’s a place for objective journalism, and there’s a place for dick jokes. Sometimes, I just want to read sport-related dick jokes.
Finished the Machine – Loved It.
Joe, Your next book should be on the 2010 Royals – should be epic.
I bought the book last week, but I just realized the binding is broken. Grr…
I fully intend to read the book as soon as I finish Middlesex.
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Joe, I went to Barnes and Noble to buy your book but I couldn’t find it amidst the labyrinth of Dan Brown display tables.
Mikey hates dick jokes, yet he can’t stop reading them and shaking his fist with furious anger.
I was wondering… If Joe Morgan is really sure that Billy Beane wrote “moneyball”. Then Joe Morgan must have written “The machine”. So he’s just as pretentious as Billy Beane; Or am I missing something?
Relax. Joe’s appearance on Deadspin is just warming him up for the inevitable week on “Around The Horn” …
21 – Who’s talking about dick jokes? I’m talking about relentless harassment of people who have done nothing wrong. I’m no fan of Stuart Scott but what they did to him was indefensible. Or would you like to defend publishing a married man’s innocuous text messages and concluding that he’s having an affair?
I haven’t read Deadspin in over a year, which puts me in the company of 99.9% of the country. Check their pathetic numbers.
24: Digressing, but Stuart Scott, Chris Berman, Stephen A. Smith and Sean Salisbury are about as deserving of ridicule as anyone in sports. Stuart Scott says his text messages were innocuous. There was circumstantial basis to think otherwise. It’s not as if ESPN, as a corporate culture, is a stranger to sexual harassment, sexual solicitation or adulterous relationships (see, e.g., ESPN: The Uncensored History).
And as for the Barbaro lovers, I can understand being emotional about an animal. But cloying prose about one that was never part of your life? THAT should be off limits from ridicule?!
(I know it’s a minority viewpoint, but as DL Hughley says, call me what you want. What I answer to is up to me. Indulging people’s sensitivities has only made people more and more thin-skinned.)
Anyway, DS is often funny, particularly some of the commenters (I have a comment regarding an insensitive portrayal of a Chinese person bookmarked, it never fails to make me laugh). It’s declined since Leitch left; it seems a little nastier now, just like Philly/East Coast types are a little (OK, a lot) nastier than Midwesterners (and I happen to be an East Coast type myself, who comes to this site specifically for the courteous level of the comments, and of course, Joe’s unparalleled writing skill). But it still has an audience of reasonably informed, intelligent sports fans. If the comments of the audience are any indicator, I’d put its audience up against ESPN or Sportsline any time.
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But if you want to ridicule SAS, Berman, etc., do it by breaking down their on-air work, ala FJM.
I did read the ESPN book. You could write the same book and make the same allegations about any large company in America.
I know there are some really bright people who enjoy DS, including apparently a number of readers here. I think it represents all the worst elements of blogging culture and Gawker Media really is a sleazy company. But that’s just me.
Joe, long-time reader and former Kansas City resident here. I read The Machine in six days and it was absolutely fantastic. I couldn’t put it down. I was looking for excuses to run outside for a smoke or into the bathroom to read another ten pages.
Thanks again for your fantastic blog and your incomparable writing.
Michael Robbins
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