OK, we will! Thanks for chatting, everyone, and thanks to Mr. Marchman for hosting.

It’s probably made me less confident that there’s always such a simple solution to teams’ problems that we can diagnose and solve them from afar.

As for the second question, we just did a podcast about that: http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?ar….

More if we also had additional time to plan and implement our ideas. If the season were the same length, probably almost the same.

Yes, unless he was so depressed to be busted back to the Pacific Association that he lost his lust for life. Wouldn’t even be fun for him from a meteorological perspective. The weather in Sonoma is the same every day.

I really like lanyards, though. If someone gave me a good lanyard with a team ID attached to it, it would be tough to walk away.

Yes. The odds are against everyone, but we’re pretty confident that a handful of guys from the team could hack it at least in the lower levels of affiliated ball. For most of them, that’s probably the ceiling, so they might not get the chance. But we’re pulling for them. Dylan Stoops is moving up to the Frontier…

Yeah. And each of us did so much reading and revising of the other’s chapters that both of our POVs are represented in most of the places where it would make sense.

Don’t know, but you can find him on Twitter @octonion.

I had very little spare time to enjoy the area, unfortunately, and my knowledge of wine doesn’t go much deeper than calling the color correctly. I tagged along to a tasting or two when my girlfriend went. And the Stompers had a partnership with Leese-Fitch, so Arnold Field had “Wine Wednesdays.”

I probably wouldn’t be much fun at either.

Your efforts are appreciated. Email us at our podcast address and we’ll see if we can spare a bookplate. (We’re running low right now.)

He’s gonna be pissed if he was planning for his Stompers weekend to be the basis of the sequel to the sequel to Juiced.

Last year’s Stompers concessions stuff was basic ballpark fare—the deluxe hot dogs weren’t bad?—but this season should be a big step up. One of our advance scouts from last season, Kortney, is a professional chef/caterer from Louisiana, and he made amazing gumbo for the team a couple times. This year he’s in charge of…

I wanted to at one time, but I changed course after a baseball ops internship, in part because I realized I wasn’t as qualified as many other aspirants. It all worked out well in the end. Talked about it in the book.

Of course I remember Andrew. And I was at Scorsese also! (This answer must be super-interesting to everyone else in the thread.)

You failed! http://www.sonomanews.com/home/4230794-1…

I have a greater appreciation for how hard to handle those things often are. It depends what the manager’s motivation is—if he thinks the clubhouse concerns actually outweigh the potential on-field benefits, OK, but if he’s just trying to avoid an uncomfortable conversation, he should probably be better than that. Sam…

Less, I think, although even before the book I had lost most of my desire to do that. (Not that anyone wanted me to.) But I think the Stompers experience helped me purge any lingering front-office itch from my system. I kinda did get to do it, in a smaller-scale way.

Yes, that definitely made the spreadsheet signees more receptive to us. And we were probably more invested in their success than we were with the players who’d predated us, since we wanted to seem smart and special and feel like we were contributing.

We would both be extremely tempted to try it again because 1) it was fun and 2) we think we’d be better at it the second time. No plans at present, though. The time commitment is such that there would have to be another book-type project attached.