Thanks. And yeah, I hadn’t been at Grantland (RIP) long enough to take that much time off last summer, so I powered through. Or slept-walk through, sometimes.

Sometimes!

If you can listen to audio, we explain how it happened in the first few minutes of this podcast episode: http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?ar…. Sam and I almost simultaneously came up with the idea during an interview with former Dodgers GM Dan Evans, and someone from the Stompers who knew ofour work got…

The Stompers have a Baseball-Reference page, so you can Google this easily. I won’t answer here as a courtesy to people who are still working their way through the book and don’t want to know how it ends.

He has not, and we will. Although in some ways our missteps may have made Goose look good.

I think we told Taylor and Sean before they joined the team, because we thought they would be receptive to the idea (and because the project helped explain why we were trying to recruit them). Occasionally we used it as incentive and played up the exposure/notoriety angle, but most players (particularly the ones we…

Mostly trying to avoid spoilers. And thanks! Glad you’re enjoying it.

We’re still involved, but not in the same capacity that we were last season. Anything else actually WOULD be a spoiler, so I’ll refrain from saying more.

A: Yes, will be on Audible on 5/17.
B: I felt guilty whenever I had to tell a player what he would be paid or nickel-and-dime him on travel because the Stompers couldn’t afford to spring for the whole bill. I guess that was the way I made myself feel better about it: NO ONE was making any money. Sam and I weren’t paid…

There hasn’t been any yet! We’re curious/apprehensive. It feels like waiting for the doctor to walk in and tell you to take off your pants.

Glad you liked it! It was “My Silver Lining.” I’m a fan too. I saw them at Webster Hall once, but I never expected to hear them playing over a Pacific Association PA.

Thanks for buying! To be honest, we went way over our initial word count but our editor let us keep almost everything in, so there wasn’t a lot left on the cutting-room floor. For me, one moment stands out. In August, my girlfriend (Jessie) and I went to Arnold Field to watch the Perseid meteor shower, because it was…

Sean Conroy slept on my couch last night! (He and his parents were in town for a book event.) Sean loves it, but of course he’s sort of the star of the story. I’m Facebook friends with a bunch of Stompers and have seen some buzz about it, but as far as I know none of them has actually cracked the cover. I’ve seen some…