WTTB: Is the American League Terrible?
Wandering Through The Boxscores Again
Before we start wandering through the box scores… Father’s Day is in two days, and I know you haven’t gotten your dad a gift because, let’s be honest, you always wait until the last minute.
So, let’s see what the Queen of America thinks you should get:
Hmm. That seems like good advice. And more good advice from the incomparable Ryan George. We went to a hockey game in Montreal together — actually, it was Ryan, his amazing sister Meghan, his wonderful father Gary, and a glorious neighbor named Jérémie Francoeur, who was brought along to provide the full French Canadian experience — and it was the most quintessential Canadian experience imaginable.
Also, there’s this fantastic review in America Magazine, which calls BIG FAN, “the best book I’ve ever read about what it feels like to be a fan.”
You can get BIG FAN at your favorite book-filling station. You don’t have to get it for your father, you know. I mean, you didn’t really get anything great for your mother on Mother’s Day, did you?
Some other quick notes:
In this week’s special Father’s Day PosCast, we welcome Mike’s son William to defend the way he eats bananas and clap back at his dad for calling him “Jerk Son” all these years.
I’m hoping to reveal the new cover for my new book FIFTY SEASONS very soon — like VERY soon. The book is a countdown of the fifty individual baseball seasons that echo through the years (along with a few baseball stories that echo), and I’m putting the final touches on it right now, and I’m SO excited about it. Let me just give you four names that might speak to you. Mark Fidrych. Pete Reiser. Dwight Gooden. Joe Charboneau. I’ll leave it there.
I’m also trying to think up the best preorder campaign ever because I don’t think I’m going to write a book quite like this ever again. I was thinking of going back — one last time — to inscribing the book however you like. But if you have a better idea, please feel free to leave it in the comments.
OK, for you Clubhouse members, let’s wander through the box scores. A couple of weeks ago, I tried this for the first time — using the wonderful old-school box scores I get daily in my inbox — and you seemed to like it. So here goes.
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The Standings
OK, does the American League stink?
It sure looks to me that the American League might stink.
