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by Matthew on Jan 11, 2010 7:14 PM PST
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PrintDave Cameron did a ton of work putting together a really neat project for Mariner fans this Spring. It was mentioned at the Q&A and there's some more details now, including a list of articles including:
Larry Stone: An In Depth Interview With Don Wakamatsu About Baseball Strategy.
Art Thiel: Griffey’s Return To Seattle
Jonah Keri: How Lou Gorman Built The 1977 Mariners
Geoff Baker: The Franchise Turnaround
Shannon Drayer: Ryan Rowland-Smith’s Road To The Bigs
Jeff Sullivan: The Actual Value Of Defense and Chone Figgins Is Better Than You Think
Vince Gennaro: The Secondary Value Of Defense
Dave Allen: Pitch F/x Tackles Cliff Lee
Matthew Carruth: Effects of Safeco’s Asymmetry
Derek Zumsteg: Edgar Belongs In Cooperstown and Ichiro Just Doesn’t Age
Jay Yencich: Top 10 Prospects
Jason Churchill: Dustin Ackley’s Future
Jon Shields: Catcher Of The Future (Adam Moore)
Dave Cameron: The Maturation Of Felix Hernandez
It's 128 advertisement free pages of brand new, and exclusive, content for $12.99. Seriously, the blogosphere is too nice to you people. This is something like 50,000 words put together in a super high quality production complete with Getty images. Dave gives all the relevant details about the book in the thread, here, so I suggest going there for the more detailed scoop including where to order.
And yes, you will be able to order it online.
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I'm already getting ready to buy it as a birthday present for my dad.
His birthday is in March so it’s perfect.
Now with more lemon bars!
Edgar Belongs In Cooperstown and Ichiro Just Doesn’t
This one is sure to cause some controversy.
Maybe I missed this in Dave's post
when does it go on sale? I could find no trace of it on their site.
De Gutibus non disputandum est
by Bearskin Rugburn on Jan 11, 2010 7:25 PM PST reply actions
Art Thiel!
What the fuck, I haven’t read one of his articles in ages. I look forward to this, especially the Rowland-Smith piece. An Aussie in the Major Leagues is just 100% awesome.
Carlos Silvelite
That lineup is ridiculously, from top to bottom, awesome.
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I'd stick Dave Cameron in the 2 hole before Art Thiel.
But we’ll see what the Wak piece says about his lineup strategy come spring training release.
...and now I'm here
I don't think either Dave or Art are those kinds of guys.
by Steve Nelson on Jan 11, 2010 8:47 PM PST up reply actions 7 recs
Looking at all that earlier today.
I was expecting around $40 for this. For only $12.99, my goodness that’s a steal.
Yeah, I'm amazed it's under $20
I was thinking $19.99 at a minimum.
Don’t forget there are photos as well.
by wandergeist on Jan 11, 2010 10:34 PM PST up reply actions
So is it called the 2010 Mariners Annual or what?
I don’t think Dave specifies a name other than capitalizing those two words. So I assume that is its name?
A Mariners fan in Seattle
Do we have to pay 3.95 extra to read beyond the first several sentences of Jason Churchill's essay?
De Gutibus non disputandum est
by Bearskin Rugburn on Jan 11, 2010 8:17 PM PST reply actions 12 recs
Damn, I was just going through that list again and I was going to highlight the top 2-3 articles I most look forward to...
But there’s not a single one there that I’ll skim over. It would take like 25 issues of ESPN the magazine to get this many must-read articles. Maybe the least interesting one at the surface is the Edgar one, only because I already know he belongs in Cooperstown, but I’m sure it will be magnificent because of Derek’s writing prowess.
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Derek's piece on Edgar is pretty darn good
It’s classic Derek. It’s meandering, it’s funny, it’s passionate, it’s random, and there’s an analogy or two in there that will shock you, then make you shake your head, then make you laugh.
If that’s the worst thing in the magazine, we’re going to win a Pulitzer.
by davidcameron on Jan 11, 2010 9:35 PM PST up reply actions
No matter how many people express their gratitude to you, it won't be enough
Attention, readers of this website: you will never understand how much work Dave had to do behind the scenes to make this happen.
by Jeff Sullivan on Jan 11, 2010 9:42 PM PST up reply actions
We really have the best blogosph<3re on the planet.
The two giant awesome blogs supplemented by other great ones, the biannual event, the huge and smart fanbase, and now the yearly annual filled to the brim with only the best writers from the blogosphere and print media… I am glad I grew up a Mariners fan, even if we’ve had almost all bad years since I started really paying attention.
And I’m sure Derek’s Edgar article will be spectacular, I’m really looking forward to his Ichiro one, too. Just Edgar may be the most tired of all the topics in this thing (given the recent HoF voting, although I’m sure I’ll be ready to read it by the time I can get my hands on a copy).
I’m going to brag to my Yankees fan buddy and then tell him how much his blogosphere sucks.
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by lailaihei on Jan 11, 2010 9:55 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Recommended just for blogosph<3re
For me it’s the bLLogoshpere, because I really only read here and branch out from there when pointed elsewhere, but for almost everyone else I can see how that would work beautifully.
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I was amazed after reading what was going to be in the magazine.
Thanks for making this happen. Hope you had fun doing it!
This is so tits.
It looks like something I will read cover-to-cover the day it shows up. I can’t say that about a lot of baseball books.
Kudos to Dave for managing to get original material from a truly remarkable lineup of writers.
Well, it wasn't that hard
I offered them money during a recession.
by davidcameron on Jan 11, 2010 9:56 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
This is awesome
Will be buying this post-haste.
Sometimes I just feel so fucking spoiled to be a M's fan.
How is it that I stumbled ass-over-elbows into rooting for a team with a greater online presence of bloggers, columnists, sabermetricians, and journalists than any other sports franchise?
I don’t spend money on stuff like this as a rule. Pretty much the only baseball book I own or care about is Bill James’ Historical Abstract. But I’ll get this one. As lailaihei said: I can’t even think of what I’d SKIP in this collection.
Looking forward to DMZ’s Edgar piece. Dave did a fine job of “selling” it above.
Jigsaw falling into place
When ordering, though...
be careful not to mix it up with this
by msb on Jan 12, 2010 8:43 AM PST reply actions 1 recs
Lots of people here would love to get a book about sea men.
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