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FanGraphs Book Club - The Only Rule Is It Has To Work

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Glenstein

10:12

I felt you were being too hard on yourselves with the self-critical conclusion to the book. It seems like the Stompers were just hammered by the loss of talented players departing for better opportunities and it wasn't necessarily a failing from either of you guys.

The year after you wrote the book, my understanding is the Stompers had a really great season. Tacking that on at the end as an additional chapter could have made for a very uplifting ending. No real question there, I guess, but an observation.

Ben Lindbergh

10:13

We still should have been better at replacing those players!

10:14

I did write a bit about the following season in an afterword to the paperback edition. So go buy one of those, if you haven't already!

Sam

10:15

Tig Notaro works, too.

I don't remember whether we were too hard on ourselves, but we did a lot of stuff wrong! But of course we did. It was independent league baseball, where everybody is pretty bad; and we were learning on the fly. We had a REASON for being sort of bad. But I dumbly thought it would be easy.

10:16

We had pitchf/x in an independent league, and my friend if we turned it into even two runs I'd be shocked.

Paul Swydan

10:17

Maybe. Maybe that's one of the real lessons.

Alright, I think that we should call it a night. Thanks very much to everyone for coming through, this was really a lot of fun. Thanks especially to Ben and Sam for coming in and chatting with us. It's very much appreciated. I'll put up a poll in the Facebook group right now for the next book.

Sam

10:19

later

Paul Swydan

10:19

Night!

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