Dave 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.
Fear - January 11, 2010
Edgar Belongs In Cooperstown and Ichiro Just Doesn’t
This one is sure to cause some controversy.
Janic - January 11, 2010
You're missing a very important word there
Ichiro Just Doesn’t Age
Brian Floyd - January 11, 2010
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http://www.lookoutlanding.com/2010/1/10/1244008/q-a-feedback#28653730
Eyeball Kid - January 11, 2010
Based on a quick faux order, yes, they will ship internationally.
Matthew - January 11, 2010
Awesome.
Eyeball Kid - January 11, 2010
Maybe I missed this in Dave's post
when does it go on sale? I could find no trace of it on their site.
Bearskin Rugburn - January 11, 2010
Beginning of March
JLC - January 11, 2010
Now I'm starting to feel a little bit spoiled
JLC - January 11, 2010
This is amazing.
I can’t wait to go buy a copy.
BrianL - January 11, 2010
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.
OceanBird - January 11, 2010
That lineup is ridiculously, from top to bottom, awesome.
lailaihei - January 11, 2010
Yes, it's an insane roster.
Certainly going to be worth the money I think.
Goose - January 11, 2010
But can they hit dingers?
Brian Floyd - January 11, 2010
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.
CapSea - January 11, 2010
I don't think either Dave or Art are those kinds of guys.
Steve Nelson - January 11, 2010
Not that there's anything wrong with that
Dewey N - January 11, 2010
It all depends
On their belief system
wandergeist - January 11, 2010
I'd give you my money now if I could.
Mariner John - January 11, 2010
Looking at all that earlier today.
I was expecting around $40 for this. For only $12.99, my goodness that’s a steal.
ThundaPC - January 11, 2010
The Evan Longoria of sports books.
stupidquestions - January 11, 2010
Yeah, I'm amazed it's under $20
I was thinking $19.99 at a minimum.
Don’t forget there are photos as well.
wandergeist - January 11, 2010
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?
Coach Owens - January 11, 2010
Yes sir
Dewey N - January 11, 2010
Wait can I get it signed?
Dewey N - January 11, 2010
I can sign my article and forge the signatures of the other authors if you want.
Matthew - January 11, 2010
Deal
Dewey N - January 11, 2010
Buy my book!
Janic - January 11, 2010
Do we have to pay 3.95 extra to read beyond the first several sentences of Jason Churchill's essay?
Bearskin Rugburn - January 11, 2010
Neat
Poochie - January 11, 2010
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.
lailaihei - January 11, 2010
It would take approximately 25 years' worth of ESPN The Magazine to get half as many good articles as are in this thing
pdb - January 11, 2010
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.
davidcameron - January 11, 2010
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.
Jeff Sullivan - January 11, 2010
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.
lailaihei - January 11, 2010
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.
Faux - January 12, 2010
Just think of all the nagging....
msb - January 12, 2010
I was amazed after reading what was going to be in the magazine.
Thanks for making this happen. Hope you had fun doing it!
Dewey N - January 11, 2010
Damn, this is just rediculious. I love it.
joof - January 11, 2010
This (and then Opening Day) can't come soon enough
xero3k - January 11, 2010
For the record I wrote two articles
Defense and Chone Figgins are separate topics.
Jeff Sullivan - January 11, 2010
x
End result?
Poochie - January 11, 2010
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.
Teej - January 11, 2010
Well, it wasn't that hard
I offered them money during a recession.
davidcameron - January 11, 2010
I hope you guys make a reasonable amount of money off this because goodness you don't get paid enough to be this good as bloggers
seattlebruin - January 12, 2010
This is awesome
Will be buying this post-haste.
OlSalty - January 11, 2010
Should make this required reading for joining LL.
hcoguy - January 11, 2010
I can't wait
Thank you so much!!!
Bohawk - January 12, 2010
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.
esoteric - January 12, 2010
When ordering, though...
be careful not to mix it up with this
msb - January 12, 2010
Lots of people here would love to get a book about sea men.
Faux - January 12, 2010
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