{"id":593,"date":"2006-01-23T01:45:49","date_gmt":"2006-01-23T06:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/?p=593"},"modified":"2006-01-23T01:45:49","modified_gmt":"2006-01-23T06:45:49","slug":"book-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/?p=593","title":{"rendered":"Book it!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently, in an attempt to finish a whole slew of books (read: 3 or 4) that I’ve bought or received throughout the years, I re-cracked open this one<\/a>. It’s written by Ken Levine, who worked as a writer on “Cheers” and “M*A*S*H”, among other efforts, then put parts of that aside to chase the dream of being a major league baseball announcer. I bought it my sophomore (maybe freshman) year of college, as both a fan of “Cheers” and an aspiring announcer, but for some reason, never got more than about a third of the way through. I don’t know why. As I picked it up again, it’s a very amusing book, with shades of the type of humor Bill Simmons used<\/em> to be good at before his head got too big for Tom Brady’s britches.<\/p>\n

Even better, it covers the 1991 season, when baseball was still relatively simple, broadcasters were still shocked by $3 million salaries, and not only was “fantasy baseball” still called a “rotisserie league”, but scores, schedules, and league news was left as a message on the commissioner’s answering machine. I recently finished a book by Howard Cosell that focused on a similar time-frame, when it was much easier to care about sports, even if Cosell’s book did focus mostly on the corruption that was going down at the time.<\/p>\n

Not sure what book might be next, but there are some re-reads I wouldn’t mind going through, and I guess there’s always the possibility of finding something new.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recently, in an attempt to finish a whole slew of books (read: 3 or 4) that I’ve bought or received throughout the years, I re-cracked open this one. It’s written by Ken Levine, who worked as a writer on “Cheers” and “M*A*S*H”, among other efforts, then put parts of that aside to chase the dream … Continue reading Book it!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}