{"id":4683,"date":"2024-10-14T08:38:23","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T04:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4683"},"modified":"2024-10-14T08:38:23","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T04:38:23","slug":"schlossbergs-book-is-a-beautiful-waste-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4683","title":{"rendered":"Schlossberg’s book is a beautiful waste of time"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes you read a book and think\u00a0damn, I wish I’d written this first<\/em>. That’s what I think with every line I read from my “new” book, Dan Schlossberg’s\u00a0Baseball Bits<\/em>. I say new because it was written in 2008, but most of the\u00a0bits<\/em> are from like the 1930s so it still plays. Basically just imagine a giant list of interesting things about baseball. And yeah, that’s it. It’s perfect.<\/p>\n

The only trouble is, it takes me about 20 minutes to read each page, as I have to look up every little fact and take a deeper dive into the stats and circumstances. Invariably it leads down a weird rabbit hole (is there any other kind?) and I find myself investigating airspeed velocities of unladen swallows or some such thing.<\/p>\n

So yeah, it’s just about perfect.<\/p>\n

But damn I wish I thought to write it first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sometimes you read a book and think\u00a0damn, I wish I’d written this first. That’s what I think with every line I read from my “new” book, Dan Schlossberg’s\u00a0Baseball Bits. I say new because it was written in 2008, but most … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4684,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4683\/revisions\/4684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}