Good thing you haven't run out of colons.

I fixed it, Cooper. Other than that, what did you think.

Fun stuff, Chris. Must have been somewhat terrifying to interview him...would be for me, anyway.

John Thorn gave me a copy of Total Baseball-- Edition IV. For that, he is a good man.

Oh, the interview was good. :-) It's nice to put a human face on these famous (to us) names.

I like what Thorn said about sports:

"I love baseball above all sports, but I’d rather watch a hockey game. All the same, when I’m not watching hockey I never think about it all. When I’m not watching baseball, I’m always thinking about it."

I recently realized the same thing about myself with college basketball. I love WATCHING it (particularly Michigan State, my mom's alma mater, or Stanford, mine), but when the game is over I rarely think about it, and I have little interest in reading about it (sorry, newly launched Basketball Prospectus) or learning more about it. It's a diversion, not an obsession.

On the other hand, though I enjoy watching baseball in person or on TV, it's not really a must-see when it's on TV, and it's easy to turn off. But I THINK about baseball all the time, and read about it virtually every day, even in the winter.

Fun stuff, Chris. Must have been somewhat terrifying to interview him...would be for me, anyway.

Actually, I don't speak with the people I interview. I just e-mail 'em asking if they'd be willing to answer some questions - not over the phone, but by sending them a list of questions. Then I give them time to fill it out. This is the response.

#4, out of curiousity, what brought about this gift?

Oh. Well, that's less terrifying, to be sure.