Have you ever had the suspicion that your life consists largely of booted ground balls,

bad throws to first, and occasionally being picked off of second base, and maybe every once

in a while you make good, solid contact.

That rises higher and higher and higher out over that upper deck and into the street

for a blast of 475 feet.

Fowl.

Well, comrades, colleagues, and cranks, I've written the book for you.

Metropolitan's, New York baseball, class struggle, and the people's team.

It's a Marxist history of baseball in which the Mets emerged the Messianic main character.

So please, pre-order from penguin, bookshop.org, Amazon. Or better yet, your local bookstore,

you can ask them to sell it if they don't sell it. If they say, why would we sell it? We aren't

located in the United States. No one here really knows what baseball is. Tell them that it's

crucial to the future of humanity that they sell it. If you are in the U.S., go to your local ballpark,

say, please, stock, metropolitans. It's a book about baseball. It's very important.

And they might tell you, we don't sell any books here. And then you say, that's part of the problem.

That's why basketball and football are more popular than baseball. And that's why, on April 1st, 2026, I'm going to the powerhouse arena in Brooklyn.

It's not a stadium like it sounds.

It's actually a bookstore that calls itself an arena because it has a bunch of book launch events, including mine.

It's going to be on April 1st at 7 o'clock with Bradford William Davis, who's a great sports writer, the New York Daily News, GQ, and his own blog, I-Black.

Tickets for that event and all the other pre-order information will be in the podcast description.

I do appreciate if you pre-order the book, that means getting it today or tomorrow,

basically, before Wednesday, which is the official release, because that just helps algorithmically

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