Hi, welcome to the podcast. I am Joe Posnansky, and with me is Michael Shore. Michael, welcome.

Thank you for having me, Joe. You are welcome. They're kind of a little bit of a, like a, like a sneaky happiness.

Well, I am, I am in a very good mood for many reasons, starting with the fact that in the mail,

two days ago, arrived a book, a book from one of my favorite writers, Joe Posnansky. What?

Called why we love baseball and history in 50 moments. It's sitting right here on my desk. I'm very

excited about this. And I feel like we do this thing. One of the many ways in which you and I

are bad at podcasting, which I think you've been well documented. We, we talk for way too long.

We have no organizational skills. We don't plan anything. We didn't realize until six years in that

you could have a professional microphone to make you sound good. That's right. We didn't realize

until eight years in that you could have guests come on the show and make sure more interesting. Yeah,

well, again, well documented that we're terrible at this. However, another way that we are bad at

this is that you and I have both had projects that you can use a podcast to advertise. And usually

we don't get into the fact that you've written a new book until like an hour 16 into the podcast.

I think that it's appropriate today here in mid August with this book coming out in a matter of

days that we lead off the podcast by saying Joe incredibly to everyone's great surprise has

written a book. It's called Why We Love Baseball History in 50 moments. I'm holding it in my hand

and it's extremely exciting that this is finally here. I am very, very excited. And there are a

couple of things that I need to be said right up front about it. First of all, I am not the only

person who wrote Why We Love Baseball. Why We Love Baseball has a couple of special guest appearances

I want to say. That's right. One of which is Michael Shore. That's right. Michael Shore wrote a

chapter in this book. And not only did he write a chapter in this book, he wrote a chapter.

The assignment, it wasn't even an assignment because as far as I remember, I never asked you.

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