BELIEVENIKS!

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Now they'll never come back.

[Guest mlbaseballtalk]

ScarletKnight41 wrote: OK - I'll give them that benefit of the doubt.

By the way, Matt Loughlin didn't know it either, and this was late, late June. Loughlin once thought a kid with a Vote For Pedro sign was imploring fans to vote for Pedro Martinez for the All Star Game!

Come again? No doubt Loughlin was unware of the fact that players now vote for reserves and pitchers (its never mentioned, ever, many in the mass media think the entire non-starting roster is still selected by the manager) so really when has ANY pitcher EVER been voted for the All Star Game!

So cut them a little slack there

[Guest sharpie]

BELIEVENIKS! not making many believers (this from NY Magazine):

Jonathan Lethem and Christopher Sorrentino, high-school friends turned New York literary superstars, wrote a book together�but no one knew about it (until now). The duo wanted to take a playful poke at book-world scams, and do it anonymously. �Riffing on authorial fraud� is how Sorrentino, whose Trance won the National Book Award last year, puts it. Believeniks!, the resulting highbrow goof, is no blockbuster. Three months in, the hyperliterary account of the Mets� 2005 season (Lethem, pictured, writes as Harry Conklin, �a two-time fellow at the Chipwich Writers� Colony,� Sorrentino as Ivan Felt, �Distinguished Professor of Commodity Aesthetics�) has sold 460 copies, according to BookScan. �A classic failure,� jokes Sorrentino. (Publisher Doubleday claims 8,635 copies sold; the discrepancy may be owed to BookScan�s underrepresenting indie-bookstore sales.) When the tome was released, Sorrentino and Lethem denied involvement. Why lie? �This isn�t something enormous claims need to be made for,� says Lethem. �Some things need to find their own place in their own world, even if it�s a small one.�