Joe's Blog

Saves and RBI....Oh, How I Love Thee.

Learning Curves. Hmm, see a few novels have already used it, maybe add the colon phrase "15 Years Spent Learning Why I've Always Loved Baseball".

Platooning Ryan Howard, and Other Provocations

"An Anthology of One"

(Basically a mash of the slogan "An Army of One" and "The Baseball Anthology" -- think of a collection of essays by a disparate group of writers, but here it is a group of essays reflecting many facets of one diamond-obsessed mind.)

"Sheehan Things My Way: 15 Years of Iconoclastic Bsaeball Commentary"

or "Sheehan Is Believin'" with the same subhead.

Sheehan as in Wreck

Joe is writing a book? Sweet. When can I place my order?

"Say It Ain't Joe: Joe Sheehan on the Game and Business of Baseball."

I look forward to this book!

A Pastime Betrayed? How Obama and the Democrats Are Destroying America's Game

Grab it before Hannity does.

"Economically Literate Pitches"

Sheehan's Baseball Perspective

A Cuppa Joe

Unclogging the Basepaths: 15 Years of Debunking Baseball's Most Inane Commentary

They Shoot Statheads, Don't They? 15 Years of Analyzing Baseball by Joe Sheehan

Just A Bit Outside: 15 Years As A Profession Baseball Fan

Or maybe change the subtitle, like Views From A Professional Baseball Fan, or something.

Three True Outcomes: Why I Love, Hate, and Write about Baseball
by Joe Sheehan with Rob Deer

Can't Anybody Here Analyze This Game?

Ryan Howard is The Best First Baseman in Baseball: And Other Lies That ESPN Told Us.

great suggestions! please comment rate them accordingly.

I've heard that the maverick publisher of Joe's book thinks industry standard precious dozen-word subtitles are ridiculous.

"Beer and Tacos: Have Both!"

Baseball Mistakes

There's Only One Word for It: You Never Know Enough About Baseball

Still crazy after all these years, or, the colour of baseball money.

How I Know What Isn't So

Murray Chass is a Grouchy Dolt & Other Observations.

"Fewer Strikes, More Balls"

The Sixth Tool

That's What He Said

Peeling the Onion.

(The visual for the cover could be really cool, with a combined onion and baseball, and the "truths" that get discovered the more you peel away the surface and get towards the core.)

I Am Baseball, and So Can You!

Going the Other Way: The Evolution of Baseball

No Pepper (except for Joe)

Tuesday's with Torre.

Hello Baseball! Goodbye Logic!

You don't need a title. Just use the graphic from the BP homepage, a giant photo of your face on the cover. That's all it really needs, right?

"Say It Ain't So, Joe!"

Reference to the media's attitude towards advanced metrics slowly replacing barbaric ideas like pitcher W-L records, AVG, and RBI.

"Las Penas del Outsider Informado"

Oh, well, that'll qualify for the spanish edition. In any case, I'm looking forward to it, Joe.

Joe Sheehan: The Missing Link

"Palin's Guide To High Brow Baseball"

Vampires: A VORP Story

"Joe Sheehan's WARPed Mind"

Intentional Walks: 15 years of baseball analysis and musings

Funny Moneyball
written by Billy Beane

"Carlos Pena is Better than Ryan Howard, and Other Mistakes in Judgment" by Joe Sheehan.

Your Opinion Counts: From newsgroup ranter to influential columnist - 15 years of loving the game.

Sheehan on Steroids

Balk

The Intentional Mocking of Ruben Amaro.

Baseball Managers Were Put on this Earth to Make Astrologers Look Good: 15 Years of Analysing Inane and Stupid Decisions

"Sheehan My Dad Says"
or
"Tuesdays With Torii"

Fifteen Years of Joy in Mudville

Tim McCarver's Baseball for Brain Surgeons and Other Fans: Understanding and Interpreting the Game So You Can Watch It Like a Pro.

Wait, that one's already inexplicably taken by Tim McCarver.

One that you obviously can't use but I wish you could:

Baseball For Dummies Like Dusty Baker, Joe Morgan and Tim McCarver

Sheehan Red: Why Everything Joe Morgan Says About Baseball is Wrong

Everything I Know Is Wrong: A Thinking Fan's Guide to Baseball

or just ... A Thinking Fan's Guide To Baseball

Myth Understood: Baseball for the Thinking Fan

Truthian Proportions: Baseball's Biggest Lies

Smarter Than Avg. --- a fan's guide to the stats, bats and boneheads that changed baseball forever.

A Head in the Count: 15 years in baseball's statistical revolution.

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: what ESPN, announcers and other so-called experts don't know about baseball could fill a book.

From First to Third: One Man's Analytical Journey

Jeezuz pobo...couldn't you have put all million of your entires in one comment?


Also (unrelated), there seem to be a lot of angry Phillies fans around here.

"Who is Bill Pecota? A Compendium of Baseball Articles by No Ordinary Joe"

Joe Sheehan: Baseball Reporter WRITER

A Collection of Baseball Analysis


^The 2nd line is optional (as is the first, I guess).

"The War on Baseball Ignorance"

"Calmer than you are"

Sheehan Madness

"Taking the Fun Out of the Game (By Knowing Stuff About It)"

Billy Beane Didn't Write Moneyball and other corrections of Joe Morgan.

1)I like the fact that you are going to the community for the book title.

2)I think a lot of the suggestions are either too clever, or revolve too much on Joe's name.

3)My suggestion is a little more conventional, but still has a baseball/BP/double meaning:
Outside Pitch.

"Blown Leads"

"Putting the "Anal" in Analysis - A New Look at an Old Game"

"The Human Element"

He Said, Sheehan Said.

Joe Blow on the Show!!!

The Other 28 Nights in August