I have gotten some e-mails recently asking about my absence from this site for the last week, and somebody said that he hoped I was only vacation. I wish! I wish I was only on vacation.
The Bill James Baseball Handbook will be available about November 1. That means it goes to the printer on October 15. The baseball season ended on October 3. That means that between October 4 and October 15, we have to write the book. It’s a bit of a chore.
95% of the work of producing the book is done by other people, but I have to try to chip in. In the past week I have written somewhere between 70 and 100 pages worth of material. It’s exhausting. I stay up all night, go to bed in the morning, and mostly I don’t sleep well. It interferes with my ability to get my exercise done, my ability to eat in a normal and healthy fashion. It is hard on my dog and my wife, and I really do not have ANY time to give to this site; sorry about that.
But I’ll be done in a day or two, and I’ll be back on a normal sleep schedule a day or two after that. Life will resume. Go Red Sox.