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PostPosted: Tue Sep 12, 2017 10:53 pm 
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The publisher needs to make a correction to this one...

15 years talking sports and 10 years nodding his head and saying "I agree" through an ISDN line

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I'm not in a hurry to endure Terry Boers' best in-print Dick Vermeil impersonation.

Those "essays" he wrote and read aloud in his last year or so were entirely too sappy - for my tastes, at least.

It didn't really strike me as good writing, either.

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It didn't really strike me as good writing, either.

Certainly not with the way you use commas.

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PostPosted: Wed Sep 13, 2017 8:39 am 
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You don't hear Terry's name used much at the station. I wonder how much his great friends have kept in contact with him and vice versa?

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Panther pislA wrote:
It didn't really strike me as good writing, either.

Certainly not with the way you use commas.

Um, no.

http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/educat ... -comma-too

Using the comma is entirely my prerogative, Newbie!

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PostPosted: Wed Sep 13, 2017 9:07 am 
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Terry was on with Dan and Jason for the Derby. I guess that was a while ago.

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Will it sell over 10k copies?

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312player wrote:
Will it sell over 10k copies?


Under. Not enough market I would say.

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312player wrote:
Will it sell over 10k copies?


Under. Not enough market I would say.


I think you're right. Even if it's a good book the audience for it is relatively small.


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pittmike wrote:
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Will it sell over 10k copies?


Under. Not enough market I would say.


I think you're right. Even if it's a good book the audience for it is relatively small.


Yeah it's definitely a niche market.

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Yep, that sounds about right


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pittmike wrote:
312player wrote:
Will it sell over 10k copies?


Under. Not enough market I would say.

He would sell many more if he offered digital copies, but it looks like he may have some sort of Luddite-esque paranoia about someone sending around his work for free.

This will probably hurt the sales - big time.

If I was even going to think of buying this book, it would have to be an incredibly easy venture that could indulge my impulse-buying side - a la digital, "buy now-read now".

That will never happen with a paperback that arrives via snail mail.

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Panther pislA wrote:
pittmike wrote:
312player wrote:
Will it sell over 10k copies?


Under. Not enough market I would say.

He would sell many more if he offered digital copies, but it looks like he may have some sort of Luddite-esque paranoia about someone sending around his work for free.

This will probably hurt the sales - big time.

If I was even going to think of buying this book, it would have to be an incredibly easy venture that could indulge my impulse-buying side - a la digital, "buy now-read now".

That will never happen with a paperback that arrives via snail mail.


Digital will be available as well.

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Buy one bad book get one free? These have to be a combo purchase, right?

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Buy one bad book get one free? These have to be a combo purchase, right?

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I could never read an Ed Sherman book without thinking of that horrible nasally voice.

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You don't hear Terry's name used much at the station. I wonder how much his great friends have kept in contact with him and vice versa?
Timing is everything. He sounds pretty friendly with B&G right now.

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Probably the greatest book of all-time.

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Requirements for me to read this book:
1) A chapter on TB Diddlers
2) An unedited chapter on the Jordan years

I won't hold my breath

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I also won't miss the 1-2 times a year he writes a column, the over the top reaction that people like Holmes give to it, acting like it's a work of art.


Like when he complained about the filthy Deadheads trekking to Tinley Park every year? The Grateful Dead played one three-show run there in the summer of 1990, but he remembered them tying up traffic every year.

Did. Not. Happen.

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I also won't miss the 1-2 times a year he writes a column, the over the top reaction that people like Holmes give to it, acting like it's a work of art.


Like when he complained about the filthy Deadheads trekking to Tinley Park every year? The Grateful Dead played one three-show run there in the summer of 1990, but he remembered them tying up traffic every year.

Did. Not. Happen.



The smell lingered for years thereafter.

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About halfway through. Nothing really Earth shattering yet other than the mention that Abbatacola never really liked Bernstein. Chapters alternate between personal and professional.

Gives great credit for the Score's success to Ditka and the legitimacy he lent the station.

About to dig into the Murph chapter.

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Is the book ample enough to provide protection in a tornado?

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PostPosted: Wed Nov 01, 2017 11:15 pm 
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Nah it's a quick 200 pages or so.

Nothing new in the Murph chapter other than a story about 2 of Murph's producers wanting to jump him in the parking lot and beat him with socks full of nickels.

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Nah it's a quick 200 pages or so.

Nothing new in the Murph chapter other than a story about 2 of Murph's producers wanting to jump him in the parking lot and beat him with socks full of nickels.


Is it true that Bernsie beat the shit out of his kid in the parking lot after he said the Bears were "flat"?

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That's what my guy says. Yep.

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Nothing really Earth shattering yet other than the mention that Abbatacola never really liked Bernstein. .


There are a lot of people who owe Beardown an apology.

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Finished it up last night. Only other memorable chapters were on his health issues and the hell he went through. I can't believe he stayed on the air as long as he did.

Nice little read.

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Finished it up last night. Only other memorable chapters were on his health issues and the hell he went through. I can't believe he stayed on the air as long as he did.

Nice little read.


What did his health issues end up being?

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