Thursday, January 10, 2008
Day 1 corrections and updates
The magazine arrived at my house last night, which should mean it will start showing up in stores early next week. Each year the battle to eradicate typos and fix mistakes before we print the thing gets more heated, and I think each year we've done a generally better job on the small stuff. But the schedule, weariness, the small staff, the miserable wages, all work against us. Over the coming weeks I"ll be chronicaling the things that went awry here, just so you know I'm paying attention.
Kosuke Fukudome: He was unsigned until the day the magazine shipped, and I put off making a projection or price for him because I thought there was some chance he'd sign in Japan. In retrospect that was wrong and I probably should have known it then. In any case, I'll project him soon, but I can say that my price for him today is $12. He's going to go for more than that in most NL leagues and he may earn it, but I'm not sure the power is going to translate, and I think it's a risk to think his transition is going to be seamless. It could happen, but coming off an injury and surgery and all, I'm not getting aggressive.
Akinori Otsuka: He had surgery yesterday. You can take the $12 I suggested for Otsuka and pay Fukudome with it. The comment suggests that surgery may be in the works, but didn't anticipate the Rangers releasing him. He's not a factor this year.
Page 160: That's the back page. Meryl Gordon is the spouse who wrote about her strategy to help her husband, Walter, win the American Dream League. I spelled her name right in the by line and the bio, but a late addition xref to Walter's story resulted in a misspelling. It's a terrible mistake to misspell someone's name and I'm sorry. I'm also sorry for a vicepresidentialish gaffe on the plural of Burrito in the article's art. Ouch.
I also found some bad grammar this afternoon but now I've lost it. Feel free to note more errors in the comments, or write me at askrotoman(at)gmail.com. Thanks.
Kosuke Fukudome: He was unsigned until the day the magazine shipped, and I put off making a projection or price for him because I thought there was some chance he'd sign in Japan. In retrospect that was wrong and I probably should have known it then. In any case, I'll project him soon, but I can say that my price for him today is $12. He's going to go for more than that in most NL leagues and he may earn it, but I'm not sure the power is going to translate, and I think it's a risk to think his transition is going to be seamless. It could happen, but coming off an injury and surgery and all, I'm not getting aggressive.
Akinori Otsuka: He had surgery yesterday. You can take the $12 I suggested for Otsuka and pay Fukudome with it. The comment suggests that surgery may be in the works, but didn't anticipate the Rangers releasing him. He's not a factor this year.
Page 160: That's the back page. Meryl Gordon is the spouse who wrote about her strategy to help her husband, Walter, win the American Dream League. I spelled her name right in the by line and the bio, but a late addition xref to Walter's story resulted in a misspelling. It's a terrible mistake to misspell someone's name and I'm sorry. I'm also sorry for a vicepresidentialish gaffe on the plural of Burrito in the article's art. Ouch.
I also found some bad grammar this afternoon but now I've lost it. Feel free to note more errors in the comments, or write me at askrotoman(at)gmail.com. Thanks.
// posted by Rotoman @ 9:05 PM 
