It's all about books these days, isn't it? Lots of good ones coming out and seemingly everyone hard at work on one. The BP 2004 is coming along nicely and should be out the first week of February. Mine is coming along, if slower than I'd like for piece of mind and pain of wrist. The Neyer/James project should be interesting. There's a guy with a bad haircut coming soon.

But out now is one that you might enjoy. Jamey Newberg collects his writing from each year and adds in a ton of value in his "Bound Edition." This isn't something thrown together. It has every bit of production quality you'd expect from a BP book - the covers look and feel similar.

I was honored this year to have Jamey ask me to write one of two forewords, stepping in when Dan O'Brien understandably declined. I'll give the 2004 Bound Edition my Fred McGriff bad hat thumbs up and wink full endorsement.