Tim Ervin

“OTHER BOOKS BY THIS AUTHOR SO YOU WANT TO WRITE A BOOK? In this masterpiece of the how-to genre, Bob Odenkirk asks his readers questions such as You want to write a book? Really? Why? Wasn’t this one good enough for you? What about the other twenty billion books you can pick up for free at the library? Oh, I get it, none of them contain your life story. Are you sure? Have you checked? Double-check.”
― Bob Odenkirk, A Load of Hooey

“The problem is no one gives a fuck unless they’ve had elbow problems, because they just assume it’ll never happen to them. You can’t sell people preventive medicine. I think the American healthcare system and the rise of antivaccination people is proof enough of that, and baseball people are at least one order of magnitude dumber than the average American citizen.” Boddy’s”
― Jeff Passan, The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports

“On the day before Daniel Hudson blew out for a second time, Todd Coffey decided to “let it eat.” This is a favorite phrase of his, one of those colloquialisms that exist only in baseball’s weird, insular ecosystem. Like, when somebody is mad, he’s not just mad. He’s “got the ass.”
― Jeff Passan, The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports

“It is beautifully chaotic and chaotically beautiful.”
― Jeff Passan, The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports