{"id":287856,"date":"2011-10-28T17:56:28","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T17:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2011\/10\/28\/three-percent-19-the-moneyball-of-book-publishing\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T14:45:07","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T14:45:07","slug":"three-percent-19-the-moneyball-of-book-publishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2011\/10\/28\/three-percent-19-the-moneyball-of-book-publishing\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Percent #19: The Moneyball of Book Publishing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s podcast centers around two things: Gerald Howard&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/pw\/by-topic\/new-titles\/adult-announcements\/article\/49107-runs-hits-and-p-ls.html\">article in <em>PW<\/em><\/a> about the possible influence of Moneyball ideas on book publishing, and Helen DeWitt&#8217;s comments in an interview I did with her about stats in fiction. <\/p>\n<p>We also talk about the World Series, and my unwavering faith in the St. Louis Cardinals. (Which, given last night&#8217;s game, doesn&#8217;t seems quite as insane as it might have on Wednesday when we recorded this. And speaking of last night&#8217;s game, <span class=\"caps\">HOLY<\/span> <span class=\"caps\">SHIT<\/span>. That is why baseball is amazing.) We complain about Tim McCarver and his atrocious announcing, and briefly discuss Tom&#8217;s recent engagement . . . <\/p>\n<p>In honor of that, this week&#8217;s song in El Ten Eleven&#8217;s &#8220;Marriage is the New Going Steady.&#8221;: El Ten Eleven is a personal post-rock dance band favorite, and if you ever have a chance to see them live, you have to go. It seems impossible that two guys could create such a sonic tapestry. <\/p>\n<p>As always you can subscribe to the podcast in iTunes by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/three-percent-podcast\/id434696686\">here<\/a>. To subscribe with other podcast downloading software, such as Google&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/listen.googlelabs.com\/\">Listen<\/a>, copy the following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/index.php?s=broadcast_3p\">link<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s podcast centers around two things: Gerald Howard&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/pw\/by-topic\/new-titles\/adult-announcements\/article\/49107-runs-hits-and-p-ls.html\">article in <em>PW<\/em><\/a> about the possible influence of Moneyball ideas on book publishing, and Helen DeWitt&#8217;s comments in an interview I did with her about stats in fiction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67446],"tags":[43776,43806,43796,43786,40016,30456],"class_list":["post-287856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-three-percent-podcast","tag-baseball","tag-gerald-howard","tag-hele-dewitt","tag-moneyball","tag-three-percent-podcast","tag-tom-roberge"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330366,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287856\/revisions\/330366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}