Infinite Inning 109 Is Vlad Guerrero Jr a Cheese and Other Questions

Rachael McDaniel (FanGraphs, The Hardball Times) returns to discuss her new editorial mission and lays out a philosophy of baseball writing. Plus a tale of Billy Martin’s self-sabotage and Steve bids goodbye to a friend. TABLE OF CONTENTSIntentional Damage*A Personal Note of Mourning*Rachael McDaniel: Youthful Editor of The Hardball Times*Racist Knitters*Leaving Baseball Prospectus*What Is The Hardball Times?*“All They Really Want is What They Know”*Vladimir Guerrero Jr is like Cheddar Cheese*Writing That Has an Antagonistic Relationship With its Audience*Special Pleading on Behalf of Smokers and the Overweight*Editor’s Envy*This Temporal World of Baseball/“This Could Have Been a Tweet”*The Tommy Thevenow Analogy*Rachael’s Favorite Baseball Writer*What If You’re a Middle-Aged White Guy? (The Middle Feels Like the Beginning Feels Like the End*The Inevitable Blue Jays Question*Goodbyes.