Joe Posnanski

It was, the events were weird, some of them and odd, but the point was,

more about the fans we wanted to go to places where that drew like rabid intense fans and to write about and experience what it was like to be them at those events so we you know it wasn't like uh we didn't make our choices based on what's the farthest place we can travel or what's the weirdest thing we've heard of because we got a lot of suggestions from people you know go to the wife carrying championships in Kazakhstan or whatever

But we decided that we were going to choose the events based on the fervor of the fans.

And that was a good call because everywhere we went, we found the same kind of intensity.

What's the hostilities back now?

I mean, we did go to Miami.

I'm just going to say it.

To find sports fans?

To go to Unrivaled.

And it was very fun.

Although we have a real, there's a footnote in the book about the Miami airport.

And at some point, maybe offline, I'd like to have a conversation with you folks about the Miami airport.

I don't know what we're doing.

We had to return a rental car, and it was like we were inside an M.C.

Escher painting for like 35 minutes and couldn't get ourselves out.

Oh, wait a minute, though.

I'm not saying it's better out here.

I'm saying that it's weirder in a different way in Miami than I was used to.

It was like we were being experimented on by scientists.

That's how it felt.