Everybody just stepped it up another notch. We all came together in that tournament. We got used to playing with each other and got the chemistry going.

Cultural products will spread faster and wider when everybody can see what everybody else is doing. It suggests that the future of many hit-making markets will be fully open, radically transparent, and very, very unequal.

I feel so much better. I can already tell how much better it feels than it did before that procedure. I can straighten it out and not feel anything. There was so much scar tissue around the nerve that it was painful. It's similar to what [Eric] Gagne had. They freed up the nerve and I'm 100 percent better. I'm just about ready to go. I should be ready for games around the time of the Fall League.

To sell something familiar, make it surprising. To sell something surprising, make it familiar.

In all sorts of markets—music, film, art, and politics—the future of popularity will be harder to predict as the broadcast power of radio and television democratizes and the channels of exposure grow.... The gatekeepers had their day. Now there are simply too many gates to keep.

It's going to be fun. It's going to be real intense. Everybody's going to be really hyped up. I'm looking forward to it.