Boston's Own "Sports Guy" Book Tour

It would be a complete lie if Bostonist said the Bill Simmon's column on ESPN.com's Page 2 wasn't a catalyst in our becoming more involved with this blogging + sports + (pathetic) attempts at buffoonery being funny endeavor. The weekly dispatches of obscure pop-culture references entwined with what are essentially rants about the sports world are one of the more common shared pleasures among the true, hard-core, sports fans (that spend their 40 hours a day in front of a computer screen).

This week, we see the Sports Guy return to New England on the tail end of a signing tour for his just-released book, Now I Can Die In Peace. The schedule for this weekend's appearances:

• Thursday, September 29: Worcester, MA; College of the Holy Cross -- 7:00 p.m.
• Friday, September 30: Boston, MA (Kenmore Square); Barnes & Noble at Boston University -- 5:00 p.m.
• Saturday, October 1: Boston, MA; The Souvenir Store -- 11:30 a.m.
• Monday, Oct. 3: Boston, MA; Borders Book Shop (DTX) -- 12:30 p.m.

Bostonist has already devoured half the book, and for $25, it's a winner. The running dvd-commentary-like footnotes are already worth at least $10 of that. If you're lucky, maybe you'll run into Sports Guy's mom at local lunch spots like Bostonist has ... not once, but twice this week. True story.