Books we won't be reading

We thought it'd be fun to keep a list of books we won't be reading this summer, or ever. One that will be pretty high on that list is a new one from Mike Lowell -- Deep Drive: A Long Journey to Finding the Champion Within. If the title alone doesn't grab you, consider that Josh Beckett has wrote the introduction.

We wonder how soon it will be before we reach a saturation point of books about the Red Sox. The Yankees are not immune to self-congratulatory publishing, but the team has yet to violate the unwritten rule which dicates that players who are not one of the, say, seven best on their team don't deserve their own book. (Baseball Prospectus ranks Lowell as the 15th most valuable Red Sox going into 2008). And while Lowell may have won a deserved WS MVP, I somehow doubt that we'll see in print any time soon a memoir from John Wetteland or Scott Brosius.

Alas, until these books cease to make money, we can only guess which excellent new titles will emerge next. A few possibilities:

"Batting Eight: My marginal contributions to the Red Sox Winning Season" by Julio Lugo

"Cleaning My Plate: Backstops Doug Mirabelli and Jason Varitek's share their cooking secrets"

"Putting the 'I' in Team: My failure to meet any semblance of the expectations placed before me" by Wily Mo Pena

"I'm not Greek, nor am I a God: My personal struggle against mistaken identity" by Kevin Youkilis.

We imagine that any of the above titles would be more readable that Lowell's self-indulgent tripe...unless, of course, he managed to track down Ed Yarnall for an interview. (No, we're not bitter about that.)