<\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\nYou know how sometimes I write about programming<\/a> in a way that makes it interesting for people who don’t care about programming? My brother Patrick does the same thing for sports. I don’t follow sports or pay attention to sports, but he has a way of making the hobby compelling and accessible to outsiders. When we get together, he’s always got some crazy story about a sports rule that got changed because the fans demanded the old coach be ousted, and as a result the new coach told a player to do a thing, which in turn upset a team, which led to a lawsuit, which enraged the league, which then changed a long-standing policy, which eventually annoyed the fans. Or somesuch. <\/p>\n He’s always talking about the business around the teams and how it shapes the sport, kind of the same way I’m always discussing game companies and how they shape our videogames. When we get together, he does more talking than I do, and I enjoy it even though I don’t know a thing about sports. I’ve been on him for years to stop running his mouth and start blogging some of this stuff, and now he’s actually gone and done it<\/a>. <\/p>\n