'Your Turn' Review by Steve Mooney

Recently, I drove up to Portland Maine for Tom Watson’s book launch. Tom and I played ultimate together a very long time ago, before he moved to Maine to join his father in the real estate business. When Tom lived and played in Boston, this is what Tom said to me.

“Mooney, we need to try something different,” he told me when our offense repeatedly failed to score. He’d say this more than once. Each time he did, I’d nod but not really listen.

“I can teach you the Stanford Offense,” he offered. To this day, I don’t exactly know what he was talking about. And true to my personality at the time, and maybe even now, I didn’t listen. I should have. Instead of listening to Tom — who would become someone who made of life trying new things, taking risks, and later even bouncing back from a near death experience — I thought I knew better. Out team didn’t learn the Stanford Offense, and we didn’t win.

Today, I’m halfway through reading Tom’s first book Your Turn, and loving it. This can’t really be a book review since I’ve never written one, and since you can’t write a review before finishing the book. Who does that? Still, I feel compelled to bang something out.

Read the full review here.