We are so Mediocre Pro
Stories about one crazy group of adults who take 6:30 AM pickup hockey way too seriously for their age.
Why do they do it? Isn’t it too late to get any good?
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We are so
The companion site
Behind-the-scenes content that rounds out the characters and the Early Birds as a group. Hopefully you’ll find a few “aha” moments along the way.
New A game on this site
Create A Player
Build your own beer leaguer, spin them in 3D, share them with your friends
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The Team
Meet the Early Birds, and see what they’ve been up to. One day I’ll slip up and reveal a real name by accident.
Is Ricky for real?
Who’s real, how much of it AI wrote, and why anyone would write a book about beer league hockey.
Games & Quizzes
Lightweight interactive bits that add some flavour to the characters.
Store Links
Gifting a custom copy? The various editions live here.
From the desk
This book was the result of misguided positive reinforcement.
I went in blind, thinking I could do this. I mean, who do I think I am?
It started because I wanted to include the friends who couldn’t make it to our weekly pickup sessions and missed all the good moments. One day I said to myself: “This would’ve been such a great premise for an anime.” Sports, but not about a special talent and not about teenagers — older people with jobs, just trying to enjoy themselves.
An anime was far too much effort, so I paid OpenAI for a pro subscription to analyze my content instead. It told me this could be so good. And I believed it.
It lied.
I found out how bad it actually was once I started editing: “This is what you said was good? Are you kidding?” But I’m glad I bought into the positivity — because it really is good now.
Good enough that you might want a few different copies as gifts, which begs the question…
Who plans a book like they’re releasing a Pokemon game? →