RCS: In doing these interviews we try to put a lot of research into the questions. Two things we learned about you is that you hate doing radio and television, and you are really hard to research because your big thoughts rarely come in a phrase or a sentence, but rather in a paragraph or a passage.

Do you think the latter explains the former -- that radio and television are not the best mediums for a long thought?

Posnanski: Yeah. I think that would probably be a pretty good explanation.

I had a radio show very very briefly a long time ago, twelve, thirteen years ago. At that point I didn't really have any sense of what kind of radio person I would be or if I would like it or not. I did it for a very short period of time, six weeks maybe. I hated it. It was always hard for me to sort of explain to people why. I think part of it is I feel I'm really bad in that medium. I just don't feel like I do very well in that at all. And nobody likes doing something they're not good at.

But I think the second thing is exactly what you're presenting. I feel like that's a medium for people who are glib, and people who can make a point very quickly, and people with real conviction in a point of view. I just don't know that those are my strengths. I mean I do have opinions obviously, I've been a columnist for a while. I do have points of view but they tend to be nuanced and I tend to really like the written word to get those points across.

I find that even if I could do it on television or radio, even if I had the time to do it, I just don't know that my mind works that way. I need to hammer something over in my mind over and over again to kind of get it really get it to crystallize exactly into what I'm trying to say. So yeah, I think that's probably as good a description as I've heard -- probably better than anything I've ever come up with -- as to why I don't really do really well or feel very comfortable doing television or radio. It's because I feel like to get a point across, I need not only the space to write it, but also the time to really present the way I'd like to present it.

10 Questions with Joe Posnanski