The Hack and the Flack question. In a Hack and the Flack bonus, Michael and Merrill ask the author of Odd Man Out: A Year on the Mound with a Minor League Misfit, about his book and his run-in with the New York Times. You can hear McCarthy and other baseball writers—including Alex Belth, who has written about the McCarthy book controversy—read from and talk about their work at Gelf’s free Varsity Letters event on Thursday, April 2, in New York’s Lower East Side.