
Danny Mercer planned a rebuilding year. But what he got was a full rotation of professional and personal disasters—and a hospital wristband.
The season before, he was leading a franchise inside a bumbling pro women’s sports league: the man smoothing over an owner’s good intentions, a celebrity figurehead’s entitlement, and a board that mistook vanity for expertise. He documented everything, escalated nothing, and believed that being useful was the same as being alive.
And then came Haley: twenty-seven, his first hire, and a tether.
A workplace comedy, a sticky situationship, and a reckoning, Only for You, Babe is about the people who keep everyone else’s chaos contained—and what it costs when their own gets out.
Billy Johnson is a two-time Executive of the Year, brand strategist, and author whose career spans professional sports and entertainment. He has served as President and COO of organizations including the Las Vegas Wranglers, Norfolk Admirals, and San Diego Mojo.
He authored If I Die Tell Steve Martin I Found His Journal, contributed “Ice Ice Billy” to the Las Vegas Sun, and writes IDK: Billy Johnson on (mostly) Uncertain Things whenever a topic needs a little more confusion.
Born in Louisville, Kentucky, he lives in San Diego.

