Good question. Don't I have enough of an electronic outlet through my family blog? Apparently, I don't. Recently, several posts on our family blog have focused on baseball. That isn't the purpose of our family blog, and, frankly, our baby was getting increasingly annoyed that stuff about "America's Pastime" was taking focus away from her exploits. So, daddy started this blog as a space where he can devote time and writing to one of his favorite hobbies...baseball.
From the time I was a pre-schooler, baseball has been one of my favorite things in life. I wasn't always as interested in "America's Pastime" as I am now. Friends who devote their blogs to sports have given me further encouragement to launch a site that will allow me to bloviate on and on about the game, the players, and everything else related to it.
Here are 9 things (one for each inning) that I hope Rollie Fingers' Mustache will provide:
1. Profiles on my favorite current players.
2. Profiles on my favorite players of all time.
3. Debates (who doesn't belong in the Hall of Fame? Which current players will one day be enshrined in Cooperstown? Should we consider hits Japanese ballplayers like Ichiro had in Japan when it comes time to consider their spot in Cooperstown?)
4. Links to important/fun/interesting articles from ESPN, CNNSI, MLB.com, and elsewhere (no, I will not link to the Boston Globe's Dan Shaughnessy, not even if you offered me seats on the Green Monster at Fenway for each home game).
5. Reviews of baseball books.
6. Pre- and post-season predictions for teams and ballplayers.
7. Commentary on games attended and ballparks visited.
8. "This Day in Baseball History," a literary step back in time to important and amusing events that occurred in the game on particular days.
9. The Wild Card--posts about anything that I think to write about that might not fit into one of the other 8 categories above.
***Well, those are my objectives, and I hope they're entertaining enough for people to hop on over from our family blog. I can't promise that I'll be as devoted to Rollie Fingers' Mustache as I am to our family site, but there is enough ballgame banter for me to do some quick hits and keep you all in the game!
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2 comments:
Tim,
Thanks for the baseball blog. While I'm not a fanatic fan of any particular sport, I am a sports fan and I find the history of baseball fascinating.
I will come to see what your are pontificating about once in a while. Not really a baseball fan, it's to long and slow, meant for an era when men worked at intensly physical jobs and needed a sport that allowed them to rest more than play. Now we are a nation where men work more with the minds and fingers and need a game that provides action, physical exercise, thus football is in the process of becoming the nation pasttime, might I speculate, national religion. As for me I like soccer because it is constant action, players game (not time outs for the coach to mess it up), timed so you can enjoy the rest of the evening, but I spout and this is your blog. I am here because I like your insights and commentary. Return I will.
PaPa Meese
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