An Introduction

This is not the ideal date to launch a blog focused on baseball. Five months removed from the bubbling anticipation of April 1st’s level playing field and identical records, early August is a weird point in the season. The pennant race hasn’t quite reached that fully frenzied point yet, with hungry teams charging towards an October berth. However, the magnitude of the solitary game exponentially increases from now through September, so perhaps I am getting started on the cusp of the final rise towards the season’s ultimate climax.

Regardless of the timing, I want to lay out what exactly it is I’ll be writing about. I can not claim that this will be anything but a vehicle for me to write passionately, analytically and logically about the New York Yankees. I am a lifelong fan, but my goal is to present a kind of writing that transcends pointless and uninteresting fan-blather full of emotional outbursts, insults, etc. I’m trying to ride the season’s rollercoaster and formulate fresh observations, instead of whining when my team loses or flaming a particularly loathsome performer.

Seeing that I consider myself decently informed on what’s happening in the rest of the league, I also aspire to discuss interesting and important developments on other teams in other cities. I’m nowhere near as immersed in the baseball cultures elsewhere as I am in New York, or am I anywhere near as interested in them, so I can’t christen this an all-encompassing “baseball blog”.

The sources I will draw upon for links, talking points, etc. will mostly be major news outlets in New York as well as online. I don’t frequent any team-specific or baseball-specific websites, message boards, blogs, etc., so I don’t really know what the blueprint is or if there even is a blueprint for doing this kind of thing.

With that said, at this point, I have no idea what the content appearing here will look like, or what this page will read like. My hope is to post new writing daily. That writing will most likely contain links to news stories about the Yankees’ game or some other pertinent game or story, perhaps links to a player’s statistics, and things of that nature. If I get truly adventurous there might even be a picture or two once in a while. My technical acumen when it comes to web design and layout is virtually non-existent, so I don’t foresee anything flashy.

In the end, my basic hope is that this becomes my permanent mouthpiece for what crosses my mind as I watch games and then read about them afterwards. I’ve always been a little reticent to put my thoughts about games millions of people watch for themselves out there as if they mean something, but maybe this is the right way to do it. Only time will tell.

A real baseball post will follow this evening, sometime after the conclusion of this unorthodox Monday matinee in Toronto. For a slight laugh, it might be worth checking out the Rockwellian official MLB photo of Jesse Litsch. Also worth noting in Mr. Listch’s player card are the numbers of his only start prior against the Yankees.