Showing posts with label administrative. Show all posts
Showing posts with label administrative. Show all posts
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Back from my little hiatus. LOTSA stuff happened.
Sorry. Kinda took a break while everyone was saying in the house here. As it was I made the decision to split the blogs and that seemed like a whole lotta work to undertake while entertaining my in-laws and wife's friend all in from Tokyo. I think I played a decent host, plus we did some vacationing. I guess you don't care much about that, and the unfortunate part of it is... All kindsa sports stuff went down. I'll try to catch up, even if it's not exactly timely to do so.
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Please Mind my Dust
Welcome to my "new" sports blog, which carries the old title of my but not URL of my original all topics blog. I've decided to separate sports topics from other topics since I believe they draw two different audiences. Appearance has changed a little, I guess, but anyway, I brought forward all of the sports related posts and got rid of all the other stuff... So welcome, and enjoy. If you are so inclined, please check out my other blog (as yet lacking in pithy title) at johnbdwyer.blogspot.com
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Following Baseball
If it was those halcyon days of 1999 and you looked me in the eye and sternly said, "John Dwyer, you're going to one day start a blog and nearly half of your posts are going to be about basketball." I would have laughed and told you just what you had coming. As it happens, I grew up a baseball player, and that means I grew up a baseball fan. My least favorite sport in my early years was basketball.
Sure, I'm from the Peoria area, and that means I was aware of Bradley basketball and nominally a fan. Sure, I grew up with the Bulls owning NBA championship after championship behind His Airness and was a nominal fan... But my limited talents and all of my love were focused on baseball, with a healthy sprinkling of Chicago Bears and a minor obsession with CART racing thrown in for flavor. But my first love was the New York Mets. Mets? Yeah, I dunno either. I should have been a Cubs or Cardinals fan like everyone else. My best theory is that it was a form of childish rebellion against the 'rents who were Yankees fans. Or maybe it was because they were kickass during my formative years. I honestly don't remember, but am positive that I've been a Mets fan my whole life.
Well, lucky you. That means you get to enjoy baseball with me. I've been trying to figure out how best to "cover" baseball. Basketball has been easier than maybe I thought it'd be. The games are dramatic, and at least in college, each one is incredibly important. Baseball can certainly be dramatic, but with a 162-game season, the games are essentially unimportant and anything you see in any given game could be extremely misleading. So, what I've decided to do is "report" on the season in two week chunks. Try to study each two week period and see what it is I find. I've never paid attention to baseball in this way and maybe I'll learn something. That's not to say I won't post here and there about significant happenings in baseball or whatever, but there will be some structure.
So... Period 1 has begun. Apr 4-17. Mets are already 1-1, by the way. They're old and they're expensive. I think it's going to be a tough year, but it's the beginning of a new season so I'm hopeful anyway.
Sure, I'm from the Peoria area, and that means I was aware of Bradley basketball and nominally a fan. Sure, I grew up with the Bulls owning NBA championship after championship behind His Airness and was a nominal fan... But my limited talents and all of my love were focused on baseball, with a healthy sprinkling of Chicago Bears and a minor obsession with CART racing thrown in for flavor. But my first love was the New York Mets. Mets? Yeah, I dunno either. I should have been a Cubs or Cardinals fan like everyone else. My best theory is that it was a form of childish rebellion against the 'rents who were Yankees fans. Or maybe it was because they were kickass during my formative years. I honestly don't remember, but am positive that I've been a Mets fan my whole life.
Well, lucky you. That means you get to enjoy baseball with me. I've been trying to figure out how best to "cover" baseball. Basketball has been easier than maybe I thought it'd be. The games are dramatic, and at least in college, each one is incredibly important. Baseball can certainly be dramatic, but with a 162-game season, the games are essentially unimportant and anything you see in any given game could be extremely misleading. So, what I've decided to do is "report" on the season in two week chunks. Try to study each two week period and see what it is I find. I've never paid attention to baseball in this way and maybe I'll learn something. That's not to say I won't post here and there about significant happenings in baseball or whatever, but there will be some structure.
So... Period 1 has begun. Apr 4-17. Mets are already 1-1, by the way. They're old and they're expensive. I think it's going to be a tough year, but it's the beginning of a new season so I'm hopeful anyway.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Why I Started a Blog
Because Dusty did!
That's pretty much the basic, check-in-the-box, reason. He mentioned he started one (link here), and when I tried to follow his, it gave me an option of starting my own. Done and done. I can't honestly say I'll keep this thing up or going, but the first step in testing my resolve is creating the blog in the first place. I'm going to avoid making it public journal for the most part and focus in on posting things that at least I'm thinking about that I'd like others to read and maybe comment on. I'll warn that the topics have the potential to be a bit all-over-the-placey since I'm interested in things like books, movies, games, sports, and in depth discussion of politics and international relations.
So that's pretty much it. Hope it's good and/or fun. Or as someone once deemed something I did at work, "great/adequate."
Side note: Please excuse our dust. I'll be horsing around with the layout until I'm happy.
That's pretty much the basic, check-in-the-box, reason. He mentioned he started one (link here), and when I tried to follow his, it gave me an option of starting my own. Done and done. I can't honestly say I'll keep this thing up or going, but the first step in testing my resolve is creating the blog in the first place. I'm going to avoid making it public journal for the most part and focus in on posting things that at least I'm thinking about that I'd like others to read and maybe comment on. I'll warn that the topics have the potential to be a bit all-over-the-placey since I'm interested in things like books, movies, games, sports, and in depth discussion of politics and international relations.
So that's pretty much it. Hope it's good and/or fun. Or as someone once deemed something I did at work, "great/adequate."
Side note: Please excuse our dust. I'll be horsing around with the layout until I'm happy.
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