What I'm Doing and Why I'm Doing It

I've decided to launch this blog after thinking about it for a good three days.

I usually ponder longer and harder about such mental transactions, but figured that this time I'll go with the impulse buy — especially because it's free.

Anyway, I'm a writer by trade. What's more, I've been mostly a sports writer by trade. I've worked for national sports magazines that will, at least for the moment, remain nameless. (Well ... they do have names. Not having a name for a magazine would be silly. I'm just not going to mention their names here, because I haven't decided how anonymous I want this blog to be. Just as it's easier to apologize than ask permission, it's easier to ask you not to know me than to ask you to forget who I am.)

For the past couple years I've worked as a freelance writer. As such, I tend to write only when someone pays me to. Therefore, I have lots of thoughts on sports that never "get out there." And "getting my ideas out" is why I started taking writing seriously way back when I was 19 years old.

Therefore, this space serves as my personal dart board, if you will. When I'm sitting around thinking sports in my home office, now and then I may turn to the computer and toss a dart — just to get a thought out without trying to find someone who will buy it. I trust it will be good exercise. Hopefully it will also (at least now and then) be a good read.

I'll warn you now: Much of my professional writing involves pro tennis. Much of my sports watching involves the New York Yankees. Much of my sports playing involves softball. So I'm likely to mention those three subjects more than others. But rest assured (because I'm sure you're quite worried) that I'll cover plenty of other topics, too.