Friday, July 31, 2009
BLOG FADING AWAY?
Man, I don't even think about this blog much anymore, much less write on it.
I experienced my first no-hitter as a Giants fan on July 10 when Jonathan Sanchez, the least likely of any Giants starter to toss one, came within one batter of a perfect game. That was one of the greatest days of my life as a sports fan. I'd been waiting over 30 years to witness a Giant throwing a no-hitter. Thankfully, the MLB Network was right there and I captured it all.
And it didn't occur to me to write up anything about it on this blog. One of the most exciting nights ever, and I couldn't write anything. It hadn't occurred to me that E.K. Nation's Next Pitcher To Throw A No-Hitter, the Giants' own Tim Lincecum, was six innings into a no-hitter himself just the night before. Nor had it occurred to me that my usual M.O. is to change such designations once the NPTTANH fails in his quest. And when the White Sox's Mark Buerhle dropped a perfect game against Tampa Bay last week, I didn't hop on to E.K. Nation to designate someone else then either.
Am I just losing interest in this blog? I used to post stuff three, maybe four times a week. I took great pains to make it look like a professional blog. I just don't do it anymore. Maybe it's time to wrap it up. The vast majority of stuff I've posted here in 2009 has been American Idol stuff, something I never would have imagined when I started this thing in 2003.
This blog just celebrated its 6th birthday last week -- six years I've been doing this...wow -- and I think it's kind of reaching old age. I can get to the computer but I just don't have the energy, or the ideas, to write anything. My creativity has been funneled elsewhere lately. Last month I posted one thing. I didn't post once in May. And here it is the last day of July, and it's my first post of the month. Two posts in three months. This tells me something.
I haven't given up. But I'm close.
I experienced my first no-hitter as a Giants fan on July 10 when Jonathan Sanchez, the least likely of any Giants starter to toss one, came within one batter of a perfect game. That was one of the greatest days of my life as a sports fan. I'd been waiting over 30 years to witness a Giant throwing a no-hitter. Thankfully, the MLB Network was right there and I captured it all.
And it didn't occur to me to write up anything about it on this blog. One of the most exciting nights ever, and I couldn't write anything. It hadn't occurred to me that E.K. Nation's Next Pitcher To Throw A No-Hitter, the Giants' own Tim Lincecum, was six innings into a no-hitter himself just the night before. Nor had it occurred to me that my usual M.O. is to change such designations once the NPTTANH fails in his quest. And when the White Sox's Mark Buerhle dropped a perfect game against Tampa Bay last week, I didn't hop on to E.K. Nation to designate someone else then either.
Am I just losing interest in this blog? I used to post stuff three, maybe four times a week. I took great pains to make it look like a professional blog. I just don't do it anymore. Maybe it's time to wrap it up. The vast majority of stuff I've posted here in 2009 has been American Idol stuff, something I never would have imagined when I started this thing in 2003.
This blog just celebrated its 6th birthday last week -- six years I've been doing this...wow -- and I think it's kind of reaching old age. I can get to the computer but I just don't have the energy, or the ideas, to write anything. My creativity has been funneled elsewhere lately. Last month I posted one thing. I didn't post once in May. And here it is the last day of July, and it's my first post of the month. Two posts in three months. This tells me something.
I haven't given up. But I'm close.
