About

This came about because of the reams and reams of emails that went out between myself and my friends every day. It occurred to me that I was spending too much time writing (something I enjoy) and I found myself writing the same things over and over to various people. The subject of most of these emails was sports–specifically baseball, and current events/politics.

These long commentary emails eventually went out to longer and longer lists of friends and business aquaintances around the country. That became problematic when people who had never met each other, were spamming each other on their work emails, commenting on some thread I had started. Often times, these folks had differing levels of interest in the topics and it got mixed up frequently. For example, the Swami, in North Carolina, LOVES baseball but doesn’t give a hoot about politics. And while the Swahm loves baseball, he can’t stomach the soccer/Euro-Football talk.

So the solution was proposed to me by a techy-guy, who’s opinion I respect, to just join a free blog site and use that and let the chips fall where they may. In some cases, relatively innocent blogs have gotten enough traction to actually charge real money for ads, as they began generating enough traffic. While I doubt that this blog will ever get to that point, there’s a little ham in me and I’d like to daydream that it could get to that point. I seldom read something in the papers without thinking “I could have written something as good (or better)”, and THAT’s what makes America great–people who say, “I can do it better”, and then put their money where their mouth is and spend the time and energy to TRY.

–Foggy