Stay To The Last Out

This blog will have infrequent updates on baseball topics. It will focus primarily on the Los Angeles Dodgers, their current season and some history that I might find interesting. I will also post pictures of baseball cards.

I feel that it's necessary to explain why I am writing a baseball blog, because it seems self-important and self-indulgent. Well, it is--why would anyone care about some anonymous guy's baseball opinions? I don't have an answer for that, but I've thought about doing this for awhile and I need a new hobby. I have written plenty for my employers over the years, so it might be a good exercise to finally try to write cogently about a topic I spend a lot of my free time thinking about.

I miss the way the Internet was a decade or two ago. It was the blogs I read on the pre-social media Internet that turned me from a baseball fan to a baseball obsessive. Those blogs gave their writers the chance to share their unique fan perspective. They also helped fans like me learn about new currents in thinking about baseball (or new to me anyway) that involved advanced statistics and challenges to the conventional wisdom that dominated not only teams but sports writing.

There are plenty of good blogs still, but the baseball internet has given way to listicles and websites run by big media companies. And the best baseball writing is often very technically advanced. I appreciate the people who can query databases and do scouting reports off of video, but I won't be trying that. This is a DIY guy in his mom's basement blog that you might have seen on the tail end of geocities' heyday.

So here is one more site cluttering the web.