Game Day: Thursday, May 28th

It's a late start this afternoon.  I am experiencing some sort of writer's fatigue or writer's block.  I don't really believe in it and feel like it is mostly a result of some sort of underlying vanity or an underlying desire to please my audience with material that is outside-the-box while also being informative and newsworthy and entertaining.

That is certainly the goal but it needs to be a walk, a stroll in the park, and at most, a long, strenuous hike.  It can't be a record-setting bench press everyday.  My shoulders are thrashed.  My knees aren't in all that good of shape either.

I had thought to myself that writing in this capacity, as a baseball writer or a daily blogger, it is only truly well done if you manage to do it successfully, consistently, effectively, with the same voice, for a period of twenty or thirty years.  I'm not trying to be the Tuffy Rhodes or Eloy Jimenez of baseball writers.  Even if I fancy myself for writing a good article once in a while, there is no such thing in baseball reporting. There is only the completion of another days' work. The challenge of writing baseball articles is being consistent and engaged despite the repetitive nature of the content.  It is difficult.  

That is the mindset I have about this endeavor and it has me questioning my ability to complete the task over the long haul.  My daily routine is far from polished.  You really have to be a machine with your routine to write a daily and I am far from that sort of consistency.

I wrote the blog all season last season and am off to a good start this year but this is isn't even day one in some regard.  This is still more of a tryout, and today I am struggling some and questioning my own ability to make the team.

I believe that I can make it, and you can't even start without that belief but I'll need to improve my process and my disclipline if I have any hope of making it to the finish line.

In showing up for the tryout, I am expressing interest in the opportunity but I haven't decided in my own heart to committ fully.  I'm close to making that committment but I don't want to start if it is something that I can't realistically accomplish.  The twenty year career.  The thirty year career.  I'm trying to assess that in some way.

That's it for Game Day this afternoon.  It's a light slate of games on Thursday with most teams off and traveling.  This weekend offers some exciting series beginning tomorrow night.  

Friday night is my favorite day of the week for MLB baseball.  A three-game series over the weekend is a good time.  Back tomorrow to take another swing at-it. 

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