Welcome to Our Blog: Purpose and History

Thanks for visiting our baseball blog.  Our purpose is to shed some light on major league baseball as fans for fans.  Our meeting  is somewhat fateful - it is pretty fair to say that we have both never met another more knowledgeable and interested in baseball.  This is in many parts an experiment to recreate the baseball conversation between bartender (Jim) and patron (Dean).   This blog recreates some of these conversations and we figure that we can perform this is a timely manner because we have no problems writing, with Jim an English major graduate and Dean an ex-professor.  In summarizing these conversations, they are usually informative and laden with dry humor and research.  We hope others can chime in our conversation.

Pragmatically, when watching a game together Dean usually provides play-by-play and Jim chips in on color commentary.  This is both dispositional and situational because Dean has lecturer tendencies and is facing the bank of TVs with no interruptions. Jim is more reserved and prone to the occasional one-liner using baseball vernacular.  Multiple games are also on simultaneously and the analysis usually focuses on close games or when the Dodgers or Orioles are playing at the time.  Our in-game analyses (pitch-by-pitch & strategy speculation) will be discussed as well as trivia, predictions, stories, and anecdotes.  This is how we interact as hardcore fans.  We hope that our type of baseball discussion rings true with other fans.  

Given recent technological advances, we would be remiss to not consider multimedia channels for our grassroots baseball fan blog.  We can share occasional audio and video clips, but would like to focus on writing about interesting baseball questions and predicaments and getting others to lend their own two cents.  One new way to effectively market our message is through Twitter.  Twitter allows 140-character quips to go viral and can be used to promote thought evoking conversations between people who are knowledgeable or fascinated on a topic.  Our blog is linked to Twitter to get our message out faster and recruit followers and contributors to our discussion.  We hope to write thought-evoking headlines to stimulate interest in a meaningful discussion regarding our baseball obsession.  I have no idea where this is going, but Play Ball!