The Always-Awkward to Write ‘First Blog Post’

Sleeping off my Sports High in C-L-E-M-S-O-N

Why is it that first blog posts are always so awkward?  Is it because it kind of makes you feel like a lunatic to even think about starting a blog?

What’s the point of an independent blog, really? Are people going to read non-sense spewed by a random person or even a friend? I guess I will have to find out. 

Although blogs are everywhere nowadays, they still carry this strange stigma.  If you walk into a sports bar and tell people about a sports blog that you are writing, you might find yourself hanging by your underwear in the bathroom. 

Even if you tell your closest friends that you are writing a blog, it returns a “smell the fart” acting face that is just unnatural. 

Lately, my wife Wendy and I have been bitten by the blogging bug (as well as other real bugs that seem to be constantly crawling around our house).

About two months ago, I started writing a blog on Pac-12 Football called The Pacific Dozen.  

For the past three years, I wrote for Bleacher Report, covering the San Jose Sharks, San Francisco Giants, Stanford Cardinal, and eventually all of College Football. Earlier this year they offered me a paid opportunity, which would have been awesome if I hadn’t recently started law school.   

I knew I would not be able to juggle the type of research required for the B/R assignments plus my homework.  Also, the paid opportunity only garnished $100 a week and I was doing close to 30-40 hours a work on their assignments.  It wasn’t worth it to me.

I didn’t want to stop writing all together, but I didn’t really want to write for B/R either.  So, I started The Pacific Dozen to strictly follow the Pac-12 and to mainly keep my head in the game. 

Recently, Wendy also decided to start blogging.  Her blog, WendyB Photography, looks wonderful and everyone should check it out!  (Like right now…go…and then come back to read my gibberish).  She is really diving head first into this renewed passion and I love it.

But, back to me…

Because of The Pacific Dozen, I started using Facebook and Twitter a lot.  Like, way too much.  I kind feel like a teenage girl with the amount of time that I am tapping away on my iPhone. 

I wanted to start using Twitter for more than just posting articles.   So, the gambler in me quickly shouted out “Why don’t you do a daily gambling tweet!” … and I was immediately sold.

I started this 365 day project on Monday and currently I am posting a horrendous 1-4 record.    Last night, I began to think that I wanted to do more with this project.  Maybe start a …. you guessed it, a blog.

But, I didn’t want a blog that just the diehard sports fan would read.  I wanted something that my wife might occasionally take a glance at.  Wendy isn’t exactly the biggest sports fan and I don’t blame her for not readingThe Pacific Dozen.  If you dont follow Pac-12 Football, then the entire blog will go over your head.

However, sports will always be running rampantly through my head, so it is hard for me to make a blog site that doesn’t touch (and completely molest) the subject.

“The Journal of a Sports Junkie” (as you probably can see from that last line) will not be for the faint of heart.  I love the F-word and I’m surprised that 1) it took me so fucking long to say it and 2) that I censored myself on the first one.

On this blog, I will provide unedited commentary on why I picked the games for my #365freesportspick non-sense on twitter, what I think about after the games' results, why the Giants or any other Bay Area sports team is pissing me off, and really whatever else that I want to talk about in the world around us, which means Ill bring up some areas of Law that I'm learning at that specific point in time.  

Thanks for getting through this always-awkward first post with me.  Now, on with the ridiculousness!