Those words were spoken by Ernie Harwell at the beginning of every baseball season for decades. And that's the way that I feel about this blog. The winter is past, and it is time to get back to it.
I failed last season. I quit. The Tigers just couldn't get going and neither could I.
I have decided to open up this blog a bit. It will mainly be about the Tigers, but it will be more about me being a Tiger fan living in Lawrence, Kansas, which is Royals country. It will be about me and my newborn son, and how I hope and dream for great things for him, and how in the back of my mind, I hope he is a Tiger fan when he grows up, but I think that I hope even more that he just doesn't become a Yankee fan. It will be about me being a shirttail relative of Charlie Gehringer. It will be about me and my rejuvinated love for sabermetrics, and I hope to post essays of what I find within these pages.
But most of all, it will be about baseball, and the Detroit Tigers. Instead of boring news stories and updates and how I felt about the game of the week or month, I will write how it affects me, my family, and what else baseball I happen to be working on. I don't know how it will go, but I do know one thing. I will not quit this time. I have started and stopped too many things in my life, and it is time for me to keep working on things that I love to do. It is time to find the time. Writing this has taken me exactly eleven minutes. If I can spend fifteen minutes every couple of days on this, it will be a success, to me. If I can spend longer, maybe I can have something of which to be proud...
We'll see...
