I know there are a lot of
baseball blogs out there, and I will try my best to make this one interesting
and different. However, I am not a
writer, and this is a labor of love. I
simply want to discuss baseball far more frequently than anyone I know in my
actual life, and this will give me an outlet to both research baseball topics
and give my opinion, however irrelevant.
I do not claim to be an expert in any baseball related field, only to
love baseball enough to blog about it.
Perhaps you will agree with me, perhaps you will disagree. I invite your opinions and if I am wrong
about something, invite you to set me straight.
Any respectful comments and/or criticisms are welcome!
Biking to Spring Training
My first blogging endeavor will
be to ‘ride’ my sweet vintage Schwinn exercise bike to Spring Training in Phoenix , Arizona . As I will be unable to attend in person this
year, the idea struck me as I was exercising the other day. I will set out from Madison ,
Wisconsin on December 5, 2011 (the first day
of the Winter Meetings in Milwaukee , WI ) and arrive sometime during the week before Spring
Training at the Cactus League home of the Milwaukee Brewers, Maryvale Baseball
Park . As this will give me plenty of time to cover
the distance, I will be taking scenic detours to ‘visit’ sites and sights that
interest me along the way. I estimate
that I will need only ride around 20 miles a day, which will give me days off
as well as ensuring I will arrive early.
I will post an entry each day of
my virtual journey, however long or short, of the route I took (complete with
map) as well as things encountered along the route. You can follow my progress on Twitter, where
I will be posting updates (and notifying OF updates to the blog) which you can
follow under the name: @on_base_mrbeast.
Feel free to suggest stops along the way at my blog’s email address,
on-base-w-mr-beast@gmail.com. If you
like what I’m doing, please RT or recommend me on Twitter. Though I do not expect this to be the
blog-of-the-century, I would like a few readers so I am not just talking to
myself. I will debut the standard format
of this blog the during Spring Training.
Thanks for visiting and stop by again soon!
– Shelly & Mr.Beast