Welcome one, welcome none (probably) to A Sports Blog For No One. Yeah yeah I know, the title is too long. It’s my blog, I get to name it what I want. 

If you are reading this, you are one of the few people I had the balls to send this to. Congrats!

Talking ball has always been my way of connecting with people. When I was a kid it was genuinely the only thing I cared about. My happiness or sadness hinged on a Badgers or Brewers win. I’d drive my mom crazy when I would forget some math equation or science fact, but I managed to remember exactly what happened in a Badger game 5 years ago. I’d drive my dad equally crazy asking “why” about everything that happened during a game. I wanted to know everything I could about sports. (Don’t feel bad for him, he was the one who got me into sports so it’s his fault I was crazy about sports anyways.) Like any kid who loved sports my dream was always to play professionally, but that stopped and ended at me being the smallest kid in my grade every year. So I spent most of my time watching from a bench or a couch. Didn’t matter to me as long as I had a teammate or friend there to do it with me. 

As an adult, I’d like to think I’m not as crazy about sports anymore. I try to care less about the result of a game for my favorite teams. (I’m told apparently that’s something healthy, well adjusted adults do). The truth is though, I am still just as crazy about sports as I was then. I watch pretty much all the games of my favorite teams, my friends and I still talk nonstop about sports, and I even added someone else to drive crazy about my sports fandoms now too. My wife. She is not much of a sports fan. When I told her I played baseball in high school (*note, I told her I lettered in baseball in high school because I thought that would be a sick brag) she straight up just said “I hate baseball”. Still she comes with me to games here and there to humor me, but she could care less about my sports takes. 

Enter A Sports Blog For No One.

I recently moved from Madison, Wisconsin to Boise, Idaho. Madison is my home. It’s where all my friends and family grew up. When my wife and I made the decision to move, I knew I was going to miss ball talk with my friends in person. So, on a 21 hour drive out west I concocted the idea for A Sports Blog For No One. It’s pretty much exactly how it sounds. It’s a place for people to write about sports who don’t care how many reads it gets. Maybe this becomes something one day, maybe it doesn’t. I don’t really have some crazy vision for this. Hell, I don’t even know if I am a good writer or not! What I do know is I need an outlet to talk about sports and I think this is it. My hope is that people I know want to also write on the blog with me because that is the fun of sports. It’s a shared experience of joy or torture. 

If you got this far, thank you for taking the time to read this. I hope you come back and read more from me (or hopefully someone else too!). 

Welcome to A Sports Blog For No One.