Introduction

Hi,

Let me introduce myself.  My name is Jeremy.  I live in St. Louis.  I envision this blog as a one-year deal, something that will cover my thoughts over an entire baseball season.  I work as a contract GIS specialist, but in the fall I will hopefully be attending graduate school. I will hear definitive word on this in early March when the admissions decisions start rolling in. 

Although I live in St. Louis, I am not a die-hard Cardinals fan.  As a friend of mine likes to say "the game is bigger than any one team."  That being said, there has always been a special place in my heart for the St. Louis Cardinals.  But this is not a site about the Cardinals.  The Phillies, Pirates, Reds, White Sox, Angels and Cubs, and of course the Milwaukee Brewers also occupy a piece of my baseball heart.  If I were to write a blog solely about the Cardinals, I couldn't post my thoughts on whatever Ozzie Guillen had recently said (which always is invariably entertaining), or the latest thing to come from the Alex Rodriguez camp.      

I must admit, I was at first apprehensive about using a blog through major league baseball.  What would happen should I proclaim that Pete Rose belongs in the Hall of Fame?  Will Selig send his army of lawyers to shut me down?  This is far-fetched to be sure, but it does say something about my perception of the mlb cartel.  How about my future commentary about the pervading moneyball paradigm?  I am a tough critic of the moneyball theorists; over the course of this blog I will post messages that criticize Moneyball from: 1) A philosophical perspective, 2) A historical perspective, and 3) a methodological/statistical perspective.  There is a lot of animosity out there directed at Joe Morgan for his outright dismissal of the moneyball program.  On this site, Joe Morgan is respected and honored. 

Back to my original problem (that of using an MLBlog): I read the terms of service carefully, and I didn't find anything that I couldn't live with.  Plus, all the other blog sites usually had a lot of tasteless ads or a ton of annoying pop-ups.  The MLB site has "style." 

There will also be my own variant of "investigative journalism," polishing my writing skills before graduate schooI in the fall.