Writing Update
I love the Super Bowl. But not for any of the reasons you’re probably thinking of. Sure, it’s a great game, I like football, and the commercials are always funny. Well, most of the time, they’re funny… I don’t know about that one with the nude old men washing a car. The robot suicide commercial was equally funny and disturbing. Two thumbs up, though, for the Bud Light commercial with the chainsaw-and-axe-wielding, Bud Light-toting hitchhikers.
The main reason I love the Super Bowl is that it marks the end of the football season, when all eyes in the sports world turn to the imminent beginning of the baseball season. In winter, there is no phrase more exciting then “pitchers and catchers”. For most teams, we’re one week away from the official beginning of Spring Training. That means we’re one step closer to Opening Day. One step closer the end of our annual long national nightmare: the lack of live baseball.
Sure, you can accuse me of being over-the-top with that sentiment. It’s hyperbole, through and through, but I don’t care. I can’t wait for spring.
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Here’s the rundown for the last couple days of my writing, for those that are just dying to know:
- I wrote an article on batting average on balls in play (BABIP) for Beyond the Boxscore that ran on Monday. Looking back, there were one or two minor errors in though process that I committed, but I think I brought up some interesting points of discussion.
- Updates on the Husker baseball team can be found over at Big Red Analysis. Only in college baseball can a team drop two spots in a poll when their record is 0-0 the first week, and 0-0 the second…
- I’ve posted two pictures I took in Phoenix last spring at Catfish Stew. They look so warm, I can almost feel the sun. Of course, three feet to my left, outside my window, it’s 16 degrees, so that feeling didn’t last long. I’m going to be there in a month, so I can bear another couple dozen days of zero windchill weather in the interim.
- The NCAA baseball season is under way, but Nebraska doesn’t play their first game for another week and a half. Which is good, because I’m not done running down the player previews at Corn Nation. Today, I looked at the the possible keystone of Nebraska’s team, the starting pitching.