My Blogging Experience

For the last two years, I have written for several blogs and have really enjoyed the experience. I have been interested in sports statistics for a long time and recently began writing about them. My first blogging experience occurred while I interned for the Boston Red Sox Radio Network during the summer of 2011. I wrote for the radio network’s blog (SoxBooth.com) about a variety of baseball topics, such as the current decline of Major League Baseball hitting performance in addition to the Red Sox vs. Yankees rivalry. After finishing my internship with Red Sox Radio, I then transitioned into basketball season by writing for a Boston Celtics blog, Celtic-Nation.com, and another basketball website, ShotClockChronicles.com. Within the last few months, I also started with CardsBlog.com, a St. Louis Cardinals blog that was created by a classmate at Washington University. I continue to contribute various types of articles to each of these blogs.

Typically, I end up doing a couple of hours of research for each article I write. The exploration for statistical tidbits and interesting facts is by far my favorite part of the writing process because I can find practically anything with just the click of a mouse. Within the last five to ten years, there has been an exponential rise in the amount of sports information that is within a person’s grasp. For instance, since Twitter (twitter.com) was founded about six years ago, the public has gained access to instant updates from the sports writers who cover their respective teams very closely. The new outlet into the sports world has revolutionized how people watch sporting events because millions of people can interact instantaneously. With regard to my research, Twitter gives me hundreds of up-to-the-minute statistical factoids each day. I tend to use some of those helpful tweets to further my research. Moreover, the social networking website has served as a new channel for me to communicate. In fact, I was able to start writing for some of these blogs because of the connections I made through Twitter. I just hope I can continue to provide a fresh perspective for sports blogs for many years to come.