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Hello! If you’ve landed on this page, you probably already know who I am. What you may not know is what I’m doing, which would make two of us.
It’s easy to say that I’m starting up this newsletter because I see so many other people doing it and I want in on the fun, and there’s probably some truth to that, but there’s a bigger picture here that undoubtedly matters more to me than anyone else:
I miss writing. I shouldn’t even phrase it as “writing” because that sounds too formal. I miss blogging.
For about 8 years, I blogged about the San Diego Chargers. 350+ days per year I would sit down and pour out my thoughts and emotions about a team that didn’t care about me at all for a company that barely paid me at all. That sounds super unhealthy and probably was, but I miss it! The writing part of it, anyway.
And, unfortunately, not much has changed since the time I started blogging about the Chargers. The written medium is not one that is well cared for amongst San Diego’s sports media, with a couple of notable exceptions. And, while I intend to turn this substack into me writing about whatever I want to whenever I want to, sports in San Diego is near and dear to my heart, so I imagine it’ll come up a bunch.
The only reason I ever really stopped blogging in the first place was because of a lack of time. My job, at the time, was demanding somewhere around 70+ hours a week from me and I had just moved in with my girlfriend (now my wife and the mother of my daughter) and something had to give. But, now that I am without a job, I figured this would be a good time to dive back in.
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