Here's a sneak peak of the Mets new stadium. Sounds like a hitters ballpark with an interesting out of town scoreboard.
Hopefully you'll get a sense that the content I'll be focusing on here are the new innovations and other interesting ideas around the game. So you'll be disappointed if you're looking for commentary on trades and free agent acquisitions. There won't be a whole lot of sabermetrics, analysis or anything of the like. I figure there's a million other blogs doing that.
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Recent Reads
So in an effort to schedule some meetings next week with some baseball guys I emailed this article from bizofbaseball.com to a few of my contacts. Basically I try to give these guys a reason to open my emails so I always provide some other type of content, but I don't do this often. It's got to be cutting edge and pertinent to what they do. This particular article is an interview with Rick Peterson, the former Mets and A's pitching coach, and I think it was well received with all three of them replying back to me. It's quite long, but well worth it. He gets into some interesting ideas about diagnosing poor pitching deliveries and methods to repair them. He also has a cool story about an experience with Jason Isringhausen towards the end.
In my emails I also wanted to know if their specific team employed this method of "prehab". Unfortunately I didn't get any concrete answers, but I'll be sure to take it up with them next week.
In my emails I also wanted to know if their specific team employed this method of "prehab". Unfortunately I didn't get any concrete answers, but I'll be sure to take it up with them next week.
Where To Begin? Again.
So I decided to bring the blog back. That's right...I've had a lot of things to say recently and it's about time you started listening!
Since I've been home for a little more than a month I've been on the job hunt for work. Specifically in baseball, more specifically in player development with a Major League ball club. So far, that process has been largely unsuccessful, but I hope that's mostly a reflection of the timing of the industry. Most organizations do their hiring over the winter around the Winter Meetings.
Recently, I've spent a lot of my time trying to keep up with what's been happening within the sport. I've been doing that by reading articles in the press, websites, watching video, some interesting blogs, primary documents, a few books, and one message board. I'm sure we'll get to some specifics later. I also get a kick out of bouncing ideas off my friends, family, and roommates who humor me by listening to my rants every once in a while. Thanks to all.
In addition to all that nonsense I'm trying to build up the few relationships I've made over the years so that I will get an opportunity to interview along with hundreds of other applicants for a few internship opportunities in the coveted Baseball Operations Departments within the game. No one said this is easy.
Over the next week I'll bring you into my world. This is mostly a baseball related world, but this will tend to get a bit personal as I'll try to describe the trials and tribulations associated with a career in the field. I realize not everyone who reads this will be interested in the baseball stuff or even my own personal thoughts, but it could be interesting to those who think it's fun to chase after something just a little bit out of reach. And I think everyone can relate to that.
We'll kick the renewal of the blog off with some particularly uplifting news regarding the odds that face me as I head out to Las Vegas with hundreds of other folks begging for work in the National Pastime: Jays Cut 24 Front Office Jobs
Since I've been home for a little more than a month I've been on the job hunt for work. Specifically in baseball, more specifically in player development with a Major League ball club. So far, that process has been largely unsuccessful, but I hope that's mostly a reflection of the timing of the industry. Most organizations do their hiring over the winter around the Winter Meetings.
Recently, I've spent a lot of my time trying to keep up with what's been happening within the sport. I've been doing that by reading articles in the press, websites, watching video, some interesting blogs, primary documents, a few books, and one message board. I'm sure we'll get to some specifics later. I also get a kick out of bouncing ideas off my friends, family, and roommates who humor me by listening to my rants every once in a while. Thanks to all.
In addition to all that nonsense I'm trying to build up the few relationships I've made over the years so that I will get an opportunity to interview along with hundreds of other applicants for a few internship opportunities in the coveted Baseball Operations Departments within the game. No one said this is easy.
Over the next week I'll bring you into my world. This is mostly a baseball related world, but this will tend to get a bit personal as I'll try to describe the trials and tribulations associated with a career in the field. I realize not everyone who reads this will be interested in the baseball stuff or even my own personal thoughts, but it could be interesting to those who think it's fun to chase after something just a little bit out of reach. And I think everyone can relate to that.
We'll kick the renewal of the blog off with some particularly uplifting news regarding the odds that face me as I head out to Las Vegas with hundreds of other folks begging for work in the National Pastime: Jays Cut 24 Front Office Jobs
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