Columnist Turned Accidental Baseball Blogger

Carl Bialik from the WSJ writes "Wall Street Journal Online tech columnist Jason Fry started playing around with a New York Mets blog almost a year ago. In today's Real Time column, he outs himself as one of the writers behind Faith & Fear in Flushing, and writes about the stress of blogging: "The downside of being a blog writer? Being a blog administrator. I also wasn't prepared for how much work blogging was. Baseball already took up three hours a night; now it took up four -- at least. Blogging about a thrilling extra-inning win was easy; blogging about a dull-as-dishwater loss wasn't. And with more and more people reading us and commenting about our posts, blogging sometimes became a duty; we wrote at least one new entry for 190 straight days, including ones when one or both of us was tired, on vacation or not particularly inspired."" Heh. Boy, does this refrain ever sound familiar.

Comments

Sucks, doesn't it?

[garcia]

No one realizes just how much work goes into any "hobby project website" until they start doing it themselves. Recently, I was elected into one position in a hobby association, dumped into the "webmaster" position, and also administer the forum software. Man, was it easy to be on the other side of the table when all I had to do was read what others posted. I had no idea how much work content, coding, and administrating is/was.

Then you have to deal w/the users of your website. Drama, questions, problems, bugs, whatever. Ugh.

I'm already burned out from that one particular project and I have my own website, other websites, and real life I have to deal with. I have gotten to the point where at least three days a week are "offline time". I sit down with a book and headphones or do something w/the wife or whatever.

I have talked about making your hobby your job and the problems that causes. Looks like other people are learning about it too.

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[EmperorKagato]

"why do you call it football when there is no goddamn kicking in the game?"

You kick the ball when making a punt , attempting a field goal, starting the game or half by kicking off to the receiving team and after a touch down you kick the ball to score an extra point.

For more information about the game please visit http://www.wikipedia.org/ or visit this link.