Welcome, nobody!

So, I'm starting a blog, for whatever bizarre reason it is that people start blogs. Basically, in my case, I like to indulge in a little medicinal activity (it's totes legal where I am) and watch sports. While doing so, I often find myself possessed of fascinating insights, which are lost on my wife, who has developed a moderate interest in tennis, but who otherwise has no interest in sports whatsoever. Thus, this blog. I still won't be telling anybody my fascinating sports insights, but I can pretend that I am. Apparently that will make me feel better.

So, I started this by just keeping a notepad file of my thoughts for the last couple of weeks, to see if my thoughts were really as interesting as they seem in the moment. The answer, of course, was no, but I was reasonably pleased that there did seem to be scraps of value in there. In so far as I have a dominant theme (I don't), it's what I think of as "The Quantum Theory of Sports." The scientifically literate among you will know that it's a basic principle of quantum theory that you can't observe an event without changing it. The same principle applies to sports. The concept of home field advantage rests on that principle, and on a very fundamental level, sports only exists insofar as its observed, both in the crass financial sense and in a deeper, almost religious way, ESPN is far more insidiously influential than is generally acknowledged, etc. But as I am currently neither intoxicated, nor watching sports, I won't get into it any farther, I'll let you discover my genius for yourself! If you exist. Which you don't.

Just to give a quick sports background: I am a lifelong fan of the Cincinnati Bengals and Reds, the University of Dayton men's college basketball team. I've been a fan of the US Men's Soccer Team since the 1994 World Cup, and I am a big tennis fan, my current favorite players being Federer (though I really want to see Roddick win another major) and Justine Henin, who won my heart first by being part of a riveting semi-final in the Australian Open against Jennifer Capriati (which marks the beginning of my serious tennis fandom), and then a few months later blatantly cheating against Serena Williams at the French.

I'll start off by posting the thoughts I collected in the last couple of weeks, in the order I had them. They're not that good, but I like to imagine that I'll get better. In the best blogging tradition, I expect to then continue posting somewhat regularly for the next few weeks, not post for a couple months, post an apology for not posting, post three more times, then abandon the blog forever. Let's take this journey together!