If you want to know the context for this entry, here’s last year’s version. I go over stats from the past season of ballhawking. It’s fun for my stat-geek mind. If you’re into stats, it might be fun for you too, but it’s really to have a record of everything. Feel free to leave a comment below suggesting any other stats you’d like to see in the entry.
In this version because I only attended one game there this season and I didn’t want to do all of the stats stuff for just one game.
1. Go to 50 games- Yes, I went to 53.
2. Average 4.5 Balls Per Game- No, I averaged 4.21.
3. Go to 8 Stadiums- No, I went to 6, but I could have gone to 8 easily without school getting in the way (both high school and college).
4. Double my career total- Yes, I did it on the last game of the season.
5. Catch one Game Home Run. Period- Yes, Trevor Plouffe’s game-tying home run to be specific.
6. Catch 5 Game Balls total- No, I only got started catching game balls at the end of July and only managed to snag 3. I’ll take game balls in back-to-back games over this goal, though.
7. Be in the mygameballs.com Top 10- No, I was in 12th. You were right, Alex.
8. Go to 10 games at Nationals Park before June’s end- I don’t know what I was thinking when I wrote this goal, but no, I didn’t.
9. Average 5.0 Balls Per Game at Nationals Park- No, I averaged almost half-a-ball under this mark.
10. Average 3.5 Balls Per Game at Citi Field- No, I didn’t anticipate Citi Field becoming a worse ballpark due to their additions.
11. Average 2.5 BPG at Yankee Stadium- Yes, I actually blew this out of the water with a 4.06 average.
12. Improve on my HB/TB ratio- Yes, from 0.51:1 in 2011 to 0.79:1 in 2012.
13. Go to Camden Yards 3 times- Yes, I went 4 times in 2012.
14. Enjoy the summer of Baseball- I would say I did. Some times I wasn’t having fun, but overall, the whole summer was a pure blast.
15. Post Entries Regularly- Compared to 2011, I definitely posted my entries a lot more quickly when discounting these past few entries at the end of the season that have taken me forever to get up.
If you made it this far: thank you. You are too kind. (And you probably have a longer attention span than I do. Even if I did write this whole entry pretty much in one night.) I will be trying very hard to get a video up Friday explaining my winter blogging plans. I’m very excited the potentiality for awesomeness the stuff I have planned for the winter, so make sure you check the blog sometime during this next weekend November 9-11. If it isn’t up then, that means I decided to post the video November 12th. Anyway, the winter blogging plans are dependent on reader input, so make sure to read and vote on what you want to read. But anyway, I feel like I’m just confusing you. More explanation will come Friday…or Monday. It depends on when the video comes out. I haven’t even fully scripted the video. If you were wondering, I am planning to get on a regular entry-posting schedule; or at least attempt one. That’ll be in the video too, so like I said, watch out for a video coming soon.
Looking forward to seeing the video and to seeing the upcoming off season blogs.
Andrea- I have some background information that it should be up by the time the weekend comes.
Some serious work went into this post! Even as a non-ballhawk, I found it interesting. Thanks for sharing and looking forward to seeing your winter blogging plans.
Malcolm- Thanks. It definitely kept me up way longer than I would have liked to have been up working on it. I didn’t think it would take this long, but I wanted to make sure it was high-quality. As for the winter plans, I am scripting the video as I write this.