Happy 7th Anniversary!

Today is our seventh anniversary of doing this little blog.

It is hard to believe that this has been around for seven years and things have changed a little through the years.

We still cover things,but the day to day coverage of baseball has dropped off since I go to more minor league games now.

I autograph more and watch fewer major league games,due to time constraints,but I am enjoying more things as well.

I'm trying to make more of an investment in time here and I've tried through the years to vary things a bit.

We are mainly sports,but not always and I like talking about my life,my family and issues not sports..

I get such a good reaction from the stuff like Cleaning out the inbox or our interviews and that makes me feel good about what I do.

It never ceases to amaze me when someone comes up to me and mentions something I wrote here or telling a friend something and they say "I know that-I read it in your blog".

I always feel good when that happens.

The blog has evolved and readership is up a little over the last six months,but it's never going to be what I had hoped for.

I never messed with advertising here and I do a pretty bad job of marketing this,although I'll be passing out business cards soon as Rachel bought me 200 of them for my Christmas gift,but all and all,I'm pretty pleased.

I look at this as leaving a record about me,my likes and dislikes and a little about my past.

For whatever the net becomes,this is a record for the people that I care about and some that don't even exist of what I've thought about and what I am all about.

That was not the original intent,but it is a welcome surprise to what I thought this would be.

A few thanks and if I forget someone,I apologize.

Thanks foremost to the lovely Cherie,who gave me the original idea to do this seven years ago and tolerates the crazy life that I lead.

Thanks to Rachel,who has become quite the sports fan and I enjoy watching games with her so much.

Thanks to my graphing buddies,Derreck Chupak,Bill Cover,Kendall Morris,Mike Oravec and Brad Adams.

Your friendship has been important to me and the fun that I have over the summers now has been a blast.

Thanks to Battlin" Bob and our unofficial sister blog.I don't get to see Bob as much as I used to,but still nice to know he is around,Ha Ha.

Thanks to our biggest fan here at the blog,Big Don,who is always around with a kind word and ideas to write about.

Thanks to Luke Erickson at Nationals Prospects,who always gives us some pub when I do something related to the Suns or the Nationals system.

Thanks to my new friend,Ramon Malpica,who has added so much to our boxing coverage.

And finally thanks to the readers-thanks for taking the time to read my thoughts on sports and "other important items".

See you next year for number eight.