That makes this blog something like 120 in human years.
Hi everybody! It's I, your friendly neighborhood blog founder, popping in for an annual birthday wish to best little blog that could. I largely avoid making appearances here because Alex and company are way smarter than I am and much like Billy Beane, I simply let the smart people do their thing.
Yes, it was 12 years ago today that I started a typepad blog (remember typepad? it was like myspace whereas wordpress became Facebook) called Athletics Nation: Baseball Country. It was a terrible name but the typepad system seemed to require a subhead for some reason.