About This Site

I'm originally from the Greater Boston area, moved to New Jersey when I was 9, and have been here ever since (though I did spend two years in Boston as an adult).

I wasn't really into sports when I was a very young child (and I also wasn't super athletic either), but then, when I was in the seventh grade, something amazing happened:

The Boston Red Sox won the World Series.

In the aftermath of that moment...something clicked. I began reading up on not just the Red Sox, but baseball in general - learning the names of the 30 Major League Baseball teams and their players, collecting their on field hats...and my interest quickly spread to other sports as well.

For a few years now, I've actually been writing about the various sporting events that I go to; I feel like it helps me remember them better, and it's a way of keeping my brain active. For the longest time, they were just "hidden" on various Apple Notes and Google Docs, but now, I figured I'd share those writings with the internet. I started with a bunch of baseball stadium reports I wrote in 2025 (as I visited a bunch of stadiums for the first time), then moved on to the other arenas I'd been to that year.

For these posts, I'm going to try and focus on what makes each team unique. Most of these posts start with some background on the team/stadium and then I'll try to discuss how I felt. I'm also going to dive a bit into each team's merchandise selection, as that's one of the main reasons I've been going to sporting events for a while: I collect various forms of sporting merchandise, and have found that especially for minor league teams, it's difficult to find their merch without going to a game itself (or ordering online, but that takes away some of the "fun" of going to a game IMO). There's also the (annoying) factor that some teams have super interesting items that are, more or less, exclusive to the stadium/arena store itself (i.e. jerseys with stitched on letters and numbers), so I do want to talk about SOME aspects of major league merch situations as well (though for a lot of cases, you're probably fine going to Lids/Dick's Sporting Goods).

As a software engineer (who, BTW, is currently looking for work), I figured the best way for me to do that would be to build my own site as opposed to using WordPress or Medium. The basic layout of this site is copied from the one I made for my personal blog - I don't know how often I'll be updating that site (and it's a mix of personal stuff and technical jargon, so be prepared for that), but you can check it out here.

I hope you'll enjoy my journeys.