What is 12eight?
Back at the beginning of May (2005), when I started this site, I wrote the following:
“Needing another thing with which I can waste large quantities of time, I’ve decided to start a Red Sox blog. There is no particular reason why you should read this blog; I’m not the smartest, funniest, or most well-informed fan on the web. But that never seems to stop people from reading other shitty blogs, so why should it stop you?”
Most of it - aside from the part about needing ways to waste time - remains true to this day.
When I started 12eight, I lived in Toronto, Ontario. I was doing a Masters program up there for a year, and mostly used this site as an outlet, finding ways to talk about baseball despite being in a city that - even though it is one of only 28 cities in the world that can boast a Major League Franchise - simply didn’t care about baseball. In doing so, I found out I really liked writing about the Sox, and about the game in general. So, this has pretty much become a part of my life, no matter how much time it takes up (occasionally, quite a bit).
So that’s basically the deal. I’m some guy who likes to write about the Red Sox, and for some reason you’re reading it. If you choose to continue to do so, you’ll find here a whole bunch of stuff; from quick one-line posts to game blogs to occasional statistical studies, or whatever else I felt like writing that day. I spend most of my time talking about the big club, but I try to look at the farm system as much as possible. Mostly, though, I’m trying to have fun with it. Also, screaming about Kevin Millar’s umpteenth pop-up (hopefully no longer applicable) in boldface on a blog tends to wake up fewer neighbors than doing it out loud, so the site’s good for that as well.
But what does the title mean, you ask? First - and I suppose foremost - it’s my birthday: 12/8. Second, it happens to also be the section and row where my family has had season tickets for 15 years. Finally - and this is really just tangential, as I didn’t make the connection until the blog was already named - it was the final score of my favorite Sox game of all time, Game 5 of the 1999 ALDS victory over Cleveland.
There. Now go read some other stuff.
