Until Next Time...

It’s been a while here at The Outside Corner.

Between college baseball, college life, and preparing to move countries, once again, I simply put this website on the backburner, and never returned.

It has finally dawned on me that this is something that I can’t continue, at least in the foreseeable future. I could write a long, “I’m sorry” story about how little time I have, but, well, who would believe me. I watch a lot of TV and play a lot of video games, and spend a lot of time in the gym, out with friends, and generally, chilling out.

I have plenty of time to sit down and write columns. On almost a nightly basis, I see a story and think to myself “I should write about that”, before getting lost in something else and ultimately forgetting.

As I write this, I am kicking myself that I didn’t plan ahead further, to write one final, real column here for The Outside Corner.

Think about it, between the baseball draft (on my underrated favorite events of the year), Strasburg making his first big league start and being better (yes, I said better) than anyone could have expected, the Lakers and Celtics playing in Boston in a pivotal Game 3 of the NBA Finals, Armando Galarraga making his first start since the Joyce incident (something else that went completely unmentioned here), I could have ended with something special.

Could have, would have, should have.

That’s all in the past now.

I missed Strasburg’s first start, save for the 12 outs MLB.com let me watch for free online. I missed the baseball draft, tuning out after Cleveland finally made a pick I can get on board with the 5^th overall selection. I missed the biggest baseball story of the season, not writing a single word about the blown call at first base that we will all remember every single time a base umpire gets a call wrong for the rest of our lives.

I missed Tiger coming back as a shell of his former self; I missed the LeBron end of season meltdown; I missed a golden opportunity to write about the first Indians game I had seen in person in five years.

In the time it has taken me to write this, the Celtics and Lakers have each dominated the court for minutes at a time multiple times each. I have no idea will win; and I’m not going to make a prediction.

I missed what could have been one of the best stories I have ever written – a full-blown jump onto the Chicago Blackhawks bandwagon made in the Windy City itself.

At the end of the day, if I wrote a real story now, would it even count?

Could I write a story and pretend people will have interest in anything I have to say, given the complete non-activity here the last few months? What could I possibly write about with any degree of credibility?

So I didn’t.

I thought it was finally time to tie up some loose ends here at The Outside Corner.

This isn’t goodbye forever. This definitely isn’t the last column I will write, nor will it be the last column this website ever sees.

My last column, which didn’t even make it to The Outside Corner, was about the brilliance of LeBron James, about two days before he went from the best-ever-in-my-opinion to just really-really-good.

That’s not how this page was supposed to end. Nor will it be.

From time to time, there may be something post-worthy that will pop up on this page. Will anyone even read this? Who knows. This site was never about readers, or web traffic, because if it was, then it would have been the biggest failure of all time.

This site was an outlet; nothing more, nothing less. I wanted to write something, and put it somewhere other than the ‘My Documents’ folder in my laptop. I did that. Even if I achieved nothing more than that, I did it.

So now I can walk away, with loose ends tied up, and with everyone at least somewhat understanding what happened to this page.

As Kobe Bryant continues to make me hate him and like him more and more, simultaneously, I will sign off for the last time – at least for now. If this site ever becomes fully functional again, it will be better, and bigger, more professionally run, and, hopefully, will feature more writers than myself.

As I explore other life and career options, they too may find a place in this website. The name, the URL, and the topics may change, but the idea of this being an outlet, somewhere to display my work, will never change. If everything works out, and someday I am being paid to write insulting and short-sighted analysis, then this will be the first place a come to. This will be the place everything will be based from.

And if in ten years, this page still somehow exists on the World Wide Web, hopefully, more than just me will have some value looking back over these pages.

So that’s it. No “this is why we love sports” or “I can hardly wait.” I will save that for a real column. This one can end simply – thank you to the select few who read this page from time to time. Thank you to those who fueled these columns, and thank you to those who gave me ideas, presented me with arguments, or simply gave me inspiration to write about something.

Until next time.

sad day.
i loved reading what you had to say.
so did my mom. haha-i hope you decide to keep it up...even though you may not admit it anymore we all know its a passion of yours! :P

gonna miss it man...this sucks. i'm gonna have to change my homepage :(

na...not changin it...this will remain my homepage bru.

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