Dom's Dish - Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Well, baseball is officially back! I know most of you will argue that it was back over a week ago when they opened the season in Japan, but I'm not buying it. It might as well have been figure skating or a "Rock, Paper, Scissors" competition (yeah, it's been on TV before!) to have counted. I mean, come on, 6am Eastern on a Tuesday?!? Baseball is back on American soil and it started with a bang - the Washington Nationals and their new ballpark opened the season on Sunday night in South D.C. and Ryan Zimmerman won the game with his walkoff homerun. Then the Yankees got rained out, the Phillies collapsed, to rebound and tie it in the 7th, before collapsing again on a horrible "closer" in Tom "Flash" Gordon (more like "Crash" Gordon), and a bunch more games were on that I didn't care about yet. But still baseball is back, and if you're anywhere near NJ today, you know it's spring (it was 72 degrees driving home tonight). I even grilled some hamburgers last night for the first time of the year....ahh, it's Spring - only 5 more months to football!
So, for anyone that reads the bottom of these Dish emails, you know that I once dreamed of being a sportscaster or sports writer. Well, today, I am excited to report, that the call has come. I submitted my work (domsdish.blogspot.com) to the Sports Editors of several papers (Burlington County Times, Trenton Times, Philadelphia Inquirer) and to the editors at ESPN.com and ESPN the Magazine and today I had a message on my phone from Gary Belsky of ESPN the Magazine! We've been in touch via email the last few weeks and he wanted to offer me a position at The Mag starting May 1! I will be able to work from home with less travel than now with my current job as an IT consultant! I won't divulge the starting salary, but lets just say this is indeed a "Dream Job!" Mr. Belsky encouraged me to keep writing The Dish in the meantime to keep up my skills, so be prepared for now. He was impressed with my work. Thanks all for the support, I'll keep you posted on my progress.
Around the balls:
More later this week!
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