Blogger Shame: a random musing

With every new semester (this is my tenth!) comes a whole new set of introductions to classmates. Hi, I’m Minda, and I’m a baseball nerd.

….or, that is what I would say if I wanted all my new classmates to never talk to me again. Instead, I almost never tell new acquaintances that I’m a blogger. If I must mention it, I always get all squirrelly and say something like “I have a Royals website.” That itself sounds awfully nerdy as well, but not as bad as those hideous words “blog” and “blogger.” Outside of this comfortable little corner of the Internet, people don’t understand. You guys get it – we all love the Royals to a degree that simply reading Dick Kaegel’s cheerleading on Royals.com isn’t good enough. So really, all we are doing when we blog (or read blogs, or comment on them) is asking more questions and gaining more knowledge than what is handed out to casual fans. That doesn’t seem like such a bad thing, but out in the cold, harsh world, people just don’t get it.

And it certainly doesn’t help that most “normal” people don’t even follow baseball. So not only do they have to wrap their heads around obsessive baseball fandom, they have to face down that hideous word: blog. I think the non-blog reading members of the public – which is to say, most members of the public – still picture bloggers the way Bissinger et al do. Basement-dwellers. Freaks. 100% unattractive. I am, at most, one of those things, but that ugly little word, b-l-o-g, makes most people think I’m all of them.

So, I avoid bringing it up.

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