Season Two Update

Time to catch up.

As we barrel toward Opening Day and I try to get season two of Powder Blue Nostalgia off the ground, a few things have become abundantly clear. First, I’m way behind schedule, but I still hope to start the new season more or less in sync with the MLB schedule.

Second, I don’t know if I’ll be able to keep up the weekly schedule I maintained last year. A weekly article might not seem like much compared to some newsletters, but throw in the writing and research on top of a full-time job, three kids ranging from seventeen to seven, a wife who likes to have some attention every now and then, and other projects I’m working on, and I’m skeptical I can keep up that same kind of pace.

I still enjoy talking baseball though, so I don’t want to give it up. I will try to write as much as possible, and who knows, maybe I’ll surprise us all. But I don’t want to promise anything I can’t deliver, so the publication schedule just might be a bit more sporadic. If this strongly disappoints you, please make your voice heard and tell me you want me to enable paid subscriptions. If enough people do that, well, I’ll gladly find more time to write. But since I’m not counting on that to happen, this is the way it’s going to be.

That said, I promised a few tweaks for the future when I published my last post in January, so let me give you a quick idea of what that will look like.

Baseball history will continue to be PBN’s primary focus, with an emphasis on stories over stats. Not that I’ve ever shied away from stats, but stories have always been my main interest, and if anything, I’ll lean into that even more in season two. This newsletter is personal for me, and I’ve tried to share baseball stories as related through my own memories and connections to the subject matter. Expect even more of that moving forward. Rather than simply making it about myself, my hope is always that it inspires readers to recall these stories through their own personal lens.

What will change is the scope of the newsletter. Powder Blue Nostalgia was conceived as an exploration of baseball in my childhood, when baseball mattered to me the most, ranging roughly from 1985-94. But I feel like I covered the subjects I needed to get out of my system last year. That’s not to say I completely exhausted the time period. I could probably write about that decade forever if I wanted to. However, I don’t want to. Not exclusively, anyway. Having scratched that itch, I’m ready to expand.

I will still write about that era, but I have three decades worth of baseball I’ve watched in the meantime. And as a history buff, there’s a whole century of baseball before I was born to explore. So I’ll bounce around as I see fit.

I’ll probably even wade into the present day from time to time. After all, baseball history is great, but they’re still playing the game and I have plenty of thoughts on what’s currently going on. I don’t know how often I’ll feel the need to comment on the present, but I suspect it will be only a small portion of the articles I produce. Unless the Royals actually find a way to contend in 2024, in which case I will most likely be insufferable.

With that in mind, I’ll wrap this up now. Please feel free to share this and future articles with your baseball fan friends, and we’ll keep building this thing up. Thank you for subscribing to PBN and here’s to a great baseball season. Play ball!

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