And so begins my journey on the world of blogging.
Welcome to my blog. I've created this thing after mulling the idea of having my own blog for the better part of a month. I kept finding myself limited in voicing my opinion on various topics, and this blog became the answer. A forum to express my person ideas on sports, politics, and whatever else, as well as a place to gain a different perspective on said issues.
One of the most difficult steps in creating this blog for me was naming the blog itself. I posed this question to many of my friends on facebook, and they came up with many names, including Blog Seger, Big Balls, Notes on a Scandal, Rings on Parade, The United Sports and Sorts of Ringer (USSR), Bring in the Ringer, Super-Sweet, Big-Final, Madness-Frenzy-Fever!, How Sports Writers Overuse Idioms, and 2010 chicago blackhawks: best sports franchise ever? Ultimately, I settled on "The Dead Ringer" for several reasons. First, another one of my friends suggested "The Ringer", a simple, catchy name I actually liked. I added the "Dead" part because it got me thinking back to my 7-year old machine-pitch baseball team. At the end of the season, we had a playoff tournament. One of the cool things that happened was during the playoffs each team got to have an announcer for every kid when they went up to bat, which was one of the kid's dad or something. This was all terribly exciting for us 7 year olds. Our announcer added a touch of flair by giving each kid nicknames. The announcer christened me Jason "The Dead" Ringer. Since that summer, that nickname had all but faded into oblivion, until the creation of this blog. It seems fitting to me that both have to do with with sports, thus The Dead Ringer blog was created.
As an added bonus, the term dead ringer means an exact duplicate. The term came from horse racing, when bookies would illegally replace a fast horse with a nearly identical horse, except that it would be a much slower horse. This works out for me, cause hopefully people mistake me for Deadspin. Oh, the Irony.
So there you have it. Thanks to all those who will read this, the whole two of you. I will post my first real column in a couple of hours, "The Summer of Lebron".
Thanks All!
