Contact, growth, etc.

As I believe I've mentioned before, I started a Twitter account for this blog a little while back. Since a little bit of time has passed and people are reading a little more, I thought I'd share that again. Here's the link to the Thus Spoke Keith Hernandez Twitter page.

If you're interested (and who knows whether you are or not), I have a personal account as well. It's a little more...let's say colorful, but nothing that someone over the age of sixteen can't handle. So here's the link for that.

EDIT: By the way, there's now a "Contact" box at the bottom of the page. So there's that.

As time passes, I'm sort of hoping that more and more people will come on board here, and readership will increase. It would be a huge help if the honored few who are a part of this now evangelize a little on its behalf. In short, tell your friends.

Quick morning stuff

First things first, I just want to give fair warning that this weekend may be a little light from me. My brother's graduation open house is today, and tomorrow I'll be attending the Indianapolis 500. I'll be right back up to speed after that, though, and I may be able to write more than I expect.
More stuffOkay, now to some real things. This blog has a Twitter account. Well, technically I have a second Twitter account devoted to this blog, but you get what I mean. You can get updates on when things are posted and little tidbits and things like that. If you like Twitter, you might hit that up. Here is the link.

UConn's mens basketball program has been accused of eight major recruiting infractions. That's not very good. I've never been a huge UConn fan for reasons I can't explain, but though there's always been something that rubbed me the wrong way about the school and Jim Calhoun, I honestly can't say I saw this coming at all. Just from my cursory examination of the charges, they appear to be mostly similar to those leveled against Kelvin Sampson back when he was with my alma mater (that would be Indiana University), only worse, because "false and misleading information" was given to investigators. I don't know what the endgame is going to be, but from experience I can say that if it's anything like it was/is at IU, it's about to be really not fun to be a UConn fan.

Speaking of recruiting violations, it looks like Kentucky's Eric Bledsoe may be involved in some of them. This is all still in the preliminary stages, so who knows what will come of it -- there may very well be nothing. But considering John Calipari's track record of being involved in violations (even when not directly committing the violations), this could very well be something. At the very least, we should keep an eye on it.

More will be coming later, including (hopefully) something on the NBA playoffs (BEAT L.A.) and a moderately well-informed take on the Stanley Cup Finals (%@!# PHILLY). As you can tell, I have some opinions.

Here we go.

Keith Hernandez is awesome, and you can't convince me otherwise.

Why, hello there. If you're reading this, you probably know me (or you're just following me via Facebook or Twitter), so I'm not going to go into too much detail about who I am or why I'm writing this blog. But in short: I'm Thomas, and I'm a sports fan. I like baseball and hockey and soccer; I dabble in basketball and football. I like the Mets and the Red Sox. I like the Islanders and the Capitals. I like Arsenal FC. I like the Pacers and the Celtics and the Steelers.

I'm going to write mostly about the sports and the teams that I like (see above). I'll branch out a bit from that, but we'll see how often I see fit to do that. Hopefully most of the time I will be at least slightly amusing; sometimes that won't be possible, but when it is, hopefully I can bring a smile to the reader's face. Occasionally I will write about things that are not sports, like music and random facts and stuff. No politics, though -- I have another blog for that which I will likely plug liberally. I might occasionally link to other stuff I've written in the past. I'll link to things other people have written as well.

Hopefully as time passes we can have some recurring series and inside jokes and things like that. I'm thinking of having a Twitter-ish Music Monday and Follow Friday thing, so we'll see how that goes. In case you can't tell, I'm playing this blog a bit by ear. I have plans, and those will be revealed to us all as time passes.

Also, in case you're wondering, the blog name comes from the best first baseman ever, Keith Hernandez. He played for the Mets in the 1980s, including the 1986 world championship team. He was awesome, and should be in the Hall of Fame (but we'll probably get to that later). Additionally, he's now part of the best TV crew in the business, as a color analyst for the Mets on SNY. He says ridiculous stuff quite often. Hence, "Thus Spoke Keith Hernandez." See what I did there?

Basically, all I ask you is this. Read my stuff for a week. If you don't like it, give it another week. Repeat that until you do like it.

Thanks for reading. Let's have some fun.