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Unlike when I surpassed the 2,000th post<\/a> to my brog, I was very aware of my post count as I crept closer and closer to #3,000.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n As a baseball fan who loves statistics and numbers, I knew a post like this was going to take shape.\u00a0 3,000 is a big deal to baseball fans, because it\u2019s among the most immortal of milestones, primarily when it comes to strikeouts for pitchers and hits for batters.\u00a0 And because I\u2019m a baseball fan who likes to write and brog, it\u2019s a big deal to me that I\u2019m closing in on my 3,000th post.<\/span><\/p>\n Furthermore, it\u2019s always been a big deal to me to remain consistent, dedicated and committed to my personal brog that nobody reads, because throughout the passage of time, I\u2019ve witnessed countless people try and start blogs, and they\u2019ll do great for a few days, weeks, and maybe a month, but inevitably, they all give up. They throw in the towel, make excuses, and just plain fail.<\/span><\/p>\n Professional athletes, interesting people, wrestlers, baseball players, and numerous friends and acquaintances that I know all fall into this category.\u00a0 There are people who have even been paid and made an occupation of blogging, who even fail and lose their resolve and give up.<\/span><\/p>\n And all these people who fail and give up, it\u2019d be easy to say not mad just disappointed<\/em> to them all, but I know I am in the tremendous minority of minorities of people who can remain dedicated to something as senseless and important to nobody but myself as I am.\u00a0 Instead of passing too much judgment whenever I see someone start their own blog, I just kind of take a mental stopwatch and try to remember when they started, so I can try to guess when they invariably failed.<\/span><\/p>\n Because not everyone can be like me.\u00a0 I\u2019m like the Ichiro of brogging, which is a little ironic considering there\u2019s a nationalistic dislike for him which is made all the more appropriate considering at the time I\u2019m writing this, the World Baseball Classic has started up again and Korea has already shit the bed and is going to rely on a win against Japan in order to have a chance at survival.<\/span><\/p>\n But in spite of my feelings about Ichiro, he\u2019s still arguably the greatest hitter in the history of baseball, with over 3,000 hits in MLB, and almost 2,000 more from his time in NPB.\u00a0 And despite the fact that this is officially post #3,000 on my WordPress, there were still 483 posts over ten years from my brog when it was way more primitive, and I was posting individual HTML files to my old site.\u00a0 Those are like my Japanese hits that few but me want to acknowledge, but in the grand spectrum of things, they\u2019re just further justification of my brogging greatness.<\/span><\/p>\n So 3,000 posts in the can, and I have zero intention of ever stopping.\u00a0 Sports and wrestling can come to an end but I\u2019ll always find something to write about.\u00a0 I have kids, I have a city where I live where I\u2019m always going to be critical of, and I will always have an opinion on everything, and sometimes I will write about them.<\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s taken 13 years for me to make 3,000 posts on WordPress, I wonder if in 2036 I\u2019ll be at or near 6,000?\u00a0 Either way, as long as I live and breathe, we will eventually find out.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Unlike when I surpassed the 2,000th post to my brog, I was very aware of my post count as I crept closer and closer to #3,000.\u00a0 As a baseball fan who loves statistics and numbers, I knew a post like this was going to take shape.\u00a0 3,000 is a big deal to baseball fans, because … Continue reading Post #3,000: I\u2019m basically the Ichiro of brogging<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[62,100,158,83,91,4,58,6],"class_list":["post-49267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-baseball","tag-comparison","tag-milestone","tag-observations","tag-pf","tag-programming","tag-sports","tag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49269,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49267\/revisions\/49269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}