It's Almost Over...

I have to admit that this class has been difficult, not in the content, but in the volume of the work. For those of you that are unaware, I'm in the midst of taking 7 classes this semester, which means a lot of short nights by itself. However, in addition to that workload, every day brings us one day closer to the day where I essentially don't sleep: draft day.

By draft day, I mean Major League Baseball's amateur draft. I've already written some about what it is I do, but there are more developments happening every day that bring me closer and closer to living life as a workaholic.

First, I've completed a transition to a professional blogging platform, and I'm now a part of the most widely-read sports blogging platform in America, Sports Blog Nation. My blog, which you can find here, is one of 35 baseball blogs on their network, and it's the only free blog nationwide that provides nationwide scouting reports. The transition took a lot of time and energy, but now it's essentially a real job in addition to going to school and being a husband, so time is short these days.

In addition to the transition to blogging full-time, I'm also working on a pair of monetizing deals related to MLB draft content. First is the MLB Draft Notebook, a PDF product that is due to be published in early June that will cover scouting reports on 750 players and all 30 baseball teams. My estimate after writing preliminary reports on all those players is that it will be north of 500 pages. Goodbye sleep. Second is a coming partnership with a well-known scouting company that will roughly triple the visits I get. They're about as well-respected and widely-read as you can get, so trying to nail down the specifics of the partnership is crucial.

I guess the main issue of this entry is that technology opens so many doors for people, yet really overextends people, as well. I'm simply tired. Once I get through these last couple weeks of the semester, I essentially don't have time to breathe. I have to be working hard on the Draft Notebook, as well as the blog, then May classes start up soon after. What happened to vacations?

Anyway, this is due to be one of the last blog posts made here, and I definitely don't see myself ever writing in this blog again once the semester is done. One full-time blog is enough. Starting June 10, the day after the draft concludes, I think I will sleep for 36 hours.