The Seven Year Itch - The End of SawxBlog

Cheers to all who've been with me, both new and old - been an excelent journey. (SawxBlog Photo) "If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story."- Orson Welles I type this final post through a haze of tears. Ending SawxBlog, something I've put so much of myself into, is not an easy decision. I'm confident in my choice to retire the site, but this confidence makes typing these words more hard than easy - and at times, impossible. SawxBlog has assisted in chronicling a personal journey for the better part of a decade, using baseball as a vehicle to touch on things greater than the greatest game. So much has happened since its inception on December 29, 2004: Eight very long years ago. I've felt this way before, the first time being in the winter of 1997. The final buzzer resounded through a half-full High School Gym as a basketball shiftlessly bounced towards an unmanned corner. With that push of a button, a period was pla...