"What the hell?"
Well, you might be thinking that, and certainly I could understand where you’re coming from—after all, Kongming’s Archives has been Kongming’s Archives for nearly ten years now. Why would you expect to see something baseball related? This good question is worthy of an answer.
Some of you have grown to know me on the forum, and if you know me, you’ve realized by now that I have a pretty short attention span. In fact, it is rather remarkable that I’ve been able to focus on the Three Kingdoms for as long as I have. Anyway, my attention span started to do its thing about a year ago and I’ve been knuckle dragging ever since—knuckle dragging so long that my knuckles hurt from too much dragging. I need to do something new—something which inspires me. So I figured, hey, I spent so much time and energy focusing on Asia—Chinese history, a Chinese novel, and a series of (admittedly fun) games (mostly developed in Japan)—but what about the Western world? What about America? I should do something Americanish—Westernish—to round myself out: to become a well-rounded human being. And what’s more American than Baseball? You in the back, no, it’s not obesity. Baseball is slightly more American than obesity, but the hotdogs probably confuse things. Anyway, baseball.
Baseball: I’m going to blog about it. I don’t know much about it right now. In fact, I know little more today than I did back when I was busy sucking at it in high school. But what’s the fun in becoming knowledgeable about a subject before you start discussing it? I’m going to learn about it with all of you right here. Eventually I’ll become a go-to source for all things Baseball, but for the time being you can simply entertain yourself with my complete lack of knowledge.
So anyway, please share your thoughts and ideas. You can write to us in the Home Run of the Three Kingdoms topic at our forum, still named Scholars of Shen Zhou (by the way, what should we change its name to?) and you’re welcome to contact me directly by email as well. I thought it through and I'm going to stay at kongming.net. I'm sure some of you are baseball fans—or can become baseball fans—and who knows, maybe we'll find out that baseball and the Three Kingdoms have quite a lot in common!
