Introductions Are In Order

Hi, there. My name is Brian Vaughan. I've been writing about baseball in small, spastic bursts for the past six years or so, and this is my 47th attempt at keeping a steady writing project centered on the sport going for a legitimate amount of time.

Below you can see an image of me threatening a toy and then read an accompanying list of things you should know about me.


-I'm a St. Louis Cardinals fan
-My favorite Cardinals of all-time include the likes of Albert Pujols, Jim Edmonds, Ray Lankford, and Chris Carpenter. I reserve the right to add to this list. The only subtraction I can imagine happening involves Albert turning down an eight year, $240 million extension, punching a pew full of babies, and then telling the media he hates pizza. Even then, I think he's staying.
-I'm happily married and happily have four cats. I unhappily have two dogs and this one fish I don't care about.
-I owe much of my advanced baseball knowledge to the people at Baseball Prospectus, Keith Law, FanGraphs (dry as they may be), and my own persistent mulling over of everyone's Baseball Reference page.
-I think the sweetest sound in the world is Mike Shannon after beer number 11 (so basically the third inning of a day game).
-I will unabashedly weave in cultural references with my baseball analysis, especially those that deal with music or movies.
-I play rotisserie baseball even though I realize it contradicts by sabermetric leanings. I don't care; it's fun, and that's what baseball should be.
-I intend to supplement my work here with awful, truly awful, MS Paint artwork and strange pictures I find.
-I'm 26, so I'm stupid.

That's all I've got for you in terms of introducing myself. Next time around around, I'm getting right down to business.