Just What the World Needs…Another Baseball Blog

Greetings, and welcome to Jim and Bob’s Palatial Baseball Blog.

You may remember us from the classic Geocities-hosted page Jim and Bob’s Palatial Baseball Web Site. We put in five good years with Geocities, and we have nothing but fond memories of our time with the folks at Yahoo. But, as a wise man once said, things change. So we decided to make the move to the blogosphere.

For the benefit of readers who may be new to the Jim and Bob team, here are our FAQ, updated slightly from our original page:

Who are these guys?
Jim grew up in the suburbs of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. A life-long Chicago White Sox fan, Jim has lived through a lot, including artificial turf at Comiskey Park, uniform shorts, Jimmy Piersall, Ribbie and Rhubarb, New Comiskey, and Jamie Navarro. After one too many snow storms, Jim moved to California, where there is no such thing as a late game.

Bob was born and raised in suburban Chicago. Cubs fandom beckoned at a tender age, and soon the siren song of Jack Brickhouse had ensnared another young soul. Bob now lives in Wisconsin, where he listens to Ron Santo on WGN radio and concedes that trading Hee Seop Choi for Derrek Lee may not have been a bad idea after all.

Wait a minute -- Jim's a Sox fan and Bob's a Cubs fan! Can
you guys share a blog without driving each other crazy?
It’s been over five years now, and we’re still on speaking terms. So it seems to be working.

What makes you guys think you're experts, anyway?
We've spent many years playing, watching, and talking baseball. We’ve also spent years watching the talking heads on ESPN and Fox Sports, and reading the blather of guys like Phil Rogers and Bob Nightengale. So we figured, we know just as much as those guys (if not more). But the only thing we needed was an outlet. Thanks to the good folks at Google, we have one.

Oh, so you think you’re smarter than us, huh?
Heck no! But we do think that the vast majority of you readers are smarter than the baseball punditocracy. We started posting our thoughts on the web because we got tired of the pundits insulting our intelligence. We all deserve better than that.

So what are you guys doing this winter?
Same thing we do every winter – stare out the window and wait for spring.

That’s it in a nutshell. Feel free to drop us a line, or post a comment, or otherwise let us know what you think. Spring training’s a mere three weeks away, so there will be plenty to talk about!