Alright, let’s talk about what I did today. The focus? Simple. Home runs. All the ones happening today.
I woke up and decided, yeah, today’s the day I’m actually gonna follow through and track this stuff properly. Not just glance at the scores, you know? Really keep a log. So, I got my coffee, sat down at the desk, and fired up the old computer.
First thing, opened up a blank sheet. Nothing fancy, just a basic spreadsheet. I figured I needed columns for a few things:
- Player Name
- Team
- Which Inning
- Maybe the Pitcher
- Game Situation (like runners on base, score at the time)
Pulled up the game schedules and my usual sports apps. Had a couple of browser tabs open, ready to catch the alerts as they happened. The early games started, and I began plugging in the info. Copy, paste, type a little. It felt kinda tedious at first, not gonna lie.
Getting into the Rhythm
But after the first hour or so, I got into a groove. You start seeing names pop up. You notice little things. Like, ‘Hey, didn’t he just hit one yesterday?’ or ‘Wow, this pitcher is getting shelled today.’ It stops being just data entry and starts feeling like you’re piecing together the day’s baseball story, one dinger at a time.
It actually reminded me of this job I had way back when. Totally different field, mind you. Involved sorting through stacks and stacks of old documents, organizing them. Felt pointless most days. But I developed my own little system, found ways to make it efficient, even found some genuinely interesting bits hidden in there that nobody else cared about. It was about finding order in the chaos, I guess.
Doing this today felt kinda the same. Taking this stream of home run information and giving it some structure, my structure. Not because anyone asked me to, but just to do it. To see the list grow. To have a concrete record of what went down today in terms of power hitting.
Watching the List Grow
Had a couple of games muted on a second screen, just keeping an eye on the action or the score bugs. The spreadsheet filled up quicker than I thought. Saw some big names go deep, saw some rookies get their first maybe. Added notes here and there if something seemed unusual.
By the evening, the list was pretty substantial. Had to scroll quite a bit. It’s nothing world-changing, just a simple record of who hit baseballs really far today. But you know what? The process itself felt good. Just setting out to do a specific thing and seeing it through. Kept me busy, kept my mind occupied on something straightforward.
So yeah, that was my ‘home runs today’ project. Just a personal log, a bit of practice in focused tracking. Simple stuff, but satisfying in its own way.
