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(Oh yeah, we write in the first-person plural. And even we’re tired of it. Still, we can’t seem to shake the habit. Also, folks tell us that they prefer that we write that way. We we we…)
The blog was launched in April of 2007 in reaction to what we felt was a dearth of interesting baseball writing in Canada. (Though if you were ever to punish yourself and look at what was posted in the initial months, you’d be right to wonder whether if our contribution to the discourse was truly for better or for worse.)
Moving beyond the initial awkward stages of pondering what greatness might lie before Gustavo Chacin, the blog has grown over the past five seasons, registering its one millionth visit earlier in 2011.
Over the course of writing more than 1,500 entries, only one was composed from a basement, and it did not belong to our mother. Our writing has eventually found itself on Yahoo’s Big League Stew and in the National Post. And now, here on sportsnet.ca.
In our real life, we are an active member of society, often carousing and gambolling with a veritable who’s who of philosophers, scholars and members of the cognoscenti.
We’re married to Mrs. Tao, who is very proud of the blog, but who wishes we’d spend a little less time watching baseball.
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Career highlight:Having Buck Martinez say the name of my blog in the middle of a Jays' broadcast.
Special interests/hobbies:Reading, writing, and just enough arithmetic to get by without looking like a fool.
Bio: The Tao of Stieb is the name of our blog, and somehow, it’s become the name of its Ottawa-based blogger (that’s us).(Oh yeah, we write in the first-person plural. And even we’re tired of it. Still, we can’t seem to shake the habit. Also, folks tell us that they prefer that we write that way. We we we…)
The blog was launched in April of 2007 in reaction to what we felt was a dearth of interesting baseball writing in Canada. (Though if you were ever to punish yourself and look at what was posted in the initial months, you’d be right to wonder whether if our contribution to the discourse was truly for better or for worse.)
Moving beyond the initial awkward stages of pondering what greatness might lie before Gustavo Chacin, the blog has grown over the past five seasons, registering its one millionth visit earlier in 2011.
Over the course of writing more than 1,500 entries, only one was composed from a basement, and it did not belong to our mother. Our writing has eventually found itself on Yahoo’s Big League Stew and in the National Post. And now, here on sportsnet.ca.
In our real life, we are an active member of society, often carousing and gambolling with a veritable who’s who of philosophers, scholars and members of the cognoscenti.
We’re married to Mrs. Tao, who is very proud of the blog, but who wishes we’d spend a little less time watching baseball.
