Raubinger spotlighted by L.A. Times
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Arroyo Grande High senior-to-be third baseman and pitcher Kyle Raubinger was featured online in the Los Angeles Times this week as he prepares for the prestigious Area Code Games showcase. Raubinger will play for the Milwaukee Brewers’ blue team in front of hundreds of college and professional scouts at the six-day event starting Thursday at Blair Field in Long Beach.
According to
(which we’re tentatively planning to run in print in Thursday’s Tribune), Raubinger — a reigning all-CIF Southern Section Division 2 second-team honoree — is being recruited by a who’s-who of West Coast powers including UCLA, Fresno State and Cal State Fullerton.
It should be interesting to see how scouts will like to utilize Raubinger, who came into this past season as more of a known commodity offensively, but , where he won PAC 7 Most Valuable Pitcher acclaim and tied for second in wins among Southern Section juniors, with nine. What do you think? At the next level, is Raubinger better suited as a pitcher or as a position player?
He’s the second area talent over the past year to be extensively spotlighted by the king of all regional newspapers, joining recently graduated , an Arroyo Grande resident who was an ESPN RISE Cal-Hi Sports medium-schools all-state pick before signing with Cal Poly.
Elsewhere over the past couple days in a relatively busy offseason:
o Recently graduated Morro Bay golf standout
for the second year in a row, carding a two-round 140 total at San Luis Obispo Country Club. Hansen, a Los Osos native and UC Davis signee, shot an opening-round 5-under-par 66 before following it with a 74 to tie two others for the top sectional qualifying draw. The championship will be held Aug. 23-29 in Chambers Bay, Wash.
Morro Bay High's Matt Hansen, a UC Davis signee shown last year, qualified for the U.S. Amateur Championship for the second year in a row this week. — Tribune file photo by David Middlecamp (C)
o The Central Coast Crushers summer tennis club opened 1-1 Tuesday at the three-day, 16-team, coed World Junior National Invitational held at Barnes Tennis Center in San Diego. The Crushers began the day falling to the Midwest Charging Colts, 39-37, before downing the Reckless Rebels, 41-30. Their roster is made up of Arroyo Grande’s
and Sean Hollister, as well as San Luis Obispo’s Joshua Milla on the boys side, and
and Abigail Will of San Luis Obispo, as well as Atascadero’s Amber Petersen on behalf of the girls.
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Blogging, which I define as published informal writing, makes me happy.
I blog because I enjoy it.
Why do I find blogging so fulfilling?
Briefly, blogging provides me with a creative outlet to focus my thinking and share my ideas and interests with others.
Even as these are sufficient reasons to blog, there are certain particulars of blogging that make it absurdly powerful, and this post attempts to get at these reasons.
What is so powerful about blogging?
Blogging enables me to write about whatever I want.
I can write about the particulars of property rights, ideas for workout routines, the consequences of holding a certain belief, or how best to apply an understanding of human evolution to modern life.
I can blog about my personal doings or the book I just finished reading.
The informality of blogging provides an enormous amount of creative freedom to speak my mind.
This freedom caters to my tendency towards boredom with overspecialization.
It allows me to jump from subject to subject as often as I choose.
Seth Roberts described this purpose of blogging wonderfully in : “[blogging] allows us to talk about whatever we want without fear of boring our listeners.”
With blogging there is little fear of rejection and an empowering feeling of control.
Label it “narcisistic” if you want, does it really matter?
Blogging provides such a fantastic creative outlet that it is a worthwhile pursuit for this reason alone.
Blogging focuses my curiosity and clarifies my thinking.
Putting my thoughts into writing requires a “good enough” understanding of a concept for my written explanation to successfully transfer the idea to others (including me at future date).
This put-it-in-writing induced constraint helps clarify my thinking and can also aid my memory.
Somewhat related to clarified thought, blogging provides an end-product for my curiosity.
Whereas a random interest in parkour may mean running any number of Google queries on the subject only to be done with it, the add-on of blogging creates a deliverable: I can jot down my findings for future reference and produce something tangible and useful from what would otherwise be a passing curiosity.
Blogging results in the mass production of ideas. Creating a blog is cheap, which means that anyone can do it (See below for how).
Since bloggers have the power to write whatever they want, an enormous amount of writing is generated.
Of course, most of these blog posts will be quickly written and forgotten.
And many (if not most) of the ideas generated by bloggers will be duds.
Regardless, the raw abundance of ideas presented through blogs is one of the prevailing strengths of the medium.
This is because the ideas captured in blog posts are public.
Blogs, whether written anonymously or otherwise, are a means for publishing writing.
Whatever I blog about is almost instantly assimilated into the vast bounty of information that is the Internet.
Once published, blog posts can be searched and linked.
Thanks to search, similarly interested individuals can find my writings and I can find theirs.
The public nature of blogging thereby prevents both good and bad ideas from obscurity.
Bad ideas are subject to correction from reader feedback.
Good ideas are made better by the same.
Public discourse on blogs occurs via two pathways.
The more basic of the two is that readers are allowed to comment on my blog directly.
The alternative, and potentially more powerful pathway is by indirect feedback on a fellow blogger’s site that is hyperlinked to my site.
The resultant combination of blogging and linking is volatile: hyperlinks are the oxygen off which the best blogs thrive.
Whether it is simply another blogger sending readers to my site via a blogroll link (a sort of blanket “seal of approval”), linking to a specific post, or through submission of blog posts to the virtual watercooler, social bookmarking sites like , , , ,
or , hyperlinks can provide an immense amount of exposure.
Of course, the more linked a blog becomes, the more likely it is to be linked: .
This means that a blog post containing a good idea (or a good blog generally) has the potential to spread virally.
It is through being linked that an idea can go from obscurity to widespread consideration in a very brief time.
Perhaps one of the greatest powers of blogging is how all of the above characteristics provide me with a “home” in the Blogosphere.
When I write, even as I do it for my own benefits, the writing is done within a community.
Random ideas no longer need to stagnate within my mind: I can publish them on my blog and share them with others who are want to hear what I have to say.
I contribute to this community in my own peculiar way, blogging on whatever strikes my fancy.
I keep tabs on my neighbors by visiting their sites and .
Through this community ideas are freed to germinate, mutate, evolve, or cross-fertilize with each other, producing results that can scarcely be predicted but are almost always eye-opening and sometimes even world-changing.
Indeed, that is the benefit of living in any community, in real space or online.
Communities provide the potential for fortuitous opportunities & luck, in other words.
That’s why we choose to live with and near other human beings.
Its why civilization exists.
To share, trade, create, and profit from the resulting opportunities.
The main difference between communities in real space and those online is that real space communities tend to be set up based on geographical proximity to your neighbors.
In a way, proximity still reigns suprem however, it’s the proximity of minds, ideas, and intellect.
Blogging eliminates physical barriers to i as a result, more transactions occur and better ideas and communities are created.
It is for all of these reasons that blogging is one of the most dynamic aspects of the Internet.
It is changing the way we learn and the speed at which we create and record knowledge.
Despite this immense power, most don’t realize the huge upside potential to maintaining little more than a public journal.
The reality is that they don’t have to & like me, most bloggers start blogging because they think they’ll enjoy it, and of course, most do.
That the practice results in countless other benefits?
Do you have a blog?
If not, consider setting one up.
Blogging is nothing more than writing down your thoughts and publishing them.
Yet doing so can change your life for the better in ways that you can’t currently predict.
Anyone can set up a blog for free using services like , , or .
If you’re feeling more industrious, you can secure your own , buy a domain name, and work through setting up a
installation.
It’s really not all that hard and probably worth the effort if you want to make the most off your productive efforts.
However, if you’re a bit intimidated to go this route, just pursue the free versions & you’ve got very little to lose by starting up a blog, and as I’ve illustrated above, a great deal to gain.
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