2062 Shark Bites TN No. 5 - these things happen

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900+ views on an obscure forum post about fake baseball.

I'm a journalist who services an area home to over 200,000 people. If a story gets 900 clicks, well, I'll take it. What gets clicks? Nothing important, at least in sports. The things that are truly interesting don't resonate, but "oh boy Tommy's in the Athlete of the Poll!" Bam. 10,000 clicks.

Our photog and I did a package on ice cream recently. It was very brief. The leg work consisted of me eating ice cream. That story met goal and then some. I did extensive research into the state's newest sport: flag football. Interviews, video, lots of interneting. Very long story that focused on the athletes and did a very neat job highlighting their story while also explaining how the sport works. It fell short of goal by about 50 percent.

These things happen.

The Sharks are... losing. Often. We've had many days recently where the announced attendance was merely preseason tickets sold. We should've sold more of them. This team sucks.

We fell in a rut early with injuries right out of the gate and with a severe lack of depth beyond the core. Genuine attempts were made to right the ship, but sometimes she seeks the peace of the abyss. It's not all bad. There continues to be signs of growth in organizational health. I'll get to that in a less dreary post later on.

Maybe I'm approaching it wrong. Maybe I should be swapping my entire roster on a quarterly basis (JK, commish). The GBC is by design a faster world made up of drifters, souls either hanging on to a dream or pretending they had one to begin with. And with them you must win. It's not meant to be a home.

But here's the thing. Home, for me, is a place I can find solitude and comfort and consistency in a world that perpetually shifts its attitudes and rearranges its scenery. That sounds juxtapositional, and it is.

I'm watching a show on Netflix called The Terror. It's older, but I just got Netflix so it's all new to me.

Go Sharks.