Are you going to spring training?
Spring training is right around the corner. Unfortunately for me, Tuscon Electric Park isn’t. I live in Oakland, CA, where Eric Byrnes once played, and can’t take time off work right now to go to games that won’t count anyway. (My calendar is marked for April 14, 15 and 16, when the Diamondbacks play three real games against the Giants in San Francisco).
But some of you who are reading this will bask in both the warm Arizona sun and the glow of hope and anticipation that is spring training. It’s to you that this post is addressed.
Would you like to see your name in print? Would you like your pictures and videos featured on a blog that is part of a great family of Arizona sports blogs? Might you even be willing to be interviewed for a podcast on fan experiences at spring training, or do an interview yourself?
I’m looking for people to take pictures or video, record audio, write articles or be interviewed about the Diamondbacks’ spring training. You don’t have to do all these things, and you don’t have to do what you do choose all the time you are there. Just do what you can and want to do.
You can be a snowbird on vacation for a month or a local playing hooky from work or school for a day. You can file from Tucson or one of the other cities in which the D’Backs will play their exhibition schedule. You can even be a fan of another team! (Shameless, ain’t I?) Just give me some good quality D’Backs feedback, so that we all know what’s going on and some of us who need it can get the vicarious experience of spring baseball.
I’m also interested in off-the-field atmospheric pieces. Going to ST with your family or a group of friends? Let me know what it’s like to do that.
And, of course, you are welcome to write blog comments on other people’s stuff that is posted here.
I won’t be paying you money but you will get full credit for all your work–you keep the copyrights. I’m just looking for permission to use–and a piece of your 15 minutes of fame. If any of you are wannabe sports reporters, here’s your chance to practice. I’m not asking for exclusivity so if you want to publish your stuff on your own website or anywhere else, I won’t mind.
If I get some good video clips, I might even compile a movie of them for my LiveVideo Channel http://www.livevideo.com/radiokellia (LiveVideo is THE video-sharing site on which to be. Eric Byrnes has a channel there, too! http://www.livevideo.com/EricByrnes)
AZ Sportshub has support for video. Ever notice that TV screen on the front page? I’m not making any promises, but that could be YOU up there.
I’m going to be the editor, so don’t worry if you make a typo, dangle a participle, or don’t have time to cull the best of your audio or video for me. I’ll take care of those details. You can rest assured that I will present your work in the best shape I can, so that you, your family and your friends can point to it with pride.
So, if you’re interested, drop me a line with the dates you are going to be at camp or otherwise at a game and what kind of thing(s) you are interested in doing and with what equipment, and I will answer back with the technical details.
Don’t just watch the media, BE the media!
ByrnesBlogger1
P.S. Stuff about Eric Byrnes is not required but is most welcome!
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Kellia Ramares is a freelance journalist, poet and baseball blogger from Oakland, CA. Kellia writes (and does some audio work) about baseball, especially the Arizona Diamondbacks, on her blog, Down The Left Field Line: Life, Baseball & Eric Byrnes. (http://byrnesblog.azsportshub.com), under the name ByrnesBlogger1. She expects to expand her sports journalism from baseball fandom to stories on social issues in a sports context in a website she is building in the fourth quarter of 2007 to be an annex to the "Byrnesblog".
Contact: ByrnesBlogger1[at]azsportshub.com
http://byrnesblog.azsportshub.com
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