Sean Comerford's Kick Arse Blog

So what’s new?

• I had a kid a few months ago. Ryan Christopher (shown above relaxing at home) is doing great… he’s healthy, more or less sleeps through the night (not that Daddy ever wakes up when he cries anyway) ever since 3 weeks and, all in all, is an awesome little guy who is the heir to King Sean’s throne. It’s hard to remember what life was like before having a kid – I suspect it’s the brain’s way of preventing you from sorely missing all the free time you used to have… but being a father is great and very worth it!

• After 5 and 1/2 years, I left Sun Microsystems. I enjoyed my time at Sun but they are struggling big time and I got tired of token raises and waiting to get laid off so I started half heartedly looking around for a new job. In the process, I accidentally posted my resume on Monster or some such site… I honestly did NOT mean to do so because last time I did I instantly got dozens of calls from tech recruiters which was flattering but very annoying. Same thing happened this time… got about a half dozen calls from recruiters in a hour or so before realizing what I had done and taking the resume down. One recruiter promised a job at a “major sports firm”… recruiters are sometimes like car salesman so I figured it was something stupid like a pro kickball league but, feeling like a sucker, actually called her back. Good thing I did….
• I started working for Major League Baseball Advanced Media 6/26/2006… each of the Major League Baseball team owners kicked in some pocket change (i.e. a few million bucks each) and started the company about six years ago. It (not surprisingly) runs mlb.com and the sites of every MLB team… but we also run many other sites including the site for Major League Soccer, Minor League Baseball and World Championship Sports Network, College Sports TV and others. They even handled the video streaming for the 2006 NCAA March Madness which set the record for concurrent internet video streaming. So I went from a 40,000 public company struggling to make money to a 400 person private company that, from what I can tell, is raking in the cash. It’s a refreshing change… and I get free baseball stuff! I’ve only been at MLB.com for a month, but so far it’s very cool.

Allright… that’s enough for now.

The king is a busy and needs to go attend to royal matters in the throne room

Blogs (short for web logs if you didn’t already know) are all the rage these days… everyone from the snot nosed kid next door to rich and powerful CEO’s of multi-billion dollar companies are writing them.

Personally, I kinda thought it was stupid to have a blog. And I still kinda do. But here you are reading my blog… so what gives?

Well, it’s half online journal for myself, half to make up for the lack of actual updates to my web site and half because I just love to hear myself talk (or type as the case may be).

So, from time to time, I’ll post blog updates here. You can even subscribe to an RSS feed and be notified when I do. And Lord knows you cannot live without reading my blog the second it’s updated!

Hmm… I like to hear myself talk… my web site has a blog… hmm