About

Email: misschatter at gmail dot com. Or hey, you could post a comment on this site!

I grew up in the Chicago suburbs with a fanatic Cubs fan for a mother. The exclamations of Harry Caray echoed through my childhood from my mom’s transistor radio permanently set to WGN on the kitchen counter. I didn’t really catch baseball fever (who wants to turn out like their mother?) until the Nationals came to DC in 2005 and I found out one of the players was my first childhood friend after our mothers were pregnant together. The rest is history as I became keenly interested in the sport while watching a mysterious strand of my life’s history playing in the Nats inaugural season.

Naturally, growing up in a household where the lovable losers, the Cubs, were such a household name that my mom nearly named my baby brother after Ryne Sandberg, watching a forecast historically bad season out of the Nationals is not causing me much heartburn. That’s not to say I’ll remain constantly sunny…

Thanks to the Nationals, I’ve discovered a passion for sports photography. I’ve moved my way up from a Canon Rebel to a Canon 1d Mark III with some sweet glass, but still have more on my “want” list.

Thanks to my passion for technology, I’ve always been on the bleeding edge, initially considered geeky and weird when latching on to a new thing (like dialup service and SpryNet and IRC and then ISDN in the *gasp* 90s). You can find me on Facebook and Twitter — both of which seem to have been overwhelmed by more baseball stuff than personal stuff. I work as a system admin at washingtonpost.com (because they’re innovative!) and have had to swear to vow here that all of this is my personal opinion and no reflection on the company at all (but I did get to post on DC Sports Bog once!). I do not work in Editorial, so please don’t consider me your suggestions/complaint box.

My other passion is historic preservation and I’m currently working toward a certificate in historic preservation from Goucher College. I am the founder and president of a 501(c)3 non-profit organization which just acquired stewardship of a lighthouse outside Baltimore, Craighill Channel Lower Range Front Light. The enormity of that project both terrifies and exhilarates me.

(Photo screenshot of 2007 Opening Day BogTV episode – the usually hilarious Dan Steinberg sadly retired regular mini-series part of Comcast SportsNet’s Washington Post Live)