My Background and Page News

Well, here we are, the newest chapter of my sports media career. I’ve always dreamt of putting together my own personal website full of my takes on different events, summaries, and stories of my own experiences. Before I go any deeper into this article I want to shout out and thank one of my college friends for showing me that this can be a reality rather than just a hope. Not that long ago Nolan Bulmahn showcased his new blog website Bears & Company. At the bottom of this post I’ll leave a link that will direct to his blog. That being said let’s get this inaugural post underway. 

Starting pretty basic, my name is Joe Spotanski and I’m from the St. Louis area. At the date of this post, I’m a sophomore Sports Communication major and Journalism minor at THE Bradley University. I’ve linked with sports ever since I was born, my first live professional sporting event was Game 7 of the 2000 Stanley Cup Conference Quarterfinals when I was four months old.  Based on that alone I credit my family with my introduction to the sports world. As I began to grow and develop I was introduced into the world of baseball. My first baseball memory is from October 27th, 2006 when my father and I watched as Adam Wainwright struck out Brandon Inge for St. Louis’ 10th World Series title. Not too long after that, I joined my community’s little league system. I based my game off of my idol, Yadier Molina. I donned number 4, played catcher, tried to learn crazy signs, etc, etc. My main take away from that time in my life is that although baseball was 100% my passion, I decided that I would stick to casually playing and following the sport rather than pursuing it to play in the major league, because I really sucked at playing. Even after an early retirement baseball was my life, enough so that my main career goal is to help an MLB organization any way that I can. 

With my huge grand plan, I hope that this can be used as a stepping stone. I highly doubt that this will get an internship or land me a job, rather I see this page as an opportunity to grow as a writer, a reporter, and as a professional. I see this page as a vent for my creative mind to spew out all of my crazy thoughts and practice reporting on various sports news. 

I apologize if this opening post is a little chaotic/ scattered around, I’m very excited to put out my thoughts on a new medium. Hopefully you’re as excited as I am. Thank you so much for reading along and I hope you’ll stick around for posts to come. 

- Joe

Nolan's Page: https://nolanbul2.wixsite.com/mysite