My final blog post here

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Some anticlimactic news: This is my final blog post on this website for a while (maybe ever).

My first post was published the day I launched my redesigned site on Aug. 1, 2014. I said in that post that I didn’t anticipate blogging frequently.

At that time, I had recently finished grad school and was looking for full-time work. So the site was mostly a portfolio site and partly a way to show I was keeping busy. Four months later, I landed at Sports Illustrated, and I’ve now been there for nine years.

You can sort of see that in the frequency of posts. I wrote seven times in those four months of job searching, and then only 12 more in the next nine years. (And none since 2020!)

The blog has outlived its usefulness now that I’m in more of a position to publish pretty freely at Sports Illustrated, including some things I did in the early days of this blog, and because I launched a new Substack in 2023 that serves as a better place for the sort of personal (and, well, promotional) type of thoughts I’d want to write that wouldn’t fit on SI.com. It’s just a better way to share my work and push it directly to people who want it. I published my first one in July explaining—and this will sound familiar—that I won’t be using it very often. It’ll be more of a mailing list than a newsletter, I think about 2-3x a year. But anyway, I don’t have much use for this old blog anymore.

I don’t plan to delete the old posts, but I will probably take the blog off the main navigation bar. I will still update my monthly PHLNYPR, my beloved stadium map and my writing/video samples.

But this post is mostly a note for anyone who stumbles across the mitchgoldich.com/blog URL and wonders where have all the blogs gone. Now you know why I stopped and where you can find me. You can also find me on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Threads.

I am not going to publicize this blog post anywhere, so it’s possible nobody on earth will ever read it, but if you do … thanks!