I lost my job.

Sort of. I decided to go full-time freelance about a month ago, quit the coffeeshop where I had worked at all levels for the past five years, and went all in on the work-from-home life. I did it because I had a good enough agreement with The Athletic and a consistent enough byline there that I could focus on that as my main writing place and continue to look to branch out more.

Then a pandemic hit, sports stopped, and The Athletic froze its freelancer contributions.

Everything I’ve seen and been told is that this is a temporary step. But I don’t know how long it’s going to last. So I’ve created this newsletter, a Daily-ish newsletter where I drop my soccer oddities and also talk about non-soccer things, because that’s the way I am. I gave it the branding of my podcast (follow @DeadBallPod!) because I imagine there’ll be a lot of crossover content.

So, welcome to this, you cool and attractive person who made it this far into the About page. Hopefully this helps you and me at the same time.

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Soccer, and also everything that is not soccer.