I Hate Ranting or, How A Rant Worked

OK, first things first. I hate ranting.

I don’t like to read it. I don’t like to write it. I don’t like to do it. And yet I find myself ranting sometimes. It typically has nothing to do with the subject at hand; rather, it is more a manifestation of my own frustrations and misgivings.

That being said, sometimes it helps. Not in the way you’re thinking. I don’t believe ranting gets results—at least not for me. But the act of simply finding and giving voice to one’s frustrations helps me as a writer put together a hopefully cogent argument or apology, and makes me get the word out, instead of just sitting and stewing.

So it was that, at the urging of a New Jersey-based cricket writer named Peter Della Penna, I put together a post on my efforts to contact cricket officials in the United States to do some work on promoting the Beautiful Game. And so it was that, within an hour, I had two interview subjects contacting me via e-mail, having read that post.

This is basically a long-winded way of saying I will soon be bringing you some posts/interviews about the C. C. Morris Cricket Library and Museum, and also about the preparations of the U.S. Cricket team as they prepare for their ICC T20 World Cup Qualifier.