Day 5

Fresh Start_5: Thanks Bill
Dear Bill Simmons,
Thank you for being one of the many driving forces to make me want to become a sports journalist. Now as I just said you weren’t the first or only writer to make me want to enter in the business of writing but you were the last. I starting my own podcast before I found yours, but your podcast has been a good model to follow and find my own ways to improve it. I also have tried to start a podcast show strictly about baseball before you (I’m not gloating by the way); but you have done everything you have attempting since leaving ESPN extremely well.
Not to say that you have a little more help because you have been in this business for a long time and have resources that I don’t have. You have the ability to start your own website and have a dam HBO show. You have become a role model of mine and you play a very important role in my up and coming career.
When I was at work the other day; I was asked what I wanted to do for a living and I explained how I wanted to be a writer, and I even shared with the man this blog. He came back some time later and said that I just wanted to be the New York version of Bill Simmons. I then said to him abruptly “No I want to be better!”. Which is nothing against you and how great your career is, it’s just how I am wired. I want to someday work with you on a podcast and I hope this short letter gets to you.
You see I don’t envy my idols; I want to become friends with them. I want to one day be sitting in the ESPY’s and look down the aisle and you, or maybe one day even work for you… we will see. So, here I am saying thank you for what you have done and for being a role model of mine. I owe you a lot (maybe even a steak dinner).
Sincerely,

Joseph Leo



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