Four years ago, Daniel over at It's like having my own Card Shop introduced the blogosphere to the Five Minute Post. He'd set a timer on his phone for five minutes and hit publish when the timer was up.
I knew right away that there would need to be some modifications to the rules if I were to come close to completing this task.
1st: Five minutes is not enough. Fifteen is much more realistic, but still a huge challenge.
2nd: Scanning, uploading, and arrangement of any images would not be included in the time.
3rd: The time it takes to research, write, edit, revise, and format any text will be included.
Everyone writes at different paces. Personally... most of my posts take 30 to 120 minutes from start to finish. Heck... the introduction alone has taken me close to 20 minutes to write. Obviously I won't be counting these minutes as part of today's challenge.
Okay... enough chit chat. Timer set. Let's write...
Gavin over at Baseball Card Breakdown sent me a package last week with a few different cards. One of them I plan to write about this Thanksgiving. The other five were customs I'll share in a future post. Which left this insert from the mid 2000's:
2004 Donruss Elite Career Best #CB23 (#'d 0707/1000)
That got me wondering... how does that compare to this season's RBI leaders? Aaron Judge was the first person to drive in 100 runs this season. He accomplished the feat on 8/12/2022... exactly twenty-two years after Giambi did it. The key difference is it only took him 109 games to do it.
By the way... Pete Alonso was the second player to reach the century mark. He did it last Friday in his 120th game.
Okay... I'm already at the 11 minute mark... and I'm guessing it'll take me more than 4 minutes to format the text. So I'll wrap things up here.
Thanks Gavin for the care package. I'll show off the rest of the goodies in future posts.
Happy Tuesday and sayonara!
By the way... I failed to write this post in 15 minutes or less. But I was close. The time above included all of this:
It didn't include the introduction (where I wrote the guidelines) or this brief writeup. Overall... this post took a little under an hour to write. The good news is the next time I attempt this challenge, I can just copy and paste the explanation to this challenge and the guidelines.
And just a heads up... with my hectic schedule, fifteen minute posts are probably going to be more common than not.
