So, today I decided to write about the 2025 Midnight Sun baseball game. You know, that weird event where they play baseball nonstop under the midnight sun in Alaska? Yeah, that one. Woke up thinking it’d be cool to compile quick facts for folks who don’t wanna dig through ten Wikipedia pages.
How It Started
Grabbed my laptop still half-asleep. First step: search old news articles. Typed “Midnight Sun Baseball 2025” into Google – holy cow, so many results! But guess what? Most were just fluff pieces about “ooh, midnight sun!” instead of stats. Got real annoying real fast.
The Research Struggle
Scrolled through like forty links. Found one local Alaskan newspaper with actual box scores, but their site kept crashing. Took screenshots like a maniac every time it loaded. Spilled coffee all over my notes – classic. Decided to cross-check with Reddit threads from 2025. Big mistake. Half those dudes argued about umpire calls instead of sharing dang facts.
Compiling The Mess
Opened a blank doc around lunchtime. Started dumping:
- Game duration (28 freaking innings!?)
- That Canadian pitcher who threw for 11 innings straight
- How they used moose leather for the baseball (weird but true)
Phone buzzed nonstop – ignored three calls from my mom. Sorry, Ma! Prioritized finding sunset/sunrise times in Fairbanks that day. NASA’s site had it buried five clicks deep. Almost rage-quit.
Formatting Hell
Wanted bullet points for quick reading. Pasted everything into WordPress and… boom! Formatting exploded. Bullets turned into hieroglyphics. Cussed loud enough my neighbor knocked to check on me. Spent an hour fighting with spacings until finally just:
Slapped raw HTML tags manually
Like literally typed <ul> and <li> like some 1990s nerd. Felt weirdly powerful though.
Final Push
Double-checked pitcher names at 11 PM. Realized I’d misspelled “Aleksandrs” four different ways. Fixed it while eating cold pizza. Added one last fact about the outfielder who caught a fly ball while swatting mosquitoes – iconic Alaskan moment. Hit publish before midnight. No proofread. YOLO.
Anyway, hope people actually read it instead of just skimming like I do. Might nap for three days now.