Welcome

This post officially kicks off the start of The AL West Blog, This is the 5th blog launched in a network of 6 divisional blogs, as it joins the The AL East Blog, The NL Central Blog, The AL Central Blog, and The NL East Blog as part of the No Bias Network. Our goal is to be your one-stop shop for anything AL West related. Whether you use this site to follow your team or keep an eye on your rivals, we hope you enjoy.

I would like to do a short introduction of all the writers on staff here. We will have one writer representing each team in the division. These writers will do there best to keep the readers up to date on all the current affairs of their individual teams.

The Staff:

A's - Angelo Quaranta
Angelo is a lawyer living and working in Pittsburgh, Pa. He is also a member of the JurRotis Rotisserie league comprised entirely of lawyers. Despite the fact that he begins preparing for his draft in November, Angelo insists he is not obsessed with numbers. "Preoccupied is more accurate," he says. Prior to attending law school, Angelo worked as a newspaperman for many, many years, and then he came to his senses.

Angels - needed
If you are interested in representing the Angels in this blog please contact me at nobiasnetwork@gmail.com

Mariners - Bob Condor
Bob is a freelance writer who covers sports and fitness for national magazines and websites. Based in Seattle, he writes a fitness column for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and occasionally contributes to its sports pages. He is former Sports Editor of the Chicago Tribune and Sunday sports editor at the New York Daily News. Bob is executive editor of the NFL site, KnowHuddle.com, and has authored six books, including "Michael Jordan's 50 Greatest Games" and he contributed work to "The Whole Baseball Catalog." His articles have appeared in Baseball America, Sport, Esquire, Playboy, Life, Parade, Self, Outside and Shape magazines and websites. He lives in the Seattle area.

Rangers - Mark Zeske
I actually covered the Rangers on a regular basis in the early 1980s when I was editor of the Arlington Daily News (including covering the game in which McDowell became the first Ranger to hit for the cycle). I was working for the Dallas Times Herald a couple of years later when Nolan Ryan threw his seven no-hitter and in the next day's paper was an entire page on Ryan's career (through baseball cards) that I wrote. I'm also just a big Ranger fan, and was in the stands with my wife when Kenny Rogers threw his perfect game and was in the outfield nosebleed seats with my seven-year-old son the last time the Rangers were in the playoffs (he's got his driver's license now). I have most recently covered auto racing on sportsillustrated.com