User:GhostRiver

Who am I and what do I do?
In a word? Tired.

In a few more words? I am a professional tabletop role-playing game master who has a few obsessive interests that can be easily channeled into writing overlong biographies on my favorite and least favorite athletes. You may know me from my penchant for writing on some of the, uh, more colorful characters that Major League Baseball and the National Hockey League have to offer. People like Trevor Bauer, Brad Marchand, Tom Wilson, that whole rogues gallery. Another focus of mine is on athletes, both human and animal, who die during their playing careers, like Tyler Skaggs, Colby Cave, and Medina Spirit.

I am trying to branch out from my comfort zone a little bit and hope that gets reflected in some of my contributions going forward. I am also a fairly prolific GA reviewer, particularly with regards to sports and history (if you have a sports history article, whoa mama!) but I am also interested in learning new things and will pick up anything that seems quirky.

Articles created (46)

 * Dan Campbell
 * Steven Lorentz
 * Indochinese shrew
 * Promops davisoni
 * Phu Hoc shrew
 * Bururi forest shrew
 * Emma Toft
 * "Alternative Ulster"
 * Robyn Smith
 * Dance Gavin Dance discography
 * Circa Survive discography
 * Avril Lavigne replacement conspiracy theory
 * "Shots Fired" (from redirect)
 * Uirne
 * Bran and Sceólang
 * Pop time
 * Tanner Laczynski
 * Wade Allison
 * ''Jackson Cates
 * ATW''
 * Nothing as the Ideal
 * Egor Zamula
 * Jane Margueretta Hoey
 * Stoner Winslett
 * Ulysses S. Grant Monument
 * Eric Petersen
 * 2021 pitch doctoring controversy
 * Noah Miller
 * "This Land"
 * Max Willman
 * Ernest Lee Johnson
 * 2021 Major League Baseball lockout (to mainspace)
 * Declan Chisholm
 * Michael McNiven
 * Isaac Ratcliffe
 * Emma Söderberg
 * Zack Hayes
 * "Lick" (from redirect)
 * Jeff Malott
 * Hayden Hodgson
 * Jordan Harris (ice hockey)
 * Carson Meyer
 * Mikey Eyssimont
 * Chloe Primerano
 * Bored & Hungry
 * Holy Fawn

Did you know? (26)

 * ... that in 1973, jockey Robyn Smith won a race while riding a horse named after her?
 * ... that The Ghost Inside's self-titled 2020 album was their first release since a deadly tour bus crash in 2015?
 * ... that the BoJack Horseman episode "The View from Halfway Down" received its title because series creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg needed an episode title starting with the letter "V"?
 * ... that Will Arnett is the only voice actor to appear in the BoJack Horseman episode "Free Churro"?
 * ... that Carter Hart is the youngest goaltender in Philadelphia Flyers history to record a shutout, doing so at the age of 21 years and 57 days?
 * ... that the Frightened Rabbit album Painting of a Panic Attack was written mostly over email?
 * ... that hockey player Kevin Hayes came within two hours of needing his leg amputated due to compartment syndrome?
 * ... that the combined no-hitter at the Los Angeles Angels' memorial game for Tyler Skaggs was the first combined no-hitter in California since the day Skaggs was born?
 * ... that Brandon Kintzler married his wife at a drive-through chapel in Las Vegas?
 * ... that Aaron Nola is the first Philadelphia Phillies pitcher since 1989 to make his major league debut the year after he was drafted?
 * ... that Ivan Provorov moved to Pennsylvania from Russia at the age of 13 to play ice hockey?
 * ... that Barack Obama was once gifted a baseball glove belonging to Tampa Bay Rays pitcher Matt Moore?
 * ... that at the time of its dedication, the Ulysses S. Grant Monument in Chicago was the largest statue ever cast in bronze in the United States?
 * ... that Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Zack Wheeler had to have fingernail surgery in 2020 due to an injury sustained from putting on a pair of jeans?
 * ... that Didi Gregorius tweets after every game his baseball team wins, and has dedicated emojis for his teammates?
 * ... that James van Riemsdyk once scored a goal for the Philadelphia Flyers on a puck that bounced off of his face and into the net?
 * ... that Major League Baseball set a single-day record with $1.4 billion in new player contracts the day before the 2021 lockout was set to begin?
 * ... that ice hockey player Trent Frederic was coached by former professional athletes in three of his childhood sports?
 * ... that Cody Bellinger made a motion capture appearance in Assassin's Creed Valhalla as the Viking Otta Sluggasson, with Bellinger's own baseball bat serving as Sluggasson's weapon?
 * ... that a pornographic video service once offered NFL quarterback Gardner Minshew a one-million-dollar endorsement deal based on his habit of exercising in nothing but a jockstrap?
 * ... that when a reporter asked for updates on Jayson Werth wrist injury, his manager at the time responded "Who?"
 * ... that in 2016, Luke Kunin became the first sophomore captain of the Wisconsin Badgers men's ice hockey team since 1975?
 * ... that Brandon Tanev said he saw a ghost while his head shot was being taken for the Pittsburgh Penguins?
 * ... that Jason Robertson is only the second Filipino American to play in the National Hockey League?
 * ... that Jeff Malott scored his first three goals for Cornell University on the same day?
 * ... that Nick Schmaltz older brother and younger sister would team up against him when they played basement hockey as children?

Good articles (85)

 * "The View from Halfway Down"
 * "Free Churro"
 * "Uncomfortable"
 * Carter Hart
 * A Black Mile to the Surface
 * Tyler Skaggs
 * Painting of a Panic Attack
 * Kevin Hayes
 * Aaron Nola
 * Brandon Kintzler
 * Connor Brogdon
 * Ivan Provorov
 * Anthony Stolarz
 * Sam Coonrod
 * Colby Cave
 * Matt Moore
 * Matt Joyce
 * Zack Wheeler
 * David Hale
 * Nicolas Aubé-Kubel
 * Tony DeAngelo
 * Roman Quinn
 * Travis Jankowski
 * Archie Bradley
 * Brad Miller
 * Vince Velasquez
 * J. T. Realmuto
 * Chase Anderson
 * Ian Kennedy
 * Jarrod Saltalamacchia
 * Alec Bohm
 * Spencer Howard
 * Sean Couturier
 * Austin Nola
 * Trevor Bauer
 * Ranger Suárez
 * Odúbel Herrera
 * Shayne Gostisbehere
 * Scott Kingery
 * Didi Gregorius
 * James van Riemsdyk
 * Tom Wilson
 * Morgan Frost
 * Travis Konecny
 * Ronald Torreyes
 * Trent Frederic
 * Columbus nightclub shooting
 * Brad Marchand
 * Cody Bellinger
 * Luke Kunin
 * Gardner Minshew
 * Jayson Werth
 * New York Yankees appearance policy
 * Brandon Tanev
 * Bowen Byram
 * Brendan Lemieux
 * K'Andre Miller
 * Jonathan Lucroy
 * Cliff Lee
 * Inauguration of Chester A. Arthur
 * Arthur Guinness
 * Tyler Stephenson
 * Jason Robertson
 * Florence Merriam Bailey
 * J. T. Compher
 * Beheading game
 * Brigid's cross
 * Robin Lehner
 * Noah Syndergaard
 * Dansby Swanson
 * Alex DeBrincat
 * Tyrese Maxey
 * Corrupted Blood incident
 * Jeremy Swayman
 * J. D. Hammer
 * Brad Hand
 * Connor McDavid
 * Spencer Knight
 * Clayton Keller
 * Dylan Cozens
 * Hunter Greene
 * Brandon Carlo
 * June 2020 Pennsylvania–New Jersey derecho
 * Hot Coffee (minigame)
 * Jamie Drysdale

Featured articles (1)

 * Tyler Skaggs