Keith Hayes got his love for writing in the 6th grade where he began writing sci-fi stories for classmates and friends, while continuing to write over the years as a personal hobby.
In 1991 after purchasing WebTV, he caught the Internet bug and began writing on various message boards and newsgroups under the pseudonym Mista Sinista. His posts became popular as he covered movie reviews, the New England Patriots, WCW and WWE (formerly WWF) wrestling. Just do a Google search for Mista Sinista or Sinista1 under groups, and you'll discover enough material to read for months.
As his debating talents developed online, he became vocal in his local newspaper, the Enterprise. He began submitting Letters to the Editor, and most of his pieces were printed on a regular basis. He also had similar success with his letters to the early years of Patriots Football Weekly. After generating some buzz and catching the eyes of readers, Keith was contacted to write for wrestling web site Wrestlenutz.com. He was then later contacted to write for a New England Patriots fan website PatriotsFootball.com, which is now known as PatsFans.com.
When covering the Pats, Keith kept his Mista Sinista attitude and reviewed the games with his "tell it like it is" style. The Patriots experience soon took off, and allowed him to meet various players, travel to a Pro Bowl in Hawaii, a Super Bowl in New Orleans, several away games in the Meadowlands, and some great games in Foxboro, where he has been a season ticket holder since 1990.
Today, he covers the New England Patriots for eSports and as a 12th Man correspondent for PatsFans.com. You can read his political and local debates on his hometown site Brockton Forums. But for a real treat, you can also see the twisted side on his moniker web site Sinista1.com, where he has some great spoofs like "Barbie and Ken's True Hollywood Story," and "Celebrity Survivor."
Most recently, Keith has become a co-host on two hit radio shows at WXBR 1460 AM in Brockton (formerly WBET). On Fridays, Keith can be heard during the "On the Mark PI Show," with his host Private Investigator Mark Chauppetta, who has his own reality television show in negotiations, and a role in the upcoming horror film Frightworld where he plays an FBI Agent hunting a serial killer who has killed his wife.
Keith is now following in his host’s footsteps after scoring a part in Walt Disney's upcoming movie "The Game Plan," starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. In the movie, Keith plays a football player on QB Joe Kingman’s (Dwayne's character) Boston Rebels rival team the New York Dukes. Also joining Keith on the show is defense attorney Ken Diesenhof, and Brockton Police Officer Frank "Czman".
On Saturdays, Keith can be heard during "Krashing Into the Bigfield/The Lock Up" from noon to 4 p.m. talking sports with Enterprise writer Kevin Tocci, and aspiring actor Tom Mariano, cousin to "Boston Rob" of "Survivor/Amazing Race" fame. The show also features guests Matt Futrell, Peter Czymbor, Dennis Harris, and is produced by former Indie wrestler Mike Pavia. The South Shore Sports Show is growing, as the first two hours cover sports (professional and local), while the second two hours cover the best talk in professional and Indie wrestling.
Once again, it's that time of the season where I assault you with my annual top 10 list of things to do during the bye week. For those who are unfamiliar with this annual event, this is something I started writing many years ago during the New England Patriots bye week, and it has provided some great laughs.
Some of the things you'll read are personal to me, some are not. Some on the list are new; while some of them move up, move down, or completely off the list.
So without further ado, sit back, pull up a chair, and warm up your funny bone...
10. Vote, Vote and Vote: Here in my city we have a very important and historic election that could give us our first female as Mayor, and/or our first African American as Councilor at Large. We also have plenty of issues up for grabs, but change can't happen unless people come out to vote.
9. Seek out and Find Religion: Head to church, confess all of those sins and impure thoughts you've committed while attending and/or watching football games over the past seven weeks (bye weeks count).
PS: Don't forget to confess the things you did after looking over Marge Simpson's Playboy pictorial... You know who you are.
8. Face Your Fears: Still spooked after seeing "Paranormal Activity?" You can use this time to sit alone in an empty house, and train yourself that every little noise you hear is not a demon that wants to possess you.
7. Hourly Credit Repair: Between the four DVRs in my house, I have run up over 100-plus hours of hard drive space like bad credit. I've finished up this season of "Entourage," and now watching "Naruto."
6. Change of Scenery: Betting on the Red Sox last month has put you so deep in the red with the local bookies, you decide to turn rat and enlist the entire family into the Federal Witness Protection Program.
5. Recover from Chocolate Hangover: Halloween was last Saturday night, and you spent the morning coming down off a sugar high from all of the candy you ate after conning the kids that those Reese's Peanut Butter Cups and Baby Ruths looked suspicious.
4. Git 'R Done: Run out, grab a Nextel phone, some chewin' tobacca', a Coors beer, and practice your best south of the border southern drawl so you can spend the weekend as a NASCAR fan watching drivers tear up Talladega . Remember... It's "Chase for the Cup" time, so try not to disrespect anyone by rooting for someone who is out of the standings. If you're from Boston make sure to root for drivers Greg Biffle and Carl Edwards who are driving for the Roush Fenway team, and jump up in the standings.
3. Tailgate at Home: Go to your kid(s) pee wee playoff game in grease paint, armed with air horns and noisemakers. Break out the grill, cook hamburgers and hot dogs while getting a massive sugar high drinking gallons of Teenie Weenie juices, and talking about the upcoming video games release of "Modern Warfare 2," and how you racked up double XPs during this weekend's Gears of War 2.
2. Cash in Your Frequent Flyer Mileage: Turn in your rewards and spend time with your illegitimate children from east to west. (Note: This one may pertain to some pro football players.)
1. Watch Football: The Pats may not be on TV, but this weekend gives us the New York Giants taking on the Eagles in Philly, The Miami Dolphins in NY against the Jets, and the most awaited match-up of the year as Brett Favre and the Minnesota Vikings head out to Lambeau Field to face the Green Bay Packers, and an Aaron Rogers who will be licking his chops to prove he is the better QB.