As of today, I’m going to do the majority of my blogging for Beyond the Boxscore, which is part of the SBNation blog network. I’m excited about the move for a few reasons:
- There are three other writers over there right now, with the hope of adding one or two more for weekly columns. Not only will the other writers fill in the gaps when I inevitably go dark for a few days, but being part of a group should be more motivation for me to keep things rolling. I especially enjoy talking baseball with RJ, who runs a phenomenal Rays blog.
- The SBNation software is state of the art, and they have a full time tech team working on improvements. For users, that means nested comments, the ability to jump through new comments with simple keystrokes, front-page listings of posts with comments you haven’t read yet, avatars, signatures, and fan-generated side-bar posts. It’s like a blog and a discussion forum in one, put together in an intuitive way. Oh, and you can join any SBNation blog community with a single user-name — almost all MLB, NFL, and NBA teams are covered, with many other blogs for college sports, the NHL, soccer, and golf, and mixed martial arts.
- Beyond the Boxscore currently receives decent traffic, but the potential is there to make it a large, intelligent community. I look forward to helping mold the growth over the next year.
My first post will be up on Monday, and I’ll be sure to link to it. But if you haven’t been to BtB (as I’ll call it going forward) go have a look and maybe sign up for an account. And yes, the limes will be going with me.
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Sky is a baseball fan and racket sport afficianado living in upstate NY. His favorite color is orange and is just about ready to give up on his life-long dream to become the next Magnus ver Magnuson (World's Strongest Man). His favorite baseball teams are the Yankees and Red Sox, proving that there's hope in the Middle East.
September 6th, 2008 at 9:40 pm
Congrats on the new digs. :) BtB’s always been a nice site, but I think you’re right that it probably has more potential than it’s shown. Looking forward to reading your work over there.
-j
September 7th, 2008 at 9:04 am
Thanks, Justin. I always kind of wished there was more discussion around here, like I got on a few threads. But I really think that being part of a blog network, working with other writers, and using the awesome SBNation blogging platform should build a sense of community and bring in more readers. Hope to see you and everyone over there. There should be both large-scale essays and smaller-scale blog entries. And I’m hoping users will start using the fanshots feature to link to outside articles for intelligent conversation, BBTF style.