Dec
11

A big RAB thank you

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With the Winter Meetings wrapping up today, I just wanted to take a minute to thank everyone who has stopped by over the last days. On Monday, we set a new RAB record with a hair under 30,000 page views; on Tuesday, we topped that record and hit 34,000; on Wednesday, we blew past Tuesday’s total to end the day with over 42,000 page views. In other words, with Mike and Joe in Vegas covering the meetings and my running the wires in New York, we’ve pulled in over 108,000 page views in three days.

On a similar vein, Rob Neyer penned an interesting piece on his acceptance into the BBWAA. He’s certainly a bit ambivalent about inclusion, and one of his passages strikes a chord:

when I was hired to write for ESPN’s Web site in 1996, nobody told me to respect my elders. So I didn’t. If I thought Tracy Ringolsby was writing foolishly, I said so. If I thought Tom Verducci had crossed the line from intelligent analysis (of which he’s highly capable) into subjective dim-wittedness, I said so. And usually not with any surplus of grace. I believed then (and believe now) that my job, my responsibility, is to entertain and to educate, and that “not ruffling feathers” falls way, way down on the list somewhere.

That gets at the root of what we do. Yes, we’re fans covering our favorite team. But at the same time, we don’t give the Yanks and the papers that cover them a free pass. I cover the stadium issue quasi-fanatically because there’s been an utter lack of skeptical and accurate reporting. Joe takes issue with the New York Post because they more than push that line Neyer mentions. Mike delves into the minors because few others do. We like to hope that we bring something new and unique to the table, and I guess we’re doing something right.

So thank you to the regulars and thank you to the new folks who have stopped by. We’ll be here all winter and into the season as well. Make sure you come back.

Categories : NYC Sports Media

106 Comments»

  1. Jake K. says:

    Thank you guys for the tireless, too often thankless work. Keep it up!

  2. doty25 says:

    YOU GUYS ARE THE BEST IN THE BUSINESS!!!!!!!! ESPECIALLY BECAUSE YOU GUYS ARE FANS, AND NEVER TEND TO BE EXPERTS!

  3. MJ says:

    It’s a phenomenal site. A source of interesting analysis and a nice clearinghouse for Yankee-related info, both original and gleaned from other sources. You’re a daily stop on my internet surf-ride. Love the work you do and I applaud the way you do it. And this is coming from a guy that isn’t a regular commenter over here…

  4. Slugger27 says:

    agree with above posters… yall did a great job covering the meetings

    excellent work, much appreciated

  5. Matt says:

    You guys do a fantastic job; please keep up the great work. Thanks and good luck with the site in the future.

  6. Nady Nation says:

    Thank you guys for allowing me to accomplish a combined 2 hours of work over the last 4 days. My bosses appreciate it greatly.

  7. Bruno says:

    Congrats gentlemen.

  8. Mike in RI says:

    Thanks for all of your hard work the past few days. You guys did an excellent job of covering the Winter Meetings. The constant updates, analysis of moves, and live chats made it feel like I was almost there. Thanks again guys.

  9. jsbrendog says:

    gentlemen. keep on truckin. you are well aware as to how i feel.

  10. You guys are a model that I follow. Fans but objective, honest, rational. Good work.

  11. ceciguante says:

    and a big thanks to all 3 of you guys for keeping us all updated more than we otherwise would be.

    one point, though: since you rightly don’t shrink from criticizing others who offer their opinions on baseball, just remember that when you guys get criticized, too.

    looking forward to more RAB coverage this hot stove season-

  12. Bruno says:

    Can this be used as an open thread?

  13. The Honorable Congressman Mondesi says:

    Great work, as always. RAB 4eva.

  14. UWS says:

    We *heart* RAB.

  15. Ivan says:

    Terrific work guys and thanx for all the cool stuff you guys do.

    And the best part is, you guys are gonna get better and make a dynasty out of this thing and one day we can celebrate a yankee WS with this blog.

    Great Job.

  16. Manimal says:

    Oh man, Marlins are pissed. I just got that old school yankees feeling of buying everyone in sight and no one can do anything about it because we have the money for it. Go for Tex, we have enough money.

  17. Thomas says:

    You guy run a great website keep it. Keep posting for more or less the the intelligent fans!

  18. Julie says:

    You guys have been doing great work from the start, day in and day out. Congratulations on all the traffic!

  19. Manimal says:

    Wow, I just had a really nice conversation with Gerrit Cole about of a bunch of stuff. Sick.

  20. emac2 says:

    Thank you!

    For keeping me from gettng any work done for 2 whole days!

    :)

    Actually – I do have a “bug” question. I don’t run flash so I can go to ESPN without having to manually stop them downloading and playing movies on every page. The problem is that it causes your site to show me your main page for a second or two before taking me to a copy of opne of the ads you run. I have to hit back and stop to get it to stay on the main page.

  21. Matt K says:

    Thank You RAB!!

    How are you gunna get media passes to the games???

  22. Manimal says:

    Wow, 42000 hits and 0 slow down on the site. You guys REALLY upgraded the servers when we were having those Sox games

    • Ben K. says:

      Glad someone noticed!

      • BigYank1 says:

        I don’t know if you guys have seen this:

        ————————–
        ‘Also, big thanks to the guys at River Ave. Blues. Baseball America’s web site wouldn’t load and milb.com wasn’t updating so I followed the draft through their live blog. Kudos to those guys for going to Las Vegas to cover the winter meetings themselves. ‘
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        Direct quote from Chad Jennings over on his blog.

  23. A.D. says:

    Mets got Putz… now if they only had a starting staff

    • Steve H says:

      No no no, it’s all about the bullpen. Who cares about the first 7 innings. JOBA to the Pen 2009!!!

      • jsbrendog says:

        not to mention their second baseman cant run or hit and delgado is probabl oging toplay the whole yr lik he did the first half and their left field platoon of murphy and cant think of other person is unproven (at least murphy is over a full season) and church is injury prone and reyes is a prick and schneider will probably regress too and their starters are a mess with neise who isnt proven and pelfry and maine each coming off injuries and then having to find a 5th starter to go with johan and STILL having to rely on 3 kids (we found how that works)

        but hey, at least they have a closer now.

    • ceciguante says:

      i actually furious about this, i’ve been saying for years that the way to build a bullpen is just to sign 2 closers and plug one into the 8th. effin minaya. i LOVED watching the mets blow games late…

  24. christopher says:

    peavy deal is toast again – ESPN

  25. jsbrendog says:

    i remember when i first started coming here and threads owould have like 30 comments and id be like damn that one’s huge! now they almost all consistently have over a 100. awesome. wish i had a successful blog lol

  26. mike G. says:

    congrats!

    you guys do a great job!

    for what its worth i check the site every day. I got some baseball withdraw going on.

    i’m actually looking forward to the WBC.

  27. [...] meetings were truly an awesome experience, and it seems like everyone enjoyed the coverage. I know Ben already said thanks, but let me thank you again; you guys make the RAB world go [...]

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