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Introducing the RAB Daily Digest – Sign Up Today

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A couple of weeks ago we asked you for some feedback regarding the preferred delivery time for a RAB Daily Digest email. Now it’s time to actually start sending out that daily email.

A near majority of you prefer email delivery first thing in the morning, so you can expect this email to hit your inboxes at 6 a.m. Eastern, Monday through Friday. If this proves popular enough, and people want different delivery options (an evening regurgitation of the day’s posts, a Sunday edition, etc.), we’ll consider expansion. But for now, we’re sticking with the one daily email, first thing, five days a week.

What will you get in this daily emaiL?

  • What you missed on RAB – in case you didn’t read the previous day’s posts
  • News and intriguing tidbits from around the league, with commentary
  • One daily mailbag question: from subscribers, for subscribers
  • When we have the info available, a preview of what’s on tap for RAB today

As with any project, this will start rough and adapt as we go. We’ll respond to your thoughts and recommendations and hopefully create a neat new entity for RAB.

So why not give us a shot and sign up? Worst case, you click that Unsubscribe link and go about your day. Best case, we can talk about the Yankees in perhaps a different way.



A quick two questions about a RAB daily email digest

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In the next week or so we plan to redo our subscribe by email option. We have about 1,500 subscribers on the current list, which is powered by Feedburner and is frankly a mess. We plan to make this something that even daily visitors will want to receive.

If you have a moment, can you please answer these two questions? It’ll take just a second, and it will allow us to create a daily email that doesn’t suck.

SI Yanks holding All-Time Greats Card Set giveaway, fireworks night on Friday

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Our friends with the Staten Island Yankees are giving away an All-Time Greats Card Set to the first 2,500 fans who attend tomorrow night’s game (7pm ET) against the Tri-City ValleyCats (Astros). The set includes Tyler Austin, Robinson Cano, Elvis Corporan, and Eduardo Nunez. There will also be post-game fireworks, which are always fun. Other upcoming events include:

  • Saturday, Aug. 16th: Everyday Heroes Jersey Series- Breast Health Awareness Night (free pink jerseys to the first 2,500 fans)
  • Sunday, Aug. 17th: Everyday Heroes Jersey Series- Military Appreciation Night (free camo jerseys to the first 2,500 fans)
  • Wednesday, Aug. 20th: Jewish Heritage Night
  • Monday, Aug. 25th: Game Show/Cash Giveaway Night
  • Tuesday, Aug. 26th: Italian Heritage Night
  • Monday, Sept. 1st: Pregnant Ladies Night (Yankees ice cream bowls for the first 2,500 fans plus free ice cream for pregnant women)

You can purchase tickets right here if you want to attend Friday’s game. I’ve never been to Richmond County Ballpark in Staten Island but I’ve heard it’s gorgeous. Plus the weather is supposed to be great, so head out to the park tomorrow and support the Baby Bombers.

Reintroducing the RAB Shop

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RAB Shop

You buy your share of Yankees gear throughout the year, right? I’m guessing that most of you reading this don’t go to Modell’s or Dick’s or Sports Authority. There are so many places to buy online that it rarely makes sense to trek all the way to the store to make a purchase. With good prices and fast shipping, shopping online makes far more sense.

RAB is getting in on that action. We’ve set up relationship with three major MLB gear outlets. So when you buy your gear, you can help support the site.

You can check out what we currently have going at the RAB Shop. It’s limited right now, since I just started loading in products. Before long it will allow you to sort by what you’re looking for: Jerseys (home, road, replica, authentic), t-shirts, caps, and other gear.

Here’s the deal for the moment. If you plan to buy some Yankees gear and want to help support the site, drop me a line, joe at riveraveblues dot com. Let me know what you plan to buy, and I’ll create an affiliate link for it and add it to the Shop. I’ll also email you back the URL. You don’t have to go through this trouble, of course, but we appreciate any effort.

Alternatively, you can just click on these links to make any purchases at the following stores:

MLB Shop
Fanatics
Amazon

Thank you again for all of your support.

Site Registration Update: Disqus

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As you can see, we now are using Disqus to handle our comments. Why the quick change?  Because from a technology standpoint we really needed something with low overhead and easy administration. Old comments should be back within the next day or so. As I mentioned previously, please act responsibly and enjoy the discussion. Thanks, Yankees Only.

Update: Here is the Disqus privacy policy, for your information.

Site Note: Commenting now requires registration

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Because of a recent influx of commenters and the continued disregard of our Commenting Guidelines, RAB now requires users to register in order to comment. Go here to register. Pick a user name, enter a valid email address, and a verification email will be sent to you with your temporary password. You can pick your own password after that. The verification email may not arrive right away. Make sure to check your spam folder. We will never share your email address with anyone.

We kept our comments open and free of registration for years and years because we wanted to make it easy for readers to contribute to the conversation and be part of the RAB community, but the comment threads simply became too out of hand and difficult to moderate, so requiring registration became a necessary step. As always, thank you for reading and making RAB part of your day. We hope you register and continue to contribute to the site and the community. As always, you can contact us through the Submit A Tip box in the sidebar.