Happy birthday to us
Posted by: Peter Abraham - Posted in Misc on Feb 29, 2008 
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Forget to mention this, but the blog turned 2 a few days ago.
Our first post wasn’t much. Since then we’ve had several thousand posts, nearly 400,000 comments and just over 12 million page views.
Every Yankees beat writer (well, nearly everybody) does a blog now. I wasn’t sure if this would work when I started it and now I believe we’ll soon see the day when a newspaper hires somebody purely to travel with and blog about a team.
Meanwhile, the people back at the office are helping out. I just received a spiffy new Sprint air card modem, which means I can use my laptop (and blog) from pretty much anywhere. Thanks also to Journal News and LoHud.com sports editor Susie Arth, who has supported this forum from the start and pushed to make it better.
We’ll be looking to add some features this season. I’m hoping to line up a player or two for a guest post. There will be more Q&A sessions and an increase in podcasts. Sam Borden and I are kicking around some ideas for our own version of Yankees PTI.
If you have any ideas, send them along. The best thing about this blog are the readers. We have a lot of great baseball talk here and your desire to read about the Yankees is what fuels my desire to post. Never did I think so many people would want to know the lineup at 4 p.m. You guys have been great and thanks for spreading the word.
So that’s two years down and hopefully more to come. Thanks for reading. I’ll ask Carl Pavano to send each and every one of you $5. It only seems right.
only five? should be more
congratulations on having the most comprehensive yankee blog ever. even though i feel that you are at odds with your readers sometimes, i’m sure that i can speak for 99% of us in saying that we wouldn’t know what to do without you. you have taken beat reporting to a new level and into the 21st century. i hope your bosses realize what a treasure they have in you and that you are compensated appropriately. so i’d like to be among the first to thank you and applaud your tireless efforts and innovations.
happy bday blog, here’s to endless refreshing
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
So I’ve only seen this blog since August, so I’m way behind some of you guys, but I have loved every minute of it.
And dude, I could SO use $5 right now.
Pete it helps move the day along at work.
Some suggestions, an edit button please!
Love the idea of a guest post!!
i’ve been a lurker, making occasional comments since last May
hey listen all–
if anyone wants tickets to Sat april 5th against the Rays. i have 2 tickets in Tier Box 11
lemme know, Mike
Very cool. Been a pleasure these past years. Thanks for making me that much less productive at work Pete. Keep up the great work!
Are you giving them away.
Many Happy Returns Pete.
As many here have said this is THE PLACE for all you need to know about the best team ever.
Oh and I love the Yankees PTI idea.
Hmmm, you don’t secretly desire a gig in Bristol do you? Ha!
Pete,
I think the more content you can give directly from the players (Q&A, guest blogging, etc) the better.
Seems to me some of the beat guys (in particular the Post) have burned quite a few bridges with the players the last several years.
The more content you can get from players to the fans, so the fans and players realize there are people out there who still want to talk baseball, the better experience it is for everybody.
I really think blogging is becoming the best way for fans to get to know the players. With ticket prices rising, and availability scarce, blogging may be the last place fans can learn about their favorite players.
Its getting tougher and tougher for fans to interact with players. In that regard, blogging may be their last, best chance.
The more you can add content of this nature to the blog, the more page views you will get, IMO.
Additionally, the more the players see you can be trusted, the more they will open up to you and the better chance you will have to beat the competition on breaking news.
JMHO.
Jennifer i wish i could afford to give them away. sadly i can’t. they cost me $29.00.
i have them for sale on stubhub, but i’d just as soon sell them to someone here.
Happy Birthday and congratulations. I have only been posting a few months but I am hooked.
Happy Birthday!!!!!
This blog was my best find of this past offseason. I absolutely love it and the posters here. I’m with Jennifer, an edit button/registration would be nice. Other than that, keep up the good work!!
MikeEff,
You and I were both posting and chatting 12 hours ago also. Maybe we need to get a life.
SJ agree!! Plus look at the Relationship that Phil and Pete have built. And look how Phil is reaching out to the fans, He would get the benefit of the doubt before other players who are seen as ‘cold’ towards fans.
Mike I was only joking.
And Pete I think that Carl should give every blogger 1 grand. That might be fair.
I disagree, the best thing about this blog is you Pete. Any monkey can blog, but you give us all kinds of info we would never hear about otherwise. I’ll buy you a coke with my Pavano-bucks at my first homegame this year.
Happy birthday to your blog Pete. And Pavano probably shouldn’t try to do anything at this point or he’ll just hurt himself more. I’m looking forward to him rehabbing and pitching for us down the stretch! (sarcasm)
Yanks Rule: you have a point there. i did take a few hours off to do some photo editing, eat and watch the dodger/braves game i recorded on ESPN.
Jenn: i know…
Happy Birthday Lohud!
I love this place, I think I probably check it more then any other website out there.
MikeEFF
29$ huh? Will you take 40$ for the pair?
Two years old, eh? Does that means we should we be on guard for the sophomore jinx?
(If I had a nickel for every time the Scooter talked about the sophomore jinx…)
Congratulations Pete. If it weren’t for you I would never have (virtually) met all the great folks and talked so much baseball with so many great fans. And the “100 proof” baseball coverage you provide is second to none. For non-insiders like me, it really adds a whole new dimension to the baseball experience.
Muchas gracias, amigo.
Pete,
Congratulations on your 2 year milestone. You have truly broken ground in the media and have granted the fans a new way to celebrate their team. You and the supporting staff at the Journal News should be commended (and hopefully compensated!) for being forward thinking and creating something new.
Now, just don’t go and turn into a Rock Star on us!
MikeEff,
Just kidding man, I wrote a paper for grade school and took mrs yanksrule to a nice sushi dinner.
But yeah this site has become a pleasant habit.
make that grad school, jeez where is an edit button when you need one.
Does anyone know if I can watch or listen to tomorrows game.
congrats on all the success, Pete.
this blog is a great service to yankee fans.
my only suggestion would be to have registration. might discourage some of the trolls.
keep up the good work.
Happy 2nd Birthday !!! We may not always agree on sports ..but ..we all agree that this is a terrific blog.
Thanks Pete …keep on keeping on …
I’m off to Cooperstown tomorrow with a bus load of Yankee and Met fans ..this should be VERY INTERESTING …(hoping the weather cooperates too …)
Go Yankees 2008 !!!!
Marc, i’m not looking to make any money on the tickets, but i’m not looking to lose money either. sorry.
i figured you were kidding, but yeah it can get addictive here. today was a particularly nice experience here live blogging while we listened to the game together.
jennifer:
i think that tomorrow’s game will be on MLB.TV. i guess i’m gonna buy that tomorrow.
Pete: thank you. For committing much time/work/effort, into this blog.
When people say this is the best Yankee blog out there (and I’m one of them)
They aren’t lying.
Congratulations on two years, Pete!
MikeEFF,
I was joking about that. I really don’t care to see a Rays game. But if you’re not looking to make money and not lose any, I think that6 was a fair offer.
THANK U
Marc, how is it a fair offer. He paid 58 for two tickets and you offered 40.
Marc- no prob.
As a Mets fan, yet still loyal reader, am I still entitled to my $5??
Andrew, I’d have to say now. You have to be tortured Yankee fan, by that bum Carl.
Hey Pete, I have a suggestion, get a q&a with Carl.
MikeEff: usually I jump at chances like that, but that’s the day of my sister’s stupid birthday dinner
Jennifer,
I only saw 29 as the posted price.
sorry if my teasing bothers you.
Andrea, what is with people, don’t they release they must plan everything around the yankees!!
Seriously, I am blowing off a family gathering to travel down to Batlimore. I really don’t care.
A Q+A with Carl Pavano? How can that possibly end well??
(I’d still love to see it, just for the lolz)
Jennifer: I almost blew off my parents’ anniversary dinner to travel to Baltimore last season. But the Baltimore trip ended up getting canceled.
andrea: i know how that goes. i live down south now after living 26 years in nyc.
anyway, i got a holiday ticket pack so i could get to see 2 sox games ( july 4th and aug 26th) the other five games i’m not sure which ones i’ll make it up for.
i’m going to try to make it up to see the tigers on april 29th. if i can’t i’ll try to sell those.
Pete
Bleeding Pinstripes was the first blog I read everyday.
Now I have over 27 in my bookmarks.
I spend the majority of my time here because you update three or more times a day.
Congratulations on a great two years.
I am looking forward to the technical advances arriving for next season.
And thank you and your team for many pleasurable hours.
I’ll donate my Pavano fiver to you to upgrade audio equip.
jennifer: Dang, and I thought I was bad, I plan on skipping class on opening day to watch the game on TV…oops…
(Also, good thing I have only one class on Mondays…)
seriously a Q and A with Pavano would be a total hoot if pete could trick him into falling for it…
Jennifer,
The hard part for me this year is being in school four nights a week. I got very used to being tuned to Yes @ 7:05 and logged on to Lohud for the entertaining and sometimes hilarious in game comments from the regulars here. For those of you who haven’t experienced it wait until the season starts and give it a look. I don’t think you will be disappointed.
Dale D:
Bleeding Pinstripes is indeed excellent. Geoff is a great writer and i like his highly origianal and unapologetic take on things.
another great yankee blog is Heartland Pinstripes:
http://heartlandpinstripes.mlblogs.com/
Thanks, Pete. You run the best Yankee blog around. Keep up the good work.
yanksrule: Remember that game last year against the Angels, when Pete messed up on the line up and Andy Pettitte was playing first base and no one was at third?
I had some great laughs that night.
I cant believe its been two year. I remember reading the blog since day one. I was sitting my house at college at the greatest school in the land googling where to find some up to date news on my Yanks. I
ve gone through about 10 different user names but it all remains the same. Even though I dont agree with ya sometimes, I love ya Pete and think you do a fantastic job.
Rebecca,
Yes and nearly everyone gave him grief the whole night.
BTW, I think you and I started here approximately the same time. I only wish I had found it sooner.
Thanks for the two yrs pete – its been great having this blog as a resource.
yanksrule: Might’ve been. I know I was here before Phil Rizzuto died, though that game thread that night was one of the first that I posted regularly in. I didn’t read the game thread when the Yankees scored 8 runs in the bottom of the second to match Chicago, but I did for that series against Baltimore, so it’s somewhere in there, and I’m WAY too lazy to look!
MikeEff – Shelley at First
heartland is on my list too.
any other you recommend?
can’t wait till the games start.
I hope to be knowledgeable enough to intelligently comment on Bleeding Pinstripes this season.
At the baseball writers’ dinner in January, as Cashman told a colleague that Hughes would not be traded, he noticed Chamberlain eavesdropping.
“I turned to him and said, ‘You’re not going anywhere, either, big boy,’ †Cashman said. “I could see he had the elephant ears going.â€
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03.....ref=slogin
Dale: just jump right in on commenting at Bleeding Pinstripes. there are a few guys there with sharp tongues, but they reserve those for the few masochistic sox fans who ‘drop in”
this is by far the best place for up to the minute news on everything yankee though.
jason is the name of the guy who writes Heartland. a great guy…very smart.
we also have open threads during certain games so we blog while we watch…it’s a lot of fun over there
How about doing a Q&A with Pavano? Let everyone here hit him around like a pinata
great quote from a really well done article. loved the picture of Yogi too! thanks jennifer
No, I’m Patrick Bateman.
Jenn–That is an AWESOME quote.
Kill Schill–Patrick Bateman scares the crap out of me. Crazy bastard.
Congrats on two great years, Pete – this blog has gotten bigger and better in astounding ways! I’ve been reading since ’06 and somehow, my refresh button has yet to give out… I’m sure it’s only a matter of time! Here’s to another addictive season
(Now I guess we can all be on the lookout for Pavano getting DL-worthy-papercuts from passing out those $5 bills…)
Happy Birthday Pete. This is what hard work does for you.
Congrats and kudos, Peter. Groundbreaking, consistently excellent stuff.
Congrats Pete and great work as always.
The main problem with this blog, is that I come here so much during the week that I end up having to do work at home on the weekends.
Congrats on two years Pete and THANK YOU.
Dunno if you get to reading all the comments but thanks for the forum to talk about the yankees with fellow fans and keep up the good work. I may not buy the paper but i defenitely check this blog at least twice a day.
Happy Birthday Blog!
Thanks for all you do Mr. Abraham
What’s the deal with this Patrick Bateman, can somebody let me in on it?
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BLOG!
Buddy: “There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but no real [him].”
Ditto what “MikeEff – Shelley at First” said.
Thanks Andrea!
MikeEff-
Pretty cool of you to sell your tix at face value, like how you were low balled by that one guy. What a joke.
77RJRWsp,MikeEff
there is another bleeding pinstripes something or other blog out there that’s a good read. The optimism is contagious.
Does anyone know if gameday works for Spring Training games?
I like Purist Bleeds Pinstripes myself, but, honestly, it’d probably be a bad sign if I didn’t…
Someone send in the edit to Wiki. Apparently Pete created the sports blog.
Pete should have a Wikipedia page.
Pete,
Although the other beat writers may have started their own blogs as well, none can hold a “candle” to yours!!!
Congrats!
Andrea- i think you win the prize for question of the day.
i have no idea of the answer though…my guess is no, they don’t. ( i have a 50-50 shot, right? )
andrea: i just looked on the MLB homepage where they have the results and at the bottom there was the tiny gameday logo…so it looks like they might. i guess we’ll find out tomorrow . well later today, that is
MikeEff: My friend is a Braves fan and wants to gameday the Braves game tomorrow. She has a 1 year old son, so she doesn’t really get to watch TV anyway, so it’s not even a big deal to gameday games. It got me thinking that I wasn’t sure if it was even possible.
Good idea with Pavano giving everyone $5.
Now a GREAT idea would be if Klumzy Karl sponsored that free beer night I wasn’t letting go of last year. He could buy everyone in the stadium a couple beers at one game day, he’d still come out head by about $9.5 million on the season. And he’d have less people resenting him.
If he does it for a whole week, Even I would be asking for him to get an extension!
Talk to him, Pete … see what he says. It’s not like you need to worry about burning a bridge with him in th elong run, right?
Here’s the link for the Phillies radio broadcasts. Game is on their schedule for tomorrow and should be streaming live.
http://thebigtalker1210.com/
I’m a relatively new reader, but thanks Pete, cause this is the only place I come for Yankees news.
I started following this blog at the beginning of last season. Back then, it was me and a few die-hards insisting the Yankees would balance out over the second half and make the playoffs, maybe even win the division. Pete didn’t quite have faith, but he was one of the only beat writers who didn’t completely write them off in May. Back then, the blog was still mostly centered around Journal News readers in Westchester and the northern suburbs (which I miss to a degree; since April everything online has taken off to a place it’s never been before, so that now it’s tough to have a real conversation on here, and forget about ESPN’s forums). Over the season, it grew across the tri-state, the nation and eventually the world, so that we’ve had posts on here from Taiwan. The blog truly is a pleasure, even if Pete is inexcusably a Pats fan and even if I’ve often disagreed with him on many things. The devotion to it over the offseason has been phenomenal. Pete, I don’t know if you realize it, but you’ve probably eclipsed everyone at the Post, the Times, WFAN and everywhere else as the most well-known beat writer for the Yankees. I don’t even remember Buster Olney being this popular, and this blog has been the driving force. Who would have ever thought the Journal News beat writer would be a bigger deal than Newsday’s or the Star-Ledger, let alone the big three sports sections (Times, Post, and Daily News)? Your a Westchester institution Pete and you’ve made the whole county proud (even though I’m not sure if you even live here).
Carl Pavano owes us $5 dollars but maybe Pettitte can help us and get some prescriptions for some HGH….wait I forgot he didn’t have any.
Congrats, Pete!
McLovin: normally i don’t feed the trolls but you are particularly reprehensible and a moron to boot. this post is to celebrate Pete’s anniversary, not your petty grudge. so shut it.
Happy Birthday!!
Congrats on 2 amazing years…hope many many more follow!!
Last to post? WooHoo!
Bon Anniversaire!
I’m really looking forward to framing my carl pavano check
Congrats on the blog and the great idea about a Pavano donation to all of us.
How about asking for some money from Kei Igawa as well!
Happy Birthday!!!!!
and I’d definitely take 5 bucks!
Congratulations and may you blog another fifty years. I never even really knew what the hell a blog was (or cared) til I discovered yours. It’s like nothing else I’ve seen for news, insider info, rumors, and it’s very addicting. Excellent stuff, excellent writing. I say Pavano gives all the fivers to you. Okay, at least take mine.
congrats on the anniversary pete!
my only question is what is this blog gonna do without carl pavano to kick around next season?
oh that’s right igawa will still be under contract…
happy birthday blog! in other news….tell hank to shut his yap. did he notice the correlation somewhere during the 90′s that when the owner shut his mouth the team began to win?
Congratulations Peter and continued success for a blog to be envied. Keeping it simple has attracted knowledgeable fans for the most part which is all that can be asked.
A good credible link to the real baseball world is what fans want and need.
Congratulations, Pete, and Happy Anniversary!
I started reading this blog in November of 2006. Hungry for off-season updates on the Yankees, I started looking for information and tried a few places before finally clicking a link from Mark Feinsand’s place, and here I’ve remained since.
The thing that made me keep returning in the beginning, and what sets this blog apart from so many others, is the multiple updates per day. It’s never stale! And now I keep coming back because of the community that has been established here.
There is such a mix of people who contribute here on a daily basis. People with “inside” knowledge (or as close to it as non-professional baseball people can have), legal expertise, endless optimism, statistical savvy, and great senses of humor occupy this cyberspace. Many of you have joked that it’s become an addiction, and I concur. Even on days I don’t have the time to join in the discussion, I make time to read Pete’s post and scan the comments.
Pete, you’re a Pioneer! I’m glad you’re such a workaholic!
P.S. I also love the way, on slow news days, almost any topic goes – and Pete, you set the tone for that with your Ipod play lists and your love of Bruce.
This blog is super terrifico. Thanks to work I don’t get to comment as much as I used to, but I enjoy coming on here and getting my Yankees news fix. Thanks a lot, Pete!!
Congrats!
I love this Blog. I first heard about in early last season, when Pete was being interviewed on YES during a pregame show. Ever since then, i come here multiple times a day (even in the offseason). I very rarely comment on anything, but i just wanted to say this blog is awesome and keep up the great work.
Congrats, good work on the blog. Tell Pavano to keep his 5, I don’t want him to get a paper cut handling the money.
Pete…
I’ll send my $5 Pavano Money to you. Or maybe $4 to you and $1 to the guy who gave the URL to listen to the SFU game on Friday.
This is really kewl.
- m
Pete. Compare your picture from 2 years ago with the one from today. Please take care of yourself, buddy. No joke.
Congrats Pete! Many more years of bloggong.
Yea, meant to say “blogging”
Congratulations Pete. This blog is great!
Pete,
keep up the great job! I found this blog midway thru last season and the insight into my favorite team has been second to none! love the occassional springsteen references too!
Hey Pete,
Guess what.. i can access the blog from home again.. Yeah!!!!
I was never a big fan of blogs overall, until i started reader yours. now your blog is probably the no. 1 website i visit, and even compared to other sports writers’ blogs, i still prefer yours.
One thing to note, the thing that makes your blog so appealing in my opinion is the constant and consistent updates. If something is happening with the team, you post it in a timely manner and that is what makes it so appealing. Please don’t lose that aspect.
as far as turning blogging into a revenue model for newspapers; i never read or even heard of lohud before i started reading your blog, and now i’ve found myself reading sports articles and even checking out other lohud blogs online. there definitely is a correlation between people viewing your blog and increased viewership/exposure for the paper. it shouldnt be to hard to quantify this financially for a paper.
Happy birthday Blog. Best blog on the Yankees Pete (maybe even on baseball), bar none.
Congratulations — I hope to see it turn 20.
2 years…they grow up so fast. Congrats Pete. Your blog is great. And if the paper wants a full-time blogger, put in good word for me.
Congrats Pete.
I think this is by far the best Yankee blog on the web!
Hopefully many more years to come for you.
Keep blogging.
Heres my blog to check out: http://nyyrollcall.blogspot.com/
Happy Birthday to the best Yankees blog around!
Congratulations! It really is a great blog. Thanks for sharing your access with us.
Happy Birthday!! Keep it going Pete.; My vote is for you if the Yankees need a blog guy, the idea sounds good to me.You really put in that extra effort for us and that is much loved.
Trisha says -
“You should be rooting for a Yankee win and not a Pavano failure.”
But in your heart, don’t you want Brett Gardner to fail!
:@