Talking business, baseball and networking
Posted by: Peter Abraham - Posted in Misc on Jul 28, 2009 
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Maury Brown from The Business of Baseball Blog asked a bunch of people in the media along with some bloggers their impressions of how social networking has impacted what they do.
If you’re interested in that sort of thing, there are a lot of good opinions and points.
I was asked to participate along with estimable folks like Will Carroll (who just Twittered 17 times as you read this), Ken Davidoff, Tim Dierkes, Jon Heyman, Joe Pawlikowski, Dave Pinto and Joel Sherman,
To me, it really just comes down to this: The more places a baseball fan has to get information and communicate about about the sport with other people, the better it is for everybody. Baseball is by far the most social of all sports and has the greatest influence on the lives of fans because it is played every single day and we get to know the most about the players.
As a media person, you have to be foolish not to tap into that passion and find a way to make it work for you.
Oh, and please support the strip clubs who buy advertising space here. Thanks. The girls just need a few dollars so they can go back to school.
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Good news soon for those of you asking about a mobile version of this blog.
Yes, mobile LoHud!
pete, where’s my volume control on those audio clips!
LOL Pete-
We’ll give ‘em support – a dollar at a time
I have been waiting for a mobile version just like a lot of people on here, so it’s good news that we might get one soon. However, not sure how many out there are aware of this, I kind of stumbled upon this work around. But once I go to the internet on my LG Dare, if I use the default search browser on the home page (Bing) to search for a site, it automatically converts it into a more usable version for mobile phones. Once I found out about it I searched some of my favorites, including this site, on the search engine and it has made it much easier to view content on my phone instead of having to wait for the full version to load. Just an FYI.
Great comment about the ‘school girls’ Pete.
your blog also generates spyware,malware, and strip club ads.
I’m telling ya, if I lived in the area, I’d definitely call Friedrich’s.
Pete,
I’m such a dinosaur when it comes to this stuff, so kudos for you to embracing the new technology and fads.
That’s why I like coming here for my one-stop shop for Yankee news. Anything that’s relevant (or not) is posted. Rumors and breaking news shows up within minutes in the comments sections. Why Twitter, when I can read the good ones here?
Thanks for keeping the blog fluid and letting it grow organically. Congratulations for shaping The LoHud Yankees Blog into the best blog on the net. Seriously, the best.
Pete, can’t wait to hear about the mobile update for the blog. I have a blackberry curve and it can never load the blog.
Glad to hear about the mobile blog. Can’t wait to take you everywhere, Pete.
Maury really does great work for those interested in sports business and baseball from the business side of things should read his blog regularly he does some great pieces and you learn a lot from reading it. They have had great coverage on the Cubs Sale (or lack thereof) as well as some of the other business/money related issues in the sport.
They also cover the growing and large PED problem down in the Dominican and Venezualan leages quite well.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
That was hilarious.
Thanks for the laugh.
great news about the mobile version-thanks pete
Oh, and please support the strip clubs who buy advertising space here. Thanks. The girls just need a few dollars so they can go back to school.
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Pete made a funny
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.c.....ref=sihpT1
Interesting stuff. Not the Yankees/Washburn stuff. Check out the Yankees/Halladay stuff. lol. I think that AL scout reads the LHYB.
It was at least 20, Pete!
“I was not implying that Buchholz had no value or couldn’t be a solid ML starter one day, but that a prospect’s ceiling tends to drop quite a bit when he’s 25 as opposed to 23″
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charleston chew,
technically Buchholz is 24. Of course you’d rather have Hughes or anyone who is 23 vs 25 but there are way too many examples of guys who developed at or after 25 to even list.
I think perceptions are changing because of how young Hughes and Joba are but for every pitcher who does well at 23, there are more that dont “figure it out” until 25 or later.
Half of those Will Carroll tweets were addressed to me.
(Re-post)
I believe the RSox will make a play for someone and it could be Toronto for Halladay & Rios & Rolen. The only way I can see them doing it is to involve another team as well like I said yesterday for the Pirates 2B & SS.
Toronto gives up Halladay/RIOS/Rolen (Moves Hill to 3B) & gets Pedoria/Bucholtz/Lowrie/Ellsbury/Bard.
Boston then has to get Sanchez & Wilson from Pirates for ???.
“(Re-post)
I believe the RSox will make a play for someone and it could be Toronto for Halladay & Rios & Rolen. The only way I can see them doing it is to involve another team as well like I said yesterday for the Pirates 2B & SS.
Toronto gives up Halladay/RIOS/Rolen (Moves Hill to 3B) & gets Pedoria/Bucholtz/Lowrie/Ellsbury/Bard.
Boston then has to get Sanchez & Wilson from Pirates for ???.”
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I can’t fathom the Sox giving up Pedroia.
That trade seems far to complicated to get done anyway.
Did Pete’s post about the mobile version get cut off?
Let’s assume that the Sox can’t get Adrian Gonzalez. Halladay will be tough unless they take on an OF imo.
Who’s left? V-mart & Cliff Lee? Dodgers are hot and heavy for that package as well. And the Phillies are looking at Cliff Lee as a fall-back.
Unless the Sox step right up to the plate and give up their top prospects, I don’t see a mega-deal happening.
I’m surprised Pete made the very bold comment that we could win 100 games.
I’m at the point of every streak where it’s gone on long enough that I get nervous and wonder when the good times are going to end-and they will. They have to, unfortunately. Hopefully not before the Red Sox series.
Montero is 1-2 today with a strikeout and an RBI double.
“Unless the Sox step right up to the plate and give up their top prospects, I don’t see a mega-deal happening.”
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I agree though the word on the street is still that they plan/hope to make a huge deal for an “impact” player.
We’ll see…
Well, until the Yankees lose 62 games, it is indeed possible that the Yankees could win 100 games.
Whether or not this is realistic is, of course, another story.
“One AL scout said he’d offer Chamberlain, but not Hughes. “I think Hughes is going to be good, but Joba I wonder about. He hasn’t learned his lesson from showboating yet. In fact, he’s gotten worse. He’s extremely talented, but I just wonder whether he’ll break down.”
The showboating is going to cause him to break down?
Boston Dave 2.0
July 28th, 2009 at 1:15 pm
I understand, but if they did do this and somehow got Sanchez & Wilson from Pirates, I believe they would be a much better team. But this is just me guessing here. Of course from the link above the RSox discussions were addressing SS Lowrie & Bucholtz.
ANOTHER hit?
Montero is a beast. I’m not worthy.
Everyone’s on the same page, and everything’s falling into place like it did for the White Sox in ’05, and the Rays last season.
Who knows if we even make the post-season, but it feels like we’re in the middle of something special right now.
I still contend that the Indians should be sellers right now.
There are quite a few teams looking to add players but it seems NOBODY is available.
Toronto is asking for way too much. The Indians can offer VMart and Lee and have multiple teams bidding on them.
The demand is there – the supply is not. Sell sell sell!
Mobile LoHud! PeteAbe is slowly working on taking over my entire life…
Rebecca-So you’re saying you don’t think they’re winning 100 games?
Pete said that if they don’t get major injuries they have a very good chance to do it.
no. 27-Forget these scouts. They jumped onto the Francessa “Joba stinks” bandwagon. He’ll be fine.
RayVT,
I just cannot see them dealing current fan favorite Pedroia unless it were absolutely necessary (and since they are still a favorite to make the playoffs, it’s not).
I imagine they view Lester and Pedroia as the face of their franchise for the next 6-8 years.
no. 27,
No, I think that’s a secondary issue. Joba’s not the most durable pitcher, and his stuff was diminished early in the season. That’s probably where that came from.
Joba’s pitching with a new attitude and the results are night and day between pre-ASG and post-ASG.
A lot of people were talking about Ellsbury in the last thread. He has been better offensively than Gardner or Melky but if you look at Gardner and Melky’s numbers combined they are better than Ellsbury.
The other thing about Ellsbury is his defense this year has been a disaster while both Melky and Gardner’s have been above average.
Ellsbury as a complete player has been worse than both Gardner AND Melky this season.
I guess I’m just pessimistic, but as great basebal as we’re playing right now I can’t help but think “Okay, it can’t go on forever, can it?”
Still, we have a shot to make some hay this year.
Just get out of the first round and Girardi will have done better than Torre from 05′-07′.
yes apparently being emotional while performing well is now called “showboating” and that will cause him to be unable to throw strikes…
in other news, T.O. and Chad Ochocinco are meeting with Joba to help him step up his game.
I’d eat my favorite blue and white Yankees hat if Pedroia were traded any time soon.
New thread.
“yes apparently being emotional while performing well is now called “showboating” and that will cause him to be unable to throw strikes…”
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good thing K-Rod didn’t know this when he set the record for saves last season… showboating all the way
Just wonderin what the peeps at the paper think of the school girl ads. I don’t mind ‘em myself.
Great website except for the smut and the plugs that endorse it. Is this a middle school locker room? Can’t imagine you modeling this to your own young impressionable loved ones who you enjoy spending time with so much… If you can’t pull the ads, why mock those who wish you would?
cody
July 28th, 2009 at 12:51 pm
your blog also generates spyware,malware, and strip club ads.
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huh?