A message from Jeff the Tech Guy
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Hey everybody,
I have talked to the guys and they agreed to let me post on here once in a while to talk about the blog and some of its technical aspects. I have been privileged to be a part of this amazing ride known as the Lohud Yankees Blog for the last three years. I want to take this opportunity to thank each and every one of you for your fierce loyalty to this blog and your team.
I’m looking forward to seeing how it progresses as we move into a new baseball season. The growth and participation of this community has been nothing short of astonishing. So much so that I have spent many nights keeping an eye on an overloaded server, and trying to stop the blog from crashing. After exhausting many options, we have finally found a host that can scale to the meet the needs of our traffic spikes (excuse while I find some wood to knock on). That is a very nice problem to have. There are very few blogs out there that have 300+ comments on posts … let alone over 1000. You guys should be proud of yourselves.
It is definitely not my intention to fix something that is clearly not broken, but there are a couple things coming down the pike of which I wanted to make you guys aware. I figure now is a good time to test things out and I’ll be looking forward to your feedback. After all, it is your blog.
Threaded commenting
This will definitely change the dynamic of the blog, but it’s something that I think you guys will like. We’ll give you the opportunity to reply to each others comments directly, which should lead to some more interesting and targeted discussions. To see an example of this, check out our friends over at River Ave. Blues.
Facebook Connect/Retweet me
You’ll be able to log in with your facebook account and post under your name. This is an interesting technology I have wanted to experiment with for a while. I’m also going to implement a button that makes it easier to retweet posts on your twitter account.
Audio clips now work on smartphones
You can now listen to audio clips that Sam and Chad post on the iPhone and most web-enabled smartphones. If you want to test this out, navigate your phone over to this link for some audio and some pleasant memories. This still won’t work on a lot of old school flip phones. Time for an upgrade!
Tagging
This is something we got away from a while back, but I have been talking to Chad about getting our tagging game back on.
My brief thoughts on the Yankees
Relax, Johnny Damon is not critical to the success the 2010 NY Yankees.
I know a lot of you guys out there are technology people so I would welcome any and all suggestions regarding WordPress or anything else. My email address is jmarx@lohud.com. I expect I’ll get a lot of email after this post and I promise to read each and every one. I will do my best to respond to each one in a timely fashion.
Now, get back to work!
Christopher Moltisanti is the tech guy for Lohud?
Threaded commenting-Great idea, it’s been a long time coming!
Threaded commenting is a godsend.
Rebecca-I thought you were Optimovelist Primus? (I’m concerned since I have a personal stake in that name!)
Relax, Johnny Damon is not critical to the success the 2010 NY Yankees.
For the technology challeneged among us (ME) what is tagging?
Pat – its when each post comes with what these funny web people call a ‘tag.’ its just a way for the guys to file the posts into categories. Example: a post about Johnny Damon’s destination would be filed under something like: Yankees > Johnny Damon > Free Agent > Rumors
So if you click the tag “Johnny Damon” all posts JD related will show up. Same goes for if you clicked “free agent” or “Yankees” etc.
Great ideas, Tech Guy. Any target date on implementation?
Is that nested posting? It ruins the flow for me because I read through the threads like the great American novel that it is. But this old lady will get used to it. I would never tell you guys how to run your blog. (I do wish, though, you’d post your opinions more, Jeff. The more the merrier!)
Great work on the blog. I had no idea it was such a huge tech endeavour.
Personally, I’d rather have registration, a correction button and an ignore button that would not show a particular poster(s) so I didn’t have to pick through their garbage to find something of substance and interest to respond to.
I hope with threaded commenting we can finally be able to edit our posts!
Shame
Thank you.
What about registration? Any plans to do it this year? That would end the impersonator nonsense that is often taking place.
Looking forward to the changes. Not sure I love the thread commenting. It works at RAB, but I kind of like the “stream of consciousness” approach we have here.
I perosnally would dislike registration. So annoying.
The imperonators are generally taken care of pretty quickly.
Wes
February 2nd, 2010 at 2:06 pm
Christopher Moltisanti is the tech guy for Lohud?
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I TOTALLY thought the same thing!!
“So much so that I have spent many nights keeping an eye on an overloaded server, and trying to stop the blog from crashing.”
Our apologies to your friends and loved ones.
Wes
February 2nd, 2010 at 2:06 pm
Christopher Moltisanti is the tech guy for Lohud?
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LOL
Is this the change I was promised?
Jeff the Tech Guy-
Thanks for what you do. And making sure we didn’t crash during some wild LoHud nights and the party known as GTLU
I dislike thread commenting more than I dislike thread jumping! I too appreciate the stream of consciousness approach and the flow it brings. It’s the one thing I loved about the NY Times and a reason that I ended up here. I believe you miss out if you don’t get to see what everyone is saying about everything.
Registration is a topic that is on the table and we are looking into it. That is about all I can say about that for now. Although Facebook Connect is a good way to secure your identity, so you can’t be impersonated.
m – it may not have to be formatted that way. It could be formatted where the posts still flow consecutively as they do now.
The replies to threads could be positioned under the thread people are specifically replying to and could then be followed by a new thread, still allowing people to view every comment without clicking around. I tend to think of blogs like the Huffington Post or something as an ideal format for comments. It doesnt break up the flow of conversation, doesnt require (like IMDB) the neccessity of clicking every reply to view its content, and still shows all of the comments in the order that they are posted.
trisha-You do get to see what everybody is saying about everything, just in an organized way.
Thanks Jeff but what about
A link to the new thread at the bottom of the current thread??
Threaded commenting!! Not only will things be more orderly, but it allows people to skip over little conversations that they have no interest in.
Uncle E, did you see the Oscar nominations this morning???
Take a look at the RAB link for a good diea of how the threads will look. It’s really not that bad.
diea is obviously idea.
Are you Jeff, aka “the censor”???
Erin
February 2nd, 2010 at 2:27 pm
Uncle E, did you see the Oscar nominations this morning???
OIh not yet I will look Thanks!
Just my two cents but I don’t like threaded commenting. Makes it very hard to carry on two arguments at once and add the unrelated snarky comment from time to time!
I know opinions will be divided over the comment threading. We’re gonna give it a shot sometime next week. If a majority of the people don’t like it, we can always take it down. But I think you guys will like it.
I think a log in system would help.
Wave Your Hat-Believe me, I go on RAB a decent amount too. It’s very easy to get snarky with threaded commenting.
A better term might be “nested” commenting if they’re going with the RAB format.
I THINK I get it. So how would it differ from what we have right now? Just in that when someone responded to your particular post it would come in under yours and the rest would just line up like they do now?
Jeff
Can you review filtered words and make sure all are necessary.
I have written eloquent responses that have been lost forever and I can’t figure out why for the life of me.
Here you go, Uncle E:
http://oscar-watch.ew.com/2010.....announced/
“Just my two cents but I don’t like threaded commenting. Makes it very hard to carry on two arguments at once and add the unrelated snarky comment from time to time!”
Oh well forget it then! If you can’t do all of that, it’s not for me.
I think the RAB format is very hard to follow.
Jeff, as long as you’re here, is there a Lohud site optimized for mobile browsing?
trisha-Yes, except you’ll be able to discuss specific things better, and not have to search the blog for a response to your post. It’s organized much better.
trisha – exactly.
Here is more information on tagging
Thanks for your post–it is interesting to hear about the blog from this perspective. I think the threading will be great, and thanks for the workable audio links for my iPhone! It is more convenient for me to listen to audio on the go, than on my laptop. Just listening to Arod now–it works!
Jeff, is there a way that we can go back a screen and recapture our posts (the way we used to be able to do) if for some reason they get caught in the censor? I agree with Pat. It’s very frustrating to write a long and thought-out post only to lose it because the censor picks up some forbidden word of which we are unaware. At least in the past we could go back a screen and try to figure out the offending word(s).
@Wave Are you talking about the blog or the main site?
Oh, shucks. Repost:
Sometimes it is a welcome break to a tiresome discussion when I see the new thread arrow (thanks, Rishi, and others more recently). More times than not I’m the last poster on a thread (or so it seems) and it’s so annoying that people have moved on, but ya go with the flow. If my post was in response to a particular person, I prefer to direct that person back a thread; if I see that the discussion has moved on, I reluctantly repost; if I don’t feel my reposting would benefit anyone but me, I leave it die in the old post.
I would have no objection to people redirecting conversation back a thread to a keep a fresh post fresh, but it is tedious going back and forth between threads. No easy answer, but I think Chad & Sam do a good job here.
I haven’t really weighed in on the guest post of the day. No one can argue that Jeter doesn’t belong among the best Yankees ever. But what is occurring to me as I read is that it appears that no currently active player is can ever hope to be able to replace the top 4 or 5 (Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio, Mantle, Berra), and I’m wondering if that is fair? Perhaps we can’t answer that. Perhaps that is for the next generation to say. When Jeter finally retires and enters the realm of legend. But man, that he’s in the discussion at all is quite something isn’t it?
As far as Mariano goes – well, it seems fairly traditional that pitchers are not included in the list of greatest Yankees. Maybe that needs to change. Or maybe we just keep separate lists. It is interesting though that there really haven’t been as many hands-down “best” pitchers who were Yankees, have there?
Rich – on LoHud, the white/blue separation is a bit more stark and should be easier to follow than the RAB format. On RAB for some reason they chose a light blue and white which for someone as blind as me makes life difficult. But the indentations and the color differences should make it very easy to follow here.
btw, Jeff you look a little like y Michael Imperioli in that picture.
Jeff-
The blog – I see you do it for the main site but I haven’t found one for the Yankee Blog.
the only downside to the threaded comments is that they become difficult with the number of comments this blog typically gets. if you are trying to follow multiple conversations, you may have to jump from to top of the page to the bottom, which is tough with 1000 comments. also, how will this work with the mobile version? i just envision this being a pain on a phone.
Well, you need to go to the bottom of the page anyway to read the newest post, don’t you?
@Trisha .. I’ll look into that, but I don’t think so. I believe the latest version of wordpress(The blogging software this thing runs on) blocks that ability because it presents a security risk.
@Wave what kind of device are you using? The blog should automatically reformat itself when you visit it on a mobile device.
The best software I have seen is at NYYFans.
I would love to see registration.
And yeah .. I hear that Molitsante/Michael Imperioli thing all the time. I love that show and miss it badly!
Tricia, Since I’ve already invested on the Yanks winning 100 games, put me in for 101….The censor issue is a a pain in the arse
Jeff thanks for the post, sounds like you guys are working hard.
Good job on the mobile version of the blog, it works well.
It would help many, like Pat’s issue with filtered words if the screen would tell us which word or phrase the filter finds objectionable without deleting the entire post..just hi-lite the offending word so it can be changed. Much like spell-check does.
Jeff -
Thanks for this information. You do a fantastic job and we’d be nowhere without you and your team.
I tried reading over at RAB and their threaded or nested commentary. I agree with mel – it was difficult for me to follow. But, if the majority of you like it, I guess this old dog is gonna have to learn a new trick! I’m adaptable, at least I’d like to think so!
Jeff,
Could we have a refresh button at the bottom or would it be possible for it to refresh its self?
Jeff,
Did you ever see the tech guy skits on SNL with Jimmy Fallon as the tech guy? I used to love them because the character that Fallon played was so realistic to the tech guys I usually dealt with and I’m sure the “dummies” that the tech guys used to think we were (and still do). How realistic were those skits (if you saw them)?
Thanks Jeff. It drove me crazy on Saturday because I lost an entire post. I couldn’t figure out what the heck I said in it that caused it to get caught. So just for giggles I reconstructed it and went to an old thread and did the line-by-line trick. Well when I came to the offending word, I couldn’t figure out what the heck the problem was since no elision with the word before or word later spelled anything vulgar!
The astute posters here immediately figured it out for me. It was the screenname of a real loser troll poster from last season. I am very happy to give up that word if it means we never have to see that person again!
Rich in NJ
February 2nd, 2010 at 2:46 pm
The best software I have seen is at NYYFans.
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As long as it’s run by a bunch of children and little Napoleons, it’s not worth the trouble to go there.
How would an edit button work? Wouldn’t (some) people go back and erase imprudent comments and even TOS violations?
Jeff,
Another thing, could an entry be posted when a new main topic is posted or again, something at the bottom near the Leave a Reply so that we know when something new has been posted by Chad, Sam and other>
@sab not big fan of SNL, but I know the stereotype. Yes, it’s accurate for most of the tech guys I have met. No, it does not fit my persona at all. I actually come from a communications background, and have become a “tech guy”.
Nick in SF in NC
February 2nd, 2010 at 2:56 pm
How would an edit button work? Wouldn’t (some) people go back and erase imprudent comments and even TOS violations?
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It would help you uneducated people look smarter when you can go back and correct your typos.
@trisha email me that name. I was worried that would happen.
Honestly, I don’t comment quite as often as I’d like to on this blog because there is no threaded posting. Having to hit refresh and scroll to find someone who replied to your post is eternally frustrating. Yeah to threaded posting!
GB, that’s a GREAT idea. I’ve seen that on other sites. Jeff, any chance we could have that, where the censor would automatically highlight the offending word?
Pat M – got it. I tend to go with whatever comes to me (kind of like a 6th sense way of doing it) and seriously I’m torn between the numbers 101, 105 and 107. I’ll know it when it happens.
Jeff, I’ll email you the name but I’d rather use another word than have that person back here!!!
Jeff, any shot of banning by IP address? That seems like the most sane way to keep out trolls and imposters.
Best Pic Avatar
Best Dir Avatar
Actor J Bridges
Sup Actor Waltz
Actress Bullock
Sup Actress MoNique
Bset Animated Up
Best Song Crazy Heart
SCore Avatar
Art Direction, Cinematograghy, , Sound mix, Sound Editing, Editing, Effects = Avatar
Best Screenplay = Hurt Locker
Best Adapted SP = Precious
Make-up The Young Victoria
Foreign = The White Ribbon
Costumes Nine
Best Doc The Cove
Best Short doc – The Last Truck
Best Short Kavi
Best short Animated The Lady and the Reaper
I need to do more research on some of these but if you enter this ballot into a pool you will win! Bank on it.
Woah, level of discourse alert! Let’s not refer to someone as a ‘loser’, please!
Jeff:
Without you our virtual world does not exist, we’re all just a bunch of crazies muttering to ourselves about pinstriped things. Keep up the good work, attaboy and thanks.
Hey, they don’t furlough techies, do they?
Not a big fan of threaded commenting. The site I’m “the tech guy” for (techdirt.com) has threaded comments as a user preference, so you can choose to view them threaded or not. My setting is not. Making it an option would be nice.
A nice comment feature that might help to keep comment threads from crossing multiple posts would be comment email notification. When you leave a comment, you can check a box requesting an email when someone else comments on the same post. That way, you know if someone replies to your comment. (Should probably be limited to registered users, to avoid spam issues.)
I know some people really want user registration. I sent an email to Pete way back about registration. Have to be careful about how you implement it. Forcing registration for commenting tends to lead to fewer comments. Techdirt has user registration, but it’s optional, and we identify comments from registered users — which helps reduce the imposter issue.
One thing I’d like is the option to view the blog normally on my iPhone, instead of in the light mobile format. I really don’t like the mobile format.
Wouldn’t threaded commenting take away from the randomness of postings??
If people replied by comment people might miss out when I start talking about Sesame Street, Stevie Nicks and muffins
Gave up trying to post mid last season. Let’s try again.
Looks Good Uncle E. I’m not on the Avatar bandwagon, but I know it’s going to win. I agree with all of your acting picks-I thought George Clooney had more of a shot, but he’s been losing to Jeff Bridges the entire awards season, so I’m going with Bridges as my pick. The only one I disagree with is Adapted Screenplay-I think that’s going to Up in the Air.
“Woah, level of discourse alert! Let’s not refer to someone as a ‘loser’, please!”
Generic. Generic. Noun used as an adjective to describe disruptive trolls.
Always as a topic of discussion, never directed at a comment made by someone.
Erica – always OPPC – Is done with Brian Cashman!
February 2nd, 2010 at 3:09 pm
Wouldn’t threaded commenting take away from the randomness of postings??
If people replied by comment people might miss out when I start talking about Sesame Street, Stevie Nicks and muffins
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Erica, I think there should be a Sesame Street tag just for us.
PLEASE send the full text of the post through to the RSS feed. I know you want the web hits… but instead, you can just put ads in the feed. PLEASE! I hate having to click through, especially since I’m usually reading via my phone.
Everyone has an excuse when they lower the level of discourse.
Well, there you go. Hello all. Hope to contribute with little to no controversy.
Been following the religiously blog > two years. First time poster on any blog.
Die hard bomber fan since ’65.
Great run since ’95. Great team this year! Should be big fun.
Jeff, I’m using a palm pre plus. I’m new to it so maybe I haven’t found the right settings, the pages are displayed very small.
That’s “have followed blog religiously”
GreenBeret7
February 2nd, 2010 at 3:17 pm
One thing that makes comparison of teams/players long and tedious is the inability only post one link at a time, and the statement that comes with a multiple link post is ineffective. It never gets the ok. Not sure what the exact statement is.
Ah, yes. Here’s the statement.
“Your comment is awaiting moderation” It never gets “moderated”. It just disappears.
@Wave Interesting. I will have to test using the Palm pre. I think my dad has one.
Interesting comment from Bob Klapisch.
“A-Rod benefited from the newer, healthier atmosphere in the Yankee clubhouse. Joe Torre, Jason Giambi and Mike Mussina were gone, taking with them their antipathy for A-Rod.”
Antipathy is a strong word. I’m feeling less sorry for Mussina and Giambi not getting a ring if they were contributing to the problem.
@murphydog Oh yeah they do!
Jeff-
I think it’s my mistake. I’m kind of new to the mobile world. I just resized the screen and it works just fine.
The problem with editing is that it’ll become impossible for anybody to proe anything. Someone says you said something just go “No I didn’t!” and change it, and nobody could prove anything.
@Wave no prob, glad it works. Thanks for letting me know.
pat
February 2nd, 2010 at 3:20 pm
Interesting comment from Bob Klapisch.
“A-Rod benefited from the newer, healthier atmosphere in the Yankee clubhouse. Joe Torre, Jason Giambi and Mike Mussina were gone, taking with them their antipathy for A-Rod.”
Antipathy is a strong word. I’m feeling less sorry for Mussina and Giambi not getting a ring if they were contributing to the problem.
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Mussina had problems with Rodriguez mostly because of errors and he wasn’t one to keep is displeasure a secret, either on the field or in the media. Of course, he never mentioned the number of tomes Roriguez bat would bail out a less than stellar pitching performance. Giambi is the one that told Verducci about the private conversation that Rodriguez had with Torre. I don’t miss either player and hardly care that they missed out on a ring. I’d say that they were as much or more to blame than Rodriguez for the 2002-2009 faiures.
As long as we are posting technical frustrations, sometimes when I submit a comment I get a “looks like that’s a duplicate comment” (or words to that effect) response, and it gets caught by the filter, when I never posted the comment before.
When I get that response to a comment it’s hopeless, I can try to change the comment around some but I can never get it past the filter.
Cam February 2nd, 2010 at 3:01 pm
Honestly, I don’t comment quite as often as I’d like to on this blog because there is no threaded posting. Having to hit refresh and scroll to find someone who replied to your post is eternally frustrating. Yeah to threaded posting!
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I’ve had the opposite impression. I find threaded blogs like RAB somewhat confusing.
I can, however, see your point if your trying to following commentary between two or more bloggers re: one topic.
In the end, I guess I’d get used to any form.
By the way, if you aren’t following us on Twitter, you should be:
http://twitter.com/LohudYankees
Correction: faiures.
****failures****
An edit button, please.
GreenBeret7
February 2nd, 2010 at 3:32 pm
Correction: faiures.
****failures****
An edit button, please
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Maybe you should just consider requesting spell check
Sorry, but, I don’t twitter, tweet, tweak or chirp.
Erica – always OPPC – Is done with Brian Cashman!
February 2nd, 2010 at 3:36 pm
GreenBeret7
February 2nd, 2010 at 3:32 pm
Correction: faiures.
****failures****
An edit button, please
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Maybe you should just consider requesting spell check
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I’m thinking of something nasty to say about the Muppets.
Jeff Marx
I personally like the style like this over RAB style. See the link. Easy to follow and they have loads of activity too. You could have your Stories, with links to the other format that would allow easy conversation and looking.
http://www.techsideline.com/me...../football/
Not a fan of the techsideline style. Too much refreshing.
Good Lord if I had to open links the only post I’d read is my own! I am laaaaa-zy!
GreenBeret7
February 2nd, 2010 at 3:37 pm
I’m thinking of something nasty to say about the Muppets.
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Don’t do it GB!! You’ll have me after you as well as Erica.
Perhaps the bloggin’ boys could add a link to you for legitimate tech questions, Jeff, or, would it be best for you for them to contact them to forward the question?
GreenBeret7
Pinning “2002-2008 failure” on any players is somewhat harsh. If anything, Mussina and Giambi’s contribution to the club’s failure to go all the way was not for lack of effort.
Maybe more post prime declining skills on their part. Mostly, I believe, the configuration of squads that lacked the solid balance of starting pitching, youth, speed and experience of last year’s, and apparently this year’s squad.
The failure to advance deep in the post season was frustrating and Mussina and Giambi were supposedly stars brought in to add finesse and thump. So they could be said to carry some of the blame for not getting over the hump.
Jeff also looks a little like Franciso Cervelli!
Erin
February 2nd, 2010 at 3:40 pm
GreenBeret7
February 2nd, 2010 at 3:37 pm
I’m thinking of something nasty to say about the Muppets.
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Don’t do it GB!! You’ll have me after you as well as Erica.
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Brrr. You guys scare me. Worse than a mother polar bear protecting her cubs. I’d rather tangle with a great white shark.
If there’s one model to avoid it’s Advance Internet otherwise known locally as NJ.com. The ultimate in troll city.
DYD INDA WUL
February 2nd, 2010 at 3:43 pm
GreenBeret7
Pinning “2002-2008 failure” on any players is somewhat harsh. If anything, Mussina and Giambi’s contribution to the club’s failure to go all the way was not for lack of effort.
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It sure hasn’t stopped the majority of the idiot fans and equally idiotic media from dropping the majority of that blame on Rodriguez. and, it started in 2004 because the pitching collapsed and nobody hit after game four.
GreenBeret7
February 2nd, 2010 at 3:44 pm
Erin
February 2nd, 2010 at 3:40 pm
GreenBeret7
February 2nd, 2010 at 3:37 pm
I’m thinking of something nasty to say about the Muppets.
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Don’t do it GB!! You’ll have me after you as well as Erica.
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Brrr. You guys scare me. Worse than a mother polar bear protecting her cubs. I’d rather tangle with a great white shark.
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That’s right. You don’t mess with the Muppets.
I was going to send Miss Piggy after you again, but you always threaten to eat her. Maybe Oscar would teach you a lesson.
@Greenberet .. send em’ on over to me. I’ll talk to the guys about putting something in the sidebar.
jmarx@lohud.com
February 2nd, 2010 at 3:48 pm
DYD INDA WUL
February 2nd, 2010 at 3:43 pm
GreenBeret7
Pinning “2002-2008 failure” on any players is somewhat harsh. If anything, Mussina and Giambi’s contribution to the club’s failure to go all the way was not for lack of effort.
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It sure hasn’t stopped the majority of the idiot fans and equally idiotic media from dropping the majority of that blame on Rodriguez. and, it started in 2004 because the pitching collapsed and nobody hit after game four.
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You got that right. But IIRC, game 4 in 2004 got rained out that Friday night, allowing for Pedro and Schilling to rest up and pitch again.
Had a bad feeling about that rainout. But who would have thunk going down four in a row.
There was also some thing about a pinch runner that couldn’t be stopped…
and now we now know about the MannyOrtiz Nectar.
But hey, #27 and the promise of ##28-30, make up for 2004, painful as that was.
GB
I remember those things but the word antipathy is bigger than making a face or sniping in a postgame.
It may just be my personal bias to the word though.
Jeff… Thanks for all you do. Thanks for your dedication to the blog.
And especially.. thanks for the threaded comments.
I hope they minimize the “=> Go to the next post” comments.
But in any case, I know that all your work helps to make the blog better!!
Wait till we do it all over Again
February 2nd, 2010 at 3:39 pm
I understand! That is a drawback, but I have to refresh now on this board. I kind of like this style, but would like some kind of overview as well.
Thanks, Jeff. If it gets to flood you, maybe you could do a spot like this once or twice a month to answer questions or take our “fabulous suggestions”.
GreenBeret7
February 2nd, 2010 at 3:44 pm
Brrr. You guys scare me. Worse than a mother polar bear protecting her cubs. I’d rather tangle with a great white shark.
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Don’t mess with the Sesame Street Mafia!
Erin
February 2nd, 2010 at 3:49 pm
That’s right. You don’t mess with the Muppets.
I was going to send Miss Piggy after you again, but you always threaten to eat her. Maybe Oscar would teach you a lesson.
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My cousin’s 7 year old son told me on Sunday that Sesame Street was stupid. LOL. I tickled him until he couldn’t breathe and told him I was sending Oscar after him.
@Beret yeah I have talked to them about making this a regular feature. We’ll see how that goes.
To the people with filter complaints-
After getting burned too many times, I have started something new. Whenever I post anything of length, I do a quick “copy” right before I submit so that way, if the filter is feeling moody- I just paste it back and try to figure out the offensive word
pat
February 2nd, 2010 at 3:56 pm
GB
I remember those things but the word antipathy is bigger than making a face or sniping in a postgame.
It may just be my personal bias to the word though.
————————————————————Possibly a matter of semantics, but, those are the types of things that make me think that they weren’t exactly the best of team mates. I’d certainly never trust them “in a foxhole”.
Erica – always OPPC – Is done with Brian Cashman!
February 2nd, 2010 at 3:59 pm
Erin
February 2nd, 2010 at 3:49 pm
That’s right. You don’t mess with the Muppets.
I was going to send Miss Piggy after you again, but you always threaten to eat her. Maybe Oscar would teach you a lesson.
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My cousin’s 7 year old son told me on Sunday that Sesame Street was stupid. LOL. I tickled him until he couldn’t breathe and told him I was sending Oscar after him.
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Good for you!! What’s wrong with that kid??!!
Thanks again for the response, Jeff.
So, for my next suggestion…
j.k Jeff. Great job done by all.
Erin
February 2nd, 2010 at 4:02 pm
My cousin’s 7 year old son told me on Sunday that Sesame Street was stupid. LOL. I tickled him until he couldn’t breathe and told him I was sending Oscar after him.
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Good for you!! What’s wrong with that kid??!!
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He does it just to bug me. He also liked to run up to me and in his best John Sterling voice (that a 7 year old can muster) yell, “The Yankees LOOOOOOOOOOSE”.
That usually gets him tickled as well
My 2 cents:
I vote for registration, or the ability to ban IP’s.
Choice of format would be good.
An “alert” for a new post.
Having the filter warn rather than banning an entire post.
Thanks for keeping the blog machinery running.
Erin
February 2nd, 2010 at 3:49 pm
Brrr. You guys scare me. Worse than a mother polar bear protecting her cubs. I’d rather tangle with a great white shark.
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That’s right. You don’t mess with the Muppets.
I was going to send Miss Piggy after you again, but you always threaten to eat her. Maybe Oscar would teach you a lesson.
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LMAO. There are just too many remarks that this begs for. However, I wouldn’t need to worry about the filters anymore. The site would melt.
Erica – always OPPC – Is done with Brian Cashman!
February 2nd, 2010 at 4:04 pm
Erin
February 2nd, 2010 at 4:02 pm
My cousin’s 7 year old son told me on Sunday that Sesame Street was stupid. LOL. I tickled him until he couldn’t breathe and told him I was sending Oscar after him.
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Good for you!! What’s wrong with that kid??!!
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He does it just to bug me. He also liked to run up to me and in his best John Sterling voice (that a 7 year old can muster) yell, “The Yankees LOOOOOOOOOOSE”.
That usually gets him tickled as well
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Just the image of a mini John Sterling has me cracking up.
don’t know if the thread comment thing is good or bad. Maybe
i would like an ‘edit button’ though.
Damon signed
I keep up with the blog mainly on my blackberry as I’m pretty busy and rarely at my computer. I hope any changes made will be mobile user friendly as the current format is…
Mike
February 2nd, 2010 at 4:15 pm
Damon signed
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With who?
Erin
February 2nd, 2010 at 4:17 pm
Mike
February 2nd, 2010 at 4:15 pm
Damon signed
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With who?
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Better yet…. SAYS who?
Damon signed up for all this foolishness when he decided to play “bluff” the Yankees, with Bor@$$ as his “pardner”, it would be laughable to think that he ends up with more than 6mil a year from anyone outside of the NYY. What a dolt !
( sorry about that )
Yes to threaded comments! I rarely read the comments and even more rarely post because wading through the large amounts of off topic posts and posts carried over from the previous threads is annoying. It is too difficult to discuss a specific topic or even just the topic of the post with all the other noise that goes on. These changes will make it easier for people who are in the “in crowd” to participate. As it stands now, to have any meaningful discussion, you need to spend too much time following the comments.
http://www.riverdogs.com/news/.....le_id=2064
CHARLESTON, SC – The New York Yankees have announced that Charleston RiverDogs skipper Torre Tyson will take over the reins of the High-A Tampa Yankees of the Florida State League and that RiverDogs hitting coach Greg Colbrunn has been promoted to manager.
Jeff – great post. BTW, anyone ever tell you that you look like Michael Imperioli (a/k/a Christopher Moltisanti, or “Spider” from Goodfellas)??
Tom, that’s great news for Tyson and Colbrunn. Tyson is going to make a really fine ML coach and manager someday soon.
He’d like to come here, but the Tigers say they are not on the verge of signing free agent Johnny Damon.
In response to questions about Damon, general manager Dave Dombrowski has said twice in the last two days, including to The Detroit News on Tuesday morning, “We’re not close to making any kind of deals at this point.”
From The Detroit News: http://www.detnews.com/article.....z0ePsSsm2F
Mike
February 2nd, 2010 at 4:19 pm
( sorry about that )
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Sure, just when I thought the poor guy had finally signed somewhere…
just catching up on some of the posts…Jeter is one of my favorites, but I wouldn’t put him as best Yankee ever. Each generation has had their own issues to deal with.
no to twitter for me, I had a hard enough time learning to text, but I have figured it out as it is my son’s preferred method of communication.
Mike- that was cruel
For those junkies in need of a baseball fix, the Caribbean WS started today at 2:30 PM on the MLB-TV Network.
I tried following this blog on twitter at some point last season. During a game. With the constant ingame updates AND the odd comments (at the time by Pete) that weren’t necessarily part of the updates. Suffice to say, in order to save my marriage (and I only sightly exaggerate here!), I stopped following on twitter. Even on vibrate, it drove my sweetie very crazy!
Awesome work Jeff the Tech Guy. Glad we get to finally hear from the dude that makes this place run.
All the ideas you are planning to add sound great.
Very impressed with the speed/quality of the blog. Especially impressed with the audio posts and how well that works out even with all the people on here. I know audio isn’t the bandwidth eater it used to be but still impressive.
Thanks a lot for the great site and looking forward to the new changes!
GreenBeret7
February 2nd, 2010 at 4:41 pm
For those junkies in need of a baseball fix, the Caribbean WS started today at 2:30 PM on the MLB-TV Network.
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Baseball in the Caribbean. That sounds pretty good to me!
If Seattle decides to sign Orlando Hudson, I’d like to see NYYs get him and convert him to a corner outfielder. The guy can hammer baseballs and rarely strikes out.
Sounds great. Thats been my major gripe with the blog a lot of times its hard to follow the comments and I’ll have to scroll up to see who people are responding to.
From what it sounds like, it seems like you’d be implementing Disqus? If so that would be amazing as I personally love it.
Erin, I think that this runs for the full week. I’d have to check the schedule. Her’s a schedule to check daily on what they are showing, Erin.
http://mlb.mlb.com/network/schedule/
Nick in Sf
Welcome back to NC, Terrible weather the last while.
I dont post much but I do read every day. I think registration would help with the trolls
Chad/Josh/Sam/Jeff, any word on where Luis Sojo moving on to after Tampa Yank’s managerial change?
GreenBeret7
February 2nd, 2010 at 4:57 pm
Erin, I think that this runs for the full week. I’d have to check the schedule. Her’s a schedule to check daily on what they are showing, Erin.
http://mlb.mlb.com/network/schedule/
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Thanks GB! I’ll have to check it out.
I am so sick of winter, maybe seeing a little of the Caribbean sun on TV will cheer me up.
I agree with no fixing something if it isn’t broken. But everything you listed is absolutely great. And LONG overdue. Thank you.
Here’s all the miscellaneous yankee stuff on twitter. It posts everything-news, press releses, fan chatter-and updates constantly.
And you don’t have to be on twitter to read them:
http://twitter.com/search?q=%23Yankees
My biggest gripe about this site, is that I can’t read an entire article through an RSS reader, such as google reader. I have to click on the heading to open the lohud web page, which is a major annoyance mostly because my work blocks many of the ads/prohibited linking sites on your page and brings up about 30 pop-ups before i can read the article. This changed sometime in the last year – you used to be able to read an entire article – there was no ‘jump’, or if there was it was only on very long articles. Please change it back!!!
Erin
February 2nd, 2010 at 5:00 pm
GreenBeret7
February 2nd, 2010 at 4:57 pm
Erin, I think that this runs for the full week. I’d have to check the schedule. Her’s a schedule to check daily on what they are showing, Erin.
http://mlb.mlb.com/network/schedule/
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Thanks GB! I’ll have to check it out.
I am so sick of winter, maybe seeing a little of the Caribbean sun on TV will cheer me up.
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How about a little David Ruffin? “I got sunshine….on a cloudy day”…
GB 7
They take the Serie Caribe serious in those parts. I lived next to the University Stadium in Caracas, Venezuela for several years, and it gets raucus there.
The team that plays there, Leones de Caracas are in this year’s series. They are the Yankees of Venezuela. The rivalry with their nemesis, Navegantes de Magallanes, rivals that of the Yankees and Red Sox.
Could never get to sleep during one of those games. Amidst the hum of the stadium, a lion would roar if the Leones hit a home run. Enough to stir even the deepest sleeper.
The fandom really gets into the games, too. You end up wearing the wares from the concession stands.
Its worth taking a looksee at a game or two, though. Almost the energy of the Bronx Zoo (OYS bleachers) along with good pitching and decent fielding.
i checked out the threaded commenting at RAB.
i don’t like it at first glance because i find the lohud chronological commenting much easier to follow.
as a disclaimer, i really have little interest in RAB because i’ve never liked what ben k has to say. i remember first butting heads with him over bernie williams and nothing i’ve read since has changed my opinion about his inexperience with baseball.
there is a vast gap between the two sites. i wouldn’t be copying too much.
lohud yankees blog has caught lightening in a bottle.
i’d be careful what i change, and i certainly wouldn’t look at less successful blogs to copy their format.
Ditto to “catching lightening in a bottle” randy l. If it ain’t broke…
Leave our LoHud alone !!!!! Well maybe registration has merit
New thread for any nomadic hyenas who wand to go.
Pat, I just mainly want an edit button…you know…for those that can’t spell.
Pat M. A little sanding couldn’t hurt, right?
I’m cool with registration; after reading about all the grief from some of the old heads here (my first day posting here – or anywhere for that matter).
Either way, I’m good.
GB, a good edit button is counting to five before hitting send. Not foolproof, but helps some.
Thanks Jeff, You surely have your work cut out for you with this blog. Just want to express my appreciation for keeping this gang going.
Most blogs allow readers to go the next or previous post without going back to the Home Screen. Can we have that feature, please? thanks
Even a Cubs Fan like you will be a great asset to Lohud.com…..Wish I was there! Good Luck!!
Jeff, I’m not much of a “techie” but the ability to respond directly to someone will be a HUGE improvement….thanks…