Last posting of 2009, and before I get to #7, I wanted to dish out a bunch of thank yous. First off, thanks to everyone who has contributed to the site this year. Without the work of the contributors, whether it be the weekly affiliate reports, the direct contributions from Mr Schwimer, analysis pieces, or helping me add info to the site, this place would be much less interesting and informative, so thank you to everyone involved on that front. Second, thanks to all of the readers here, and those of you who actively participate in the discussions. If you’ve just found the site, or you’ve been here since the beginning, I thank you for continuing to come back and making this all the more worth my while. 2009 was a record setting year for the site, with over 1.5 million hits this calendar year, surpassing the 1.1 million hits last year. August 2009 was the busiest month in the site’s history, with over 240,000 visitors, including the busiest day ever, draftee signing deadline day on August 17th, with 25,000 visitors. However you found this place, I’m glad you did, and I hope you continue to come back. I have a number of projects in the pipeline for 2010, and I hope the site continues to grow. I never imagined the site becoming what it has when I started it on a whim 3 years ago, but I’m proud of where we are, and excited about where we’re going. Now, on to the voting for #7…
Daily Archives: December 30, 2009
Quick site update
I’m going to keep this short and sweet, and its not really a topic for discussion, so comments will be locked. If you need to get in touch with me on this, you can send me an e-mail. I’ve mentioned it tons of times before, but my goal in starting this site was always to keep it ad free, mainly because I don’t need to make money off of this site, and because I know how intrusive and annoying ads can be. I’ve had offers to integrate ads into the site, to merge my site with other sites, and just about everything in between. I’ve resisted all those offers, and I likely will in the future as well. This place runs on the hard work of everyone involved, especially guys like gregg who take tons of time to add their own content and keep things fresh. So, I actually came up with an alternate idea that might work. You may have noticed that I’ve added a “donation” button on the right side of the page. This button links to PayPal, and allows you to donate money in the name of the site. This donation button is 100% optional, you shouldn’t feel obligated to donate money, and I’ll never personally ask anyone who visits here to donate. But if you do want to toss a few dollars into the fund, I’d appreciate it. What will it go toward? Well, I have to renew the domain name every year to keep the unique web address and not .wordpress attached to it. Also, the money will go toward subscription services that provide baseball content that I can synthesize and pass along in some form. Finally, the money could be used to pay for content for the site, whether it be getting players to contribute in the same fashion as Michael Schwimer, or anything of that sort. This isn’t a tax writeoff, or some grand scheme. But if you want to contribute to this site, the option is there for you. I won’t address it again on the site, if you want to discuss it, then email is the avenue for that.
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