Sammy Sofa

If I can, I'd like to drop Wil Myers from my bench for Jarred Kelenic.

Weird; the article notifications go to the promotions section of my inbox, but the email from your address went to my spam folder. Must be the fake-sounding name.

Wait, so when the heck did the site come back up at this new address? I just got an email about the new article today, which was the only indication/update of any kind that I got; I just assumed the site was nuked and was gone.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1110-W-Addison-St-Chicago-IL-60613/2101702900_zpid/ My dude, I know you're selling this totally based on location, but that is a REALLY rough "as is."

Scottie was right: Phil's a bitch.

New GM:

My guess is that anyone who has done security long enough knows you just have to get out of the way as soon as you hear "Knuck If You Buck."

I mean, you're kinda asking for this to happen the second you choose to play this song. Instant club-clearer:

The greatest hurled food moment: https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/33734026/fenway-pizza-chucker

How very Elon of him.

I figure there's nothing Bartman himself could do legally if he was bothered enough by this, which seems a little odd to me. Like, if you're a player, I figure there's some completely exploitative clause in their contracts or whatever that make player days a thing that can happen whether they want it or not, but what about a regular dude like Bartman? Would the Marlins org have to approach him and get him to sign off, or pay him for it? Or is he just SOL since this he became a "public figure" whether he liked it or not?

Shake your body, turn it out if you can, man

Right, and that works once you figure it out; I feel like that it's something you have to figure out in the first place is the problem. Again, I realize this is mostly a me/a lot of old folks problem as opposed to an actual problem-problem for the site itself, but people readily bail when something isn't as simple as what they're used to, especially when you're talking about a struggling to retain interest medium/format like an internet message board.

To me, the two biggest knocks right now is the lack of a social forum that everyone can access, and nothing resembling the Active Topics option we had on the old board. The former I think hinders both old and new users. Look, I get it; the way it's set up is to cordon off the political threads, because the board as it exists now is a commodity the owners are trying to make money off of, and, bottom line an overly Left-leaning sports message board isn't exactly a recipe for success along those lines. That sucks, and, quite frankly (IMO), the type of advertisers or users that are scared off by such a thing aren't worth any kind of effort in the first place, but that's not my call. But sectioning off ALL of the social threads, so that there's no music or movie or TV or ANY non-sports/board discussion just seems really bizarre and shortsighted. And as for Active Forums, yeah, that's totally a preference thing, but I'd pretty confidently bet that's how most of the legacy users were navigating the old board. That's not say that has to be the only option; more navigation choices makes sense, but I think not really having any option that works like Active Topics isn't great in terms of retaining or drawing back old members. The whole "show unread" thing just doesn't work as clearly and simply and easily as Active Topics did.

Gotta be honest, it seems dead as hell. Maybe I'm still not used to navigating, or figuring out how the new "active topics" options work, but, IMO, even by the fading standards of the old site, there doesn't seem to be a lot of users posting (I'm not counting the blogs or articles). I'm generally just going by unread topics since each visit, and the non-sports posting seems to be mostly non-existent outside of the same 2-3 people occasionally posting, which, IMO, isn't surprising since it's still closed off from the rest of the board (including to some old-timers who just gave up without posting when they couldn't get in). Even the sports stuff seems to have a lot less traffic/engagement than the old board; going completely unscientifically by the new "like" system, most posts seem to get almost no responses along those lines, unlike the old heart setup. Am I just completely off about this? Are the numbers still showing the same or more people coming by than before?

Hey, good for him.

The horsefeathers is Epstein even doing these days.