Welcome to the New Baseball-Intellect

January 8, 2009 BY Alex Eisenberg 7 Comments

The transition to WordPress is basically complete. There are still a few kinks and minor issues to work out, which will be done in the near future. I’ll probably tweak the design some more as well. A couple of notes:

1. RSS Feeds – the URL of the feed has changed, but all feeds are redirected to Feedburner. Google Reader doesn’t appear to be showing the updated feeds, so I’ll have to monitor that. I’m hopeful e-mail updates will continue to be sent out as well. I am still trying to determine how to display content in the RSS feeds. My articles are usually very long, so I prefer excerpts. Instead of using small teasers on the front page, I’ll probably use a paragraph for excerpts, which will then be used in the RSS feed. I’m thinking about offering full text RSS feeds. I’m not sure if anybody has a preference, but let me know if you do.

2. Feedback – very important I get feedback, which you can do by contacting me or by using the comments section. I need to know when there are problems with the site in terms of loading speed, design, etc so I can fix it as soon as possible.

3. Comments – as mentioned earlier, comments are enabled. I invite people to say something, whatever you want–whether you want to make a shout out, post a link to your own website, anything, go ahead and post it. I’m hoping to build some sort of community here.

4. The old site will still work and will be integrated with the new site. I put a lot of work into that content and don’t want it to simply disappear off line. There are some pages that I would like to simply use in the new site’s format and I will be working to do that over time.

I believe that’s it. Thanks for you patience and support through this process. My next article (Boston Red Sox, part 2) should be coming soon and again, any feedback anybody has, I would like to hear it. Thanks again.

7 Comments »

Shields said:

Looks good!

# 8 January 2009 at 9:35 AM

Mike R said:

I got here from my google reader feed, so it seems to be working. Also, I paragraph or two excerpt would be fine and I would follow straight to here to finish the article. Personally, I’m not a fan of having to scroll and scroll through a website in my google reader to get to the next article (if a certain website has more than 1 article in my feed), so excerpts or just the intro is fine by me.

# 8 January 2009 at 10:54 PM

admin (author) said:

Yeah, that’s what I was thinking too…I usually don’t like to scroll through full articles either.

Good to hear about google reader. Besides e-mail, most of my subscribers come from there. I subscribed to myself from google reader and I’m still seeing my old feed. I’ll give it a couple days to update. My feedburner stats are back to normal as well.

# 9 January 2009 at 4:08 AM

admin (author) said:

Thanks, Shields!!! Still working on it though…

# 9 January 2009 at 4:09 AM

Brock said:

this is fantastic! the only addition to the rankings i’d like too see is when you think players like Red Sox SP Bowden, Andeson, will get called up. I know Bowden got one game in last year but do you think he has a chance to break with club out of spring training? I could see Bowden being the #5 after Wakefield Lester Dice Beckett to start the season given Pennys and Smoltz health, tho Smoltz is amazing to recover.

# 17 January 2009 at 4:55 AM

admin (author) said:

I need to go back and add some ETA’s since that was a request.

I would expect Bowden to be called up at some point next year, but let’s go through their rotation:

Lester
Beckett
Dice-K
Wakefield

I think they’ll start with Penny and see if he’s good to go. They are going to take things very slowly with Smoltz and he’ll be back in May or June. I would prefer to see Smoltz in the pen. I don’t see either being healthy the entire year and I’m sure one or two of the four above will go down at some point as well. Buchholz and Bowden are next in line. It depends on how they’re pitching but I suspect they’ll give Buchholz the first shot if somebody goes down to injury.

# 19 January 2009 at 10:19 PM