Thank You, BtB Readers

by Sky Kalkman on Nov 27, 2008 2:47 PM EST Comment 12 comments

There are much more important things to be thankful for today than anything baseball related, but the crew at Beyond The Box Score -- RJ, Peter, Dan, and me -- want to thank everyone reading this for being a part of our growing community. Over the past few months we've gone from a few comments per article (mostly from RJ and Peter) to fifty not being uncommon. We've tripled our visits and quadrupled our page views, already topping the 100,000 mark in November. And we continue to build relationships with other websites. So, thanks.

Going forward, we have a lot of ideas to keep things exciting and smart. But we'd love to have your feedback. What do you really like about BtB? What would you liked changed? What features can we add? We're open to anything and everything. Fire away!

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Less numbers more grit

I’d like it if you could have some kind of sabr-dictionary for the ignorant masses (ie me) who don’t pray to Nate Silver or Billy Beane. I also like the historical posts, good offseason material.

"It never is, because I'm the Shogun. And before you get to the Shogun, you gotta go through a lot of ninjas."

by Ozzie Montana on Nov 27, 2008 3:08 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

I think more numbers, more grit

I too am part of the ignorant masses(but fighting hard to leave the masses). I think primers along the lines of Graham’s tRA fanpost every now and then would be fantastic. I also love the numbers. I am slowly, but hopefully surely, getting there.

Of course all of this may already have happened and I haven’t found it yet. There is so much great stuff to find on this site.

* sarcasm might be involved in this comment

by mattyfrommo on Nov 28, 2008 10:03 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

you guys are doing pretty good

i haven’t even been reading that long, but it has been improving since i started

I am Mega Man, here's my mega plan, you die!

by U-God on Nov 27, 2008 5:13 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Hey, I like it here

Thank you for the good job you guys make. Keep it coming, because it’s awesome.

Mother---- him and John Wayne!

by MerryGoByeBye on Nov 27, 2008 6:26 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

I like the numbers

I have to say, Sky, that this place is now one of the first place I come for stuff. You guys provide tremendous insight and give me ideas about topics to explore over at Viva El Birdos and I feel that what you do here makes me a better writer over there. I truly am thankful I started reading you guys regularly.

My advice — keep on keeping on. You guys absolutely do a hell of a job so you and fangraphs have replaced THT and BP at the top of my daily scroll.

by chuckb on Nov 27, 2008 7:00 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

You guys are the shit.

Getting this sort of smart, in depth baseball writing for free is a real kick to the old awesome bone.

This blog is firmly on my daily must-read list.

Thanks for all the hard work y’all do.

The 40 Trumps All!!!

There are two kinds of men in this world: Men who make jump throws, and men who wish that they were Derek Jeter so that they could make jump throws.

by thedirkatron on Nov 27, 2008 8:22 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

i am a newbie to the sabre community...

so i would sort of appreciate a “reference” section to the site. even if you guys were to do some “tutoring” every now and then, i think that would be cool.

by MikeD. on Nov 27, 2008 9:33 PM EST reply actions 0 recs