Site News- Moving to MCB
As some of you may be aware, several months back, I was “hired” to write a few posts per week for a startup website who’s name is not worth mentioning. The guy who started the site had very lofty goals, but very little time/experience. Long story short, almost 60 percent of the over 100 writers he recruited for his site had resigned their post as of a few days ago. After I publicly aired my grievances on their Tigers page, I decided to go ahead and resign to focus my full attention on my baby, Tigers Tracks.
The resignation email was simply a formality, I’m sure. But needless to say, Mr. Stewart still has not responded. In fact the only response to the rather honest post I wrote was to take down the post (which is why I haven’t linked to it). After everything I wrote about him and his site, he didn’t even send me an email. Again, not shocking.
That brings us to yesterday morning. I spent the morning at work trying to decide if I really wanted to back out of the deal I had with them, but decided they had long since backed out on me. I wrote a piece here and then sent the email to Mr. Stewart. Not 10 minutes later I received an email.
The email came from Wally Fish, Editor at Kings of Kauffman and MLB Director for the FanSided network. His letter informed me that Joe Dexter of Motor City Bengals was stepping into a new role within the site and they were offering yours truly the lead blogger position covering the Tigers. After several emails back and forth we agreed, and the next post you read from me will be found there.
And that’s the bitter pill.
Tigers Tracks has only been on the scene for seven months and this site has already grown bigger than I ever imagined it would. But stand-alone blogs just don’t have the access to the major outlets that networked blogs have. I will be sacrificing some design control for increased exposure and access. The clincher was getting the go ahead to transfer my archives over to MCB. Doing so will allow me to continue the By The Numbers series I have enjoyed writing so much.
As far as I know, Joe will continue to do the fine work he does on his podcast, and he’ll still post once in a while, too. I will be doing the Lion’s share of the writing, however. With camp opening in just a couple weeks, expect a renewed effort as I bring you the best I got. After all, I’ll need to impress the network.
So that’s it, then. I’ll be spending the next several hours sleeping, and I’ll get started on the big switch tomorrow. But I do want to personally thank each and every one of you who has ever stopped by to read what I had to say. I know I have bounced around a bit within the blogoshere, this will be my third “permanant” home since May of last year. So I’m asking you all one more time, and hopefully I won’t ever have to ask again. I look forward to building on the solid foundation that Joe has layed for me, won’t you all stop on by and check out the new Motor City Bengals?
Tags: Site News
February 3rd, 2010 at 8:20 pm
The best of luck to you John. I’m not familiar with MGB but I’ll gladly follow you over there. You’ve done a fine job these past 7 months. This blog and the former Fire Jim Leyland blog are the only ones I’ve really taken an interest in. The are so many Tiger blogs that it gets to be a bit too much to keep up with, which is why I concentrate on just a few. I’ll see you over at Motor City Bengals.
February 4th, 2010 at 2:29 pm
Thanks Bob, it’ll be good to see a familiar face. Er, screen name anyway.