Brock Beauchamp

Merry Christmas to all of you!

I don't fault guys for wanting to maximize their paydays; it's not as if owners are magnanimous with their wallets.

I'm wondering how much the market has really changed. There are some teams that are stable financially (for now) but a huge portion of the league is in revenue free fall. It *feels* like prices are absurd this offseason - and they are - but it's only a handful of teams that are participating in the madness. And more teams are going to fall victim to the RSN crash over time.

This is interesting. I don't fault Guerrero for setting a deadline but the opening of camp is somewhat surprising; many deals are wrapped up once the two sides meet face-to-face in spring. https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2024/12/vladimir-guerrero-jr-sets-spring-training-deadline-for-extension-talks-with-blue-jays.html He said the Jays are still way off on dollars, which are reportedly $340m. That's... a lot for a first baseman, who isn't even a good defensive first baseman. It's in the Jays' interests to retain Vladdy but what dollar number is a hard "no" for you?

It's a heavily-modified version of Invision Community. We've spent several years customizing and adding features specifically for baseball, like prospect voting, roster building, and other cool stuff.

Sure will.

Blue Jays Nest is not available or it would definitely be on the list.

Looks like people can only see the poll on desktop mode? Well that’s annoying. You’re all gonna love the platform we’re moving to.

Okay, I like the way that first round went, there were three choices that received the bulk of votes and a fourth added that several people - myself included - really like. So the new vote is your favorite choice and your backup choice (so vote for two!). I'll close this in a few days, possibly the 26th. Previous post explaining: First, I *hate* doing this. We try to avoid name changes and keep the original domain whenever possible. This is one of those "not possible" scenarios. We had to change the Brewers name as well because it was a .net domain. It sucks, I hate it. Second, BlueJaysMessageBoard.com will always direct to the forum of the site so bookmarks will continue to function. I need to look at the underlying code but I will also try to name the forum "Blue Jays Message Board" for continuity. But the site is going to get bigger... a lot bigger. And "Message Board" is only a small part of what we're going to be doing going forward. I'm going to make a decision pretty quickly about this because our senior developer is nipping at my heels about this particular task. I'm going to put this to a vote but there are extenuating circumstances that may cause me to choose the second or third option instead of the first. It depends on some pending research I'm doing into social media channels, SEO strength, and other stuff. Because continuity is important to me, I found a thread from WAY BACK on this forum about the original name and pulled some of the options that received votes in that 2013 poll. Unfortunately, most of the names I really liked are no longer available. Bummer. So choose from some of these options. If you have opinions you'd like to share, give 'em here. I'll listen to everyone, though I cannot promise how/why I will ultimately make a decision. Naming a site is like juggling 50 balls at once and 46 of them are invisible to everyone else. I have a ton of factors I need to weigh in that aren't obvious to outside observers.

Hah. Okay then. Part of the reason I never reached out to anyone there is because the vibes of that place never sat well with me. There are loads of baseball communities I've ignored over the years because I either find the team distasteful or the community is just effing toxic.

Okay, I like Jays Centre quite a bit. I checked and both Jays Centre and Jays Center are available, which is important because we'd need to buy both and redirect Center to Centre. I'm going to close this thread either later tonight or tomorrow with a narrowed down list and then allow everyone to vote for one.

One of the first I looked into, wildly unavailable on pretty much every level.

Nest is one of my favorites but unfortunately it is not available.

lol

First, I *hate* doing this. We try to avoid name changes and keep the original domain whenever possible. This is one of those "not possible" scenarios. We had to change the Brewers name as well because it was a .net domain. It sucks, I hate it. Second, BlueJaysMessageBoard.com will always direct to the forum of the site so bookmarks will continue to function. I need to look at the underlying code but I will also try to name the forum "Blue Jays Message Board" for continuity. But the site is going to get bigger... a lot bigger. And "Message Board" is only a small part of what we're going to be doing going forward. I'm going to make a decision pretty quickly about this because our senior developer is nipping at my heels about this particular task. I'm going to put this to a vote but there are extenuating circumstances that may cause me to choose the second or third option instead of the first. It depends on some pending research I'm doing into social media channels, SEO strength, and other stuff. Because continuity is important to me, I found a thread from WAY BACK on this forum about the original name and pulled some of the options that received votes in that 2013 poll. Unfortunately, most of the names I really liked are no longer available. Bummer. So choose from some of these options. If you have opinions you'd like to share, give 'em here. I'll listen to everyone, though I cannot promise how/why I will ultimately make a decision. Naming a site is like juggling 50 balls at once and 46 of them are invisible to everyone else. I have a ton of factors I need to weigh in that aren't obvious to outside observers.

Can we stay on topic without harassing one another, please? kthx

I forgot to mention: one of our core beliefs is that we don't ask people to do things for free. We pay per article, though in the beginning it's not much, about $10 USD.

Like Twins Daily, we'll have a fully functionally front page starting in early- to mid-January. We'll be looking to bring on some writers (we already have a few lined up and several in talks). We tend to skew more toward analytical approaches but are far from limited in our scope. We also do regular historical features and all sorts of other stuff. If it interests you, it probably interests other Jays fans, too. So if you're interested in trying your hand at writing analysis, please reach out to me via PM.

IN THEORY, the site shouldn't be down too long tomorrow. Maybe 60-90 minutes if things go right?* *things never go right

I'm going to try to move the site over to my personal server later this week. This is a temporary server, just one I have sitting idle. The site *should* be fine speed-wise but the server hasn't been used in so long there might be hiccups. Some time just after new years, the site will go down for most of a day (probably a Sunday) as we port it to a new platform and put it on our Amazon-hosted services. Edit: I bumped this back because I think that when I move the site, I'll also change the name based on your votes.

Thanks for the warm welcome, everyone!

I've followed that site for awhile but haven't approached it in any way. Out of curiosity, what don't you like about it?

Heheheh. On the Twins site, we once banned the head of analytics for the team and another time the former mayor of Minneapolis because we thought they were creating troll accounts.

Oh, I was laughing my ass off when I saw that reply. No harm, no foul. It was funny.

Hi everybody, my name is Brock Beauchamp and I'm part of an ownership group called DiamondCentric. As you may be able to guess from the name, we only do baseball (or at least I only do baseball). I'm one of the people who founded TwinsDaily.com about a dozen years ago. As we built that into a really large super-site, my interest in the Twins actually began to wane a bit. I'm still a fan but given that I've lived in many different states in the US, I wanted to explore other fandoms. That led to me buying BrewerFanatic.com, which was a forum much like this one. Over the past three years, we've built it into a really cool place for Brewers fans to hang out. On top of basic forums to discuss the team, we offer tools to create your own offseason plan, our community votes on prospects to help us build our top prospects rankings, we offer user blogs to all users to practice their own writing and get in front of other fans, and a bunch of other features. We will roll out front page articles/analysis from some *really* good writers. Our managing editor is a FanGraphs alum, Davy Andrews. He's great, you're gonna love his stuff. One of my favorite parts of the site is the Players Project. It's a wiki-style platform where users can create and edit pages for their favorite players. The Minnesota Twins Players Project - Twins Daily TWINSDAILY.COM One thing I want to stress is that I wanted this community because of all of you. These older team-specific legacy communities have a hard time staying afloat against Twitter, Reddit, et al that tend to squash the little guys. My goal is to prevent that from happening and keep sites like this with their 10+ years of posts and users available for years to come. So we'll be talking. A LOT. Because you all make this place great and all of you should have your fingerprints on the site and influence how/why decisions are made. In a nutshell, I view myself as the anti-SB Nation. Each site is different with its own personality. All of you make the site what it is and your feedback is really important to making sure the site runs the best it can. I'm looking forward to getting to know all of you in the coming weeks!