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Where the hell did the Twins get money from? $12M for Nolasco $8 for Hughes. Wow I jus trealized they have a pretty brutal team.

Apologize for what?

ECJF made a good point, comment on the articles, it will get more people involved and they will leave comments too. I'm going to try and get us listed through Google News soon, and they will be doing a manual review of the site, so if they see comments and an active blog, it'll only help us.

Hello, let's not do any more of these polls after this one. I was going to save this for after winter meetings. I think maybe to get it more attention we'll put the poll on the main board, than the discussion can be in this forum.

Finally, I've emailed twice askign for a shout out!

Or on twitter

JayS Fan Rearrange the bold letters

Good idea, and read the post wrong at first and didn't know what the hell he was talking about. We already have one in the works already. But I'll try and get some more.

We are pretty full at the moment. I posted on the main board twice looking for authors, and it got very little interest.

I'll have to look into it. But for 100-200 word posts it'll probably take up too much room and overpower the article anyways.

Add a picture and tags. I made it step by step for this purpose. Good work though, keep an eye out for the small errors. It'll become easier. I replied to that tweet too, said it's his first post we'll cut him some slack. Let's go GD, we can't be called out like that lol. Leave it for someone to edit if you have to. Edit Just cleaned the other posts up to keep it clean for the other guys who haven't written yet so they don't have to sift through everything.

FYI you're not leaving!

We have four new writers. Terminator. These will be featured articles, as they will be 2-4 times per month. When selecting categories, check off featured and any other relevant category. KingKat. KK will be doing book reviews every few weeks. I will be adding a new book review category. Since there will only be one every few weeks, this will also be featured, so "featured" and "book reviews" will be selected. You will see when you make a post that below the area, there is a star rating system. You can rate the book out of four stars. Sadly I don't know if the system allows half stars. If that's the case, I could always upload different star images that you can add to the beginning of the article for the rating. DDG will be doing a daily recap. Some days there will be absolute nothing to recap, so there's no point in doing one. Or if there's one piece of news and GordieDougie (GD) covers it, there's no point on creating a new post. During the season you can also do game recaps as well in there. Follow guys on twitter, follow DJF, they always keep up to date on Jays stuff. THese will not be featured articles as they will be too frequent. You will check off the appropriate categories, news, rumors, etc. Check what was posted for the day, see if there is any point in doing a daily recap. If there's something like a couple rumors, an ex Jay signed somewhere and/or AA spoke to media, then cover it. We just want to make sure we're adding posts that don't need to be added because it was already posted. GD will be doing breaking news, rumors, anything Jays related as it happens. AA gives an interview, he will recap it. etc etc. GD is busy during the day, so if I'm around or if anyone is around and something big breaks, whoever is around can post it. You'll see in the "posts" section that someone has begun writing about it. We want to get these up as quick as possible as we want people to check our site for breaking news. But even if they're up within a couple hours, it still benefits the website. ANd GD make sure you check to make sure the news wasn't posted, especially if it's something big and one of us covered. Smaller news I might post during the day if I'm around and you haven't posted it yet. As I've mentioned before, everyone here wants the absolute highest quality. I don't want to be an *******, but if you can't keep up to the standards set by the current writers already, we will have to deal with it. Last thing I want is for this blog to take a quality hit with all the momentum it is gaining. We have editors looking over your work, so small spelling mistakes and grammar aren't a big deal, but if half your articles need to be re-written, it's going to be an issue. I dont' expect it to be a problem, especially with your backgrounds, but I just want to put it out there. Posting When posting you log into www.breakingblue.ca/wp-admin/ with your user and password. You can change your password when you're in there. As per my private messages, add a bio or send it to me and I can add it. Under "Posts" you're going to "add new". You're going to pick a relevant title. DDG NJH used "Seed" for his recap he did. You can do something like "Toronto Blue Jays Daily Seed Nov 27" or something like that. Something that you can repeat, but something that does have something to differentiate it. Now when you pick a title it will automatically create the page name using your title. If you're title is excessively long, go and edit the page name and make it shorter for search engines. ie. Toronto Blue Jays Are Looking At Catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia and AJ Pierzynski That's going to be a page called: Toronto-Blue-Jays-Are-Looking-At-Catcher-Jarrod-Saltalamacchia-and-AJ-Pierzynski Although we want to have important keywords in the URL, that's just too long, you could change it to something like Blue-Jays-Looking-At-Satlalamacchia-Pierzynski That's still ab it long, but it's not too bad. Gets important keywords in there. After that you write your article. You can add pictures with "add media". You can write in "Visual" or "text" When you write in text, it's more so the actual coding of the webpage. Where visual is more so how it will look. If using a block quote, this is the codign we are doing, as it looks nicer: {quote type="center"}content{/quote} Replace brackets with square brackets. You can add tables as well, but I dont' think any of you guys will need to add tables to articles. KK may want to add a butt, you can see the green and blue icon. That will allow you to add a cool button if you want to link where to buy the book you are reviewing. There is also a button for adding links to your articles. Most you guys will have to use that. You can just type int he Keyword you want to use, ie Ken Rosenthal, then you highlight the word, and click the chain link icon. You can then enter the URL of the link you are adding, leave title blank. You can see there is also an ordered list and unordered list. Now if you want headers, first make sure you can see all the options. If you put shift+alt+z, it will hide remove all options. So you'll see if you are already viewing them all or not. When you want a header, simply make it in the article, then with your cursor beside the header, click the drop down menu that says "Paragraph" and change it to Heading 2. H1 is for page title, so use heading 2. After that, on the righ side you select categories. Below categories you add tags. Tags are for when people search the site. So if you tag bautista, and when peole search for him through our site, your article will show up. Usually 3-4 will do. And below that "Set Featured Image". Every single article needs a featured image because it gets added to the front page. So find a relevant image online, download it to yoru computer. Then you will upload it thorugh this option. Make sure you enter a "Alt Tag" this will be a short title of what it is ie "Jarrod Saltalamacchia". And that's it. At the top right you can change status to "Pending Review" if you want someone to edit it. Or youc an save it as draft if you want to come back to it, or you can publish. You can also priview before you publish it to make sure it looks good. You can also schedule it to be posted too. DDG could schedule to be released at 8AM if you want, or we could do do like 9PM, and stick to the same time everyday. Kinkat could also delay his article by a day or two if there's a lot of content that was released in the current day. Most of you guys need to release the info quickly, so if you're comfortable with it, you can just publish it, and you can post in the communication thread if you want someone to give it a quick read over. Someone probably will anyways, but if you post it will be quicker and certain. BTS is going to be doing editing as well. That's about it. You guys can play around with that, and do some test articles. Don't publish. Just save as draft, and you can preview it, and I can take a look and make sure you're doing everything properly. Post here if you have any questions.

For reference NJH/Nik - Feature writer Ace/Allan - Feature writer Jfas/Chris - Feature writer Kingkat/Andre - Book reviews (not started) DDG/Thomas - Daily recaps (not started) Gordie/Jacob - Breaking News, Rumors etc (not started) Admin/Tyler - Daytime Breaking News Terminator - Semi-Feature Writer (2-4 posts per month) BTS - Editor

I defended this theory for ten years, going back to when Zaun was our catcher. He didn't have the best arm, but he had some of the slowest delivery guys in the league. Can't remember the rotation now, but I think AJ Burnett was one.

I've disagreed with him on things, but props to him for the shout out. A lot of respect for that.

Yeah I know, but isn't that supposed to be a whole different monster?

Probably split both, same with NHL, so pretty much everyone has to buy SN1 as an addon. s***, SN2 wouldn't surprise me.

Story time. I hope jfas doesn't mind me telling it. It may just be a huge coincidence, but here goes. I've been really excited for jfas with the quality of jfas' articles and the attention he has received from the community. Well without telling him, I sent an email out to AA this morning, telling him about jfas, and saying this is the type of kid they need in the organization, dont let this kid slip by. etc etc. Well jfas just posted amoung(sp?) the writers that he was contacted by the Jays, asking him to apply for a position! May be a crazy coincidence, but it's pretty cool nonethless. However, jfas is determined to finish his degree, so he is going to pass, which you have to respect. So now I'm emailing AA about JPA! jk lol

Too be honest, you're going to have an extremely hard time getting 30 people to remain interested in this for more than a week. Too many will probably lose interest rather quick. That being said there are well over 30 active members as North pointed out. As offseason gets going activiity will increase more and more. That being said, let's not post this in this thread. Start a new one if you want to discuss it and see who is interested.

Because there was an error in the board and new people couldn't sign up lol.

I need to set you guys up with emails actually. They can even just forward to your poersonal accounts.

ECJF, guaranteed, we get Bruce Chen.

I'd probably reply and take the job. Until I got fired ten minutes after I arrived.

Dave Cameron just tweeted the Dickey Effect on Fangraphs as well.