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VEB Recurring Features

Hey, everybody,

I'm doing a little pre-VEB homework--so far I've read back through about two years of archives, and a little Redbird Nation for good measure--and I was wondering if I could get your input on something.

Specifically: what recurring features (particularly offseason stuff, for now) do you want to see back at VEB? The roster matrix is an obvious one, but I'd like to know what else is a must-have. I have some ideas for new stuff, and I'm sure houstoncardinal and RB do, too, but it'll be good to know what we should definitely keep. 

Any other general I-like-this-about-that commentary would be much appreciated, as well.

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definitely...

… keep notifying us whenever new projection systems come out. the community projections are fine, but i am more interested in PECOTA, CHONE, etc.

you’d probably do that anyway, but i always enjoyed LB’s parsing of those projections.

by kindred on Oct 2, 2008 1:09 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Hmm

community projections during spring, roster matrices of course, I beleive LB did a weekly farm update (not officially but in his bullet points) which even with FR is still nice to have, interviews with the FO, trading questions with other SB blogs, those are all things I like to see.

by StLHugo on Oct 2, 2008 1:14 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

+1

I enjoy the community projections as well. On that note it’s about time to compare our spring projections with the actuals.

by cardzfanbub on Oct 2, 2008 3:24 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Report cards

I also think it would be enjoyable if one of us went the way of AOL Funhouse and did ‘discussions’ between players and management, using their pressbox photos. Much like azru? did with Tony/Pineiro/Thompson a few weeks ago.

by Hardcore Legend on Oct 2, 2008 3:05 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

isn't alxfritz the master at this?

Or was it Liam? I can’t remember. A dedicated “humor” feature would be splendid (as long as it was actually funny).

Regarding the report cards, where has hinkster been lately? We need more Mo.

"All I am saying is give Freese a chance!" -- nmstar

by SleepyCA on Oct 2, 2008 3:54 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

One thing I like

as is obvious by now, is the playoff series open threads. It’s great baseball for great baseball fans. Drop in and talk about the game where we don’t have to get too upset if there’s a blown save.

I would also add, like others, the community projections for major players.

by chuckb on Oct 2, 2008 5:00 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

One more thing

we definitely need is an offseason, catch-all, hot stove league fanpost, even if it’s a new one each day. If we have people creating a new fanpost every time they have a new trade idea or want to sign this pitcher vs. that pitcher, good fanposts will be off the main screen within a day or two. We did this at the trade deadline and, I’m almost positive, last offseason as well.

If you can, help me remember how we handled that last offseason. Maybe a new one each day during the winter meetings and a new one each week at other times? Does that sound right?

by chuckb on Oct 2, 2008 5:42 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

With the new SB Nation site launched

We could launch a new Hot Stove catch-all once every two weeks as long as it stays below a certain number of comments and is put in the recommended fanposts section. The “Recommended Fanposts” section is new since last offseason and will make that transition easier.

I think if you labeled the Winter Meeting fanposts daily (like: Winter Meeting Hot Stove 12/5) that would help as well, so people can discuss the subjects of that particular day and know where to go to do it.

Just my 2 cents.

"I just wish that the late Harry Caray were still around so I could hear him mispronounce 'Kosuke Fukudome' every fukun' night" -- Dennis Miller

by fourstick on Oct 3, 2008 10:16 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

I think that's a great idea, fourstick

Very much what I’d like to do. It facilitates better discussion and doesn’t clog up up the fanposts.

by chuckb on Oct 3, 2008 10:59 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Out of curiosity

What determines how long a FanPost stays in the Recommended section? HL’s post about the Rays was getting fairly good traffic and it’s been knocked off while the one about “How good is LaRussa” is still up there?

Just curious.

Nothin'. A handful of nothin'. You stupid mullet head. He beat you with nothin'. Just like today when he kept comin' back at me......with nothin'.

Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.

by Tackle Box on Oct 3, 2008 1:13 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

it seems like the last ten written, period, are kept

and it doesn’t matter whether they’re recommended or not.

by Phizzle on Oct 4, 2008 9:51 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Like most of the above

I’d like to see a push for some interviews with some in the Cards org. Mo, Lud, Warner, Tony, Jose et all and see if we can start pooling around some questions to ask.

I really enjoyed the reads that Athletics Nation had with Beane and would like to see a push into trying to encourage talks with some of those figureheads in the Cards org.

I’d like to compare how some of the answers correlate with the Post’s articles/quotes. If they would do it.

I use statistics much as a drunken man uses lamp-posts – as support rather than illumination. - Andrew Lang

by AdjustedExpectations on Oct 2, 2008 5:52 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

I'd LITERALLY shit my pants if DanUp secured an interview with Tony LaRussa.

Nothin'. A handful of nothin'. You stupid mullet head. He beat you with nothin'. Just like today when he kept comin' back at me......with nothin'.

Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.

by Tackle Box on Oct 2, 2008 8:37 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

sadly, so would I

I mean, not your pants.

by DanUpBaby on Oct 2, 2008 9:08 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

HA!

Nothin'. A handful of nothin'. You stupid mullet head. He beat you with nothin'. Just like today when he kept comin' back at me......with nothin'.

Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.

by Tackle Box on Oct 2, 2008 9:29 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Five Questions

I think it was Fearless Leader Boros who visited with a teams’ SB nation bloggers for five questions when the Cardinals visited their city the first time each season.

It was always one of my favorite features.

Maybe a five questions segment with a current/former Cardinal players.

Every so often, something light and breezy, maybe even silly, lighten the mood from time to time…..

DanUp, you do KNOW that Chris Lambert made it to the majors with the Tigers? He didn’t do all that well, but he made it.

She isn't crazy, she's just not impressed.

by jillsinmo on Oct 2, 2008 11:12 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

that is a good feature

and some of the playoff teams’ sbnation blogs are doing that right now. It’d be a good thing to get going prior to next season for the other division teams, and before the Cards play in next year’s playoffs.

by chuckb on Oct 2, 2008 11:13 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Yeah,

definitely have something prepared like this before the Cards play in the playoffs next year.

Nothin'. A handful of nothin'. You stupid mullet head. He beat you with nothin'. Just like today when he kept comin' back at me......with nothin'.

Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.

by Tackle Box on Oct 3, 2008 9:12 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

RB does a good job of this

But I really like seeing the pre-draft stuff come out during the mid-point of the college season and what players the team should be looking at based on the drafting positions in each round.

The draft posts were some of my favorite stuff to read at the beginning of the year.

"I just wish that the late Harry Caray were still around so I could hear him mispronounce 'Kosuke Fukudome' every fukun' night" -- Dennis Miller

by fourstick on Oct 3, 2008 10:27 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

I'll be keeping on top of those once again, never fear.

In fact, the other day I was trying to decide just how soon I could get started on them, and was forced to (sadly), decide that mid October was just too early.

Victory is sweet, even deep in the cheap seats.

by the red baron on Oct 4, 2008 9:00 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

I agree with the braft preview, that was the best thing about last off-season.

I would also like to see Mo’s diary come back this off-season, that was awesome.

by stlzoot on Oct 3, 2008 11:36 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Definitely community projections

Fun for everyone… I also agree with others above encouraging you guys to keep going after interviews with people in the organization — and not just Moz and the folks in STL, mind you, but players and coaches/managers throughout the system. I really appreciated lboros’s interviews with folks like Dyar Miller and Adam Ottavino, etc.

by DCRedbird on Oct 3, 2008 3:31 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

i really liked the correspondence with other blogs and sbn nation sites

maybe ask some new people to participate in Q&A type stuff?
there ain’t really anything about VEB that’s broken, so try not to fix too much!

by mattybobo on Oct 3, 2008 3:47 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

My advice would be to use your own voice as much as possible

The content at Get Up, Baby is very good. Funny at times, analytical at times, and you started some great threads of reasoning. You singlehandedly made me much more appreciative of Ray Lankford.

If you keep that stuff up, and add a couple of obious things like the roster matrix, I don’t think you’ll have to worry about making your content too VeB-ey

They say that it's never too late, but you don't get any younger...

by Valatan on Oct 5, 2008 10:20 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

VEB demographics

First of all, I am looking forward to your posts, Danup. I just read the one you wrote today.

I know this is not a request for recurring feature, but would it be possible to do a study/survey of demographics on VEBers? I think there are some young ’ems like yourself, but there are many old timers also. And there are some really knowledgeable famale VEBers too. So the usual questions like percentages of male/female, or age, place of residence, etc… But maybe even some unique questions concerning when they started following the Cards, when they started blogging, amount of training in statistics, played and baseball?, number of games viewed per year, etc…

born Dodger blue, now dyed Cardinals red

by totalloser on Oct 6, 2008 6:37 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

I understand

the curiosity. But I think that SBNation might want to save that info for their advertisers.

by spants on Oct 7, 2008 1:03 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Just curiosity

But I can understand if SBNation doesn’t want us to discuss that info. I am getting a good thing for free here, and I certainly am not one to complain.

Finding the demographics, might actually strengthen the blog. I think we have a very diverse base, and it would neat to confirm that.

born Dodger blue, now dyed Cardinals red

by totalloser on Oct 7, 2008 5:05 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

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