Welcome Yahoo! Users

by Ryan on Feb 25, 2009 12:58 AM EST in News

Starting today, Yahoo Sports audiences have one-click access to SB Nation blogs, including Let's Go Tribe. The Indians page on Yahoo Sports now has a Let's Go Tribe portal, including direct links to the latest front page stories on LGT.

So if everything's working correctly, many of you reading this post are first-time visitors to this site. To those that are, welcome: you've found the most vibrant community of Indians fans on the Internet. If you're looking for excellent Indians analysis, you've found just the place. If you're looking for a great place to talk Tribe, you've also found the perfect spot.

But before you dive in, I'd suggest you do a couple things first.

1. Please read the Ground Rules. Any successful community, whether it be in real life or on the Internet, needs to abide by basic rules in order to function, and Let's Go Tribe is no different. We take these rules seriously, and moderate violations of them quickly and consistently.

2. Don't post right away. No, I'm not crazy. Let's Go Tribe is a bit different than other places you might have been in the past, and while I think that's a very good thing, you'll enjoy yourself much better if you start by reading archived posts and user comments. Once you've gotten a feel for the atmosphere here, then by all means start commenting in reponse to front page stories, game threads, FanPosts (user-created stories), or FanShots (links, pictures, video).

If you have any questions about this site, including navigation issues, the Ground Rules, or anything else, please feel free to contact me (Ryan), Jay, Adam, or Andrew; our contact information can be found at the bottom of the page.

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so, i’m seeing your transactions post as the first offering. i presume there’s some delay.

by Brick. on Feb 25, 2009 1:17 AM EST reply actions

Yeah, I think there’s somewhat of a delay.

by Ryan on Feb 25, 2009 1:33 AM EST up reply actions

aaaaand, there it is.

by Ryan on Feb 25, 2009 1:37 AM EST up reply actions

I like how Hey Jaysie is going to be one of the first things they see.

"Lotta heart in Cleveland." - Ian Hunter

by Denver Tribe Fan on Feb 25, 2009 1:34 AM EST reply actions

That should go a long way toward clarifying Ryan’s comment about how LGT is “different” from some other blogs.

"It's hard to win when you don't score." Cliff Lee, 9/28/05.

by Harry Doyle on Feb 25, 2009 9:11 AM EST up reply actions

So this is really good for SB nation, right? Recognized by Yahoo, and it’s writers are getting recruited to other mainstream publications – SB has done pretty well for itself.

by joeee on Feb 25, 2009 1:51 AM EST reply actions

I’ve heard that Yahoo! Sports gets more impressions than ESPN.com. Is that true?

by JulioBernazard on Feb 25, 2009 10:11 AM EST up reply actions

I heart Yahoo! Sports. Not really for any of their analysis, but when I want a quick glance at a box score or standings in any sport, their site is always one of the most updated and cleanest looking around. I also like how easy it is to get split stats from them.

by Ryan Kelsey on Feb 25, 2009 10:18 AM EST up reply actions

Really? I don’t think I’ve ever used Yahoo Sports, other than if they have an interesting article on my Yahoo homepage that I look at. I always use espn.com for box scores and standings. I like how they’ve updated it so on the top of their homepage you can easily click the box score for any game that day. But I’ll have to check out Yahoo to see if it’s better.

The best thing probably is to hit [Grady] 2nd -- Jay

by Buckeye Brad on Feb 25, 2009 10:55 AM EST up reply actions

Yeah, its mainly because its cleaner. ESPN has so much junk going on that even on a decent connection and computer it takes a minute to load. It is also so cluttered. I will say I haven’t done much with ESPN since they’ve changed their look.

by Ryan Kelsey on Feb 25, 2009 1:12 PM EST up reply actions

The new ESPN look is corn-fusing. (Maybe I was used to the old layout.)

by JulioBernazard on Feb 25, 2009 1:57 PM EST up reply actions

as I said recently, i think ever re-design of espn.com has made it worse. the most recent one is especially egregious.

by APV on Feb 25, 2009 5:29 PM EST up reply actions

between MLBN and…. the rest of the internet…. ESPN is becoming obsolete for baseball fans. Once Peter Gammons retires, they may as well, just ditch covering baseball at all and focus on all they care about – the NFL, Kobe Bryant and Tiger Woods.

by Brick. on Feb 25, 2009 5:35 PM EST up reply actions

all they care about – the ~~NFL, Kobe Bryant~~ The Yankees, Eagles, Cowboys, the city of Boston, Duke and Tiger Woods.

fixed.

by Ryan Kelsey on Feb 25, 2009 5:46 PM EST up reply actions

What about Rob Neyer? I read him every day.

by Buckeye Brad on Feb 25, 2009 9:21 PM EST up reply actions

leave me to my hyperbole.

by Brick. on Feb 26, 2009 10:41 AM EST up reply actions

If I’m logging on looking for a quick box score or standings, I’ve always gone with Yahoo! over ESPN -it’s much simpler and easier to navigate.

by Ryan on Feb 25, 2009 1:47 PM EST up reply actions

concur.

by Brick. on Feb 25, 2009 4:07 PM EST up reply actions

agree.

by supermarioelia on Feb 25, 2009 5:28 PM EST up reply actions

That’s our understanding, that Yahoo! Sports is in fact the most heavily trafficked sports site on the Internet.

Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.

by Jay on Feb 25, 2009 11:46 AM EST up reply actions

I find that really surprising/impressive. I wonder how much of that is due to layout, how much is due to content, and how much is residual traffic from people already being on Yahoo! (for fantasy sports, for instance — the main, er.. only reason I ever navigate to Yahoo!).

Why hasn’t Google gotten into the fantasy game yet?

by JulioBernazard on Feb 25, 2009 2:00 PM EST up reply actions

fantasy football through yahoo is light years better than espn. i bet this drives a lot of the traffic, because its a multiple daily check during football season

by Roger Dorn on Feb 25, 2009 2:29 PM EST up reply actions

Right, I’ll bet much of the traffic is from fantasty sports. Also through links from the Yahoo homepages, since many people use their email. As I said, that’s the only way I’ve ever used Yahoo sports.

by Buckeye Brad on Feb 25, 2009 3:17 PM EST up reply actions

Did a baseball draft through CBS Sportsline, and it was a horrid experience. I only use Y! for fantasy sports of any kind.

by JulioBernazard on Feb 25, 2009 3:23 PM EST up reply actions

I hope this means I get to meet Dan Wetzel .. he’s so dreamy.

by Toxicadam on Feb 25, 2009 1:57 AM EST reply actions

That’s a lot of pressure for a spring training gamethread.

Though I look right at home, I still feel like an exile

by Manhattan Tribe Fan on Feb 25, 2009 7:57 AM EST reply actions

In the words of Max Fischer, “I’m no elitist.” But I can’t get really excited about this.

I fear for the near future of LGT and expect the ground rules to get trampled on a bit.

by PatBordersHelmet on Feb 25, 2009 8:19 AM EST reply actions

You’re not going to like next week’s announcement that we are merging with Cleveland.com.

by Toxicadam on Feb 25, 2009 9:03 AM EST up reply actions 7 recs

Serious lol

"It's hard to win when you don't score." Cliff Lee, 9/28/05.

by Harry Doyle on Feb 25, 2009 9:07 AM EST up reply actions

and expect the ground rules to get trampled on a bit.

Not going to happen.

by Ryan on Feb 25, 2009 9:10 AM EST up reply actions

Good luck with that. I’m assuming the four of you plan on doing more policing?

Don’t get me wrong, I congratulate you guys on your success in creating one of the best SBN blogs out there. This is your baby, and it’s healthy growth is due in large part to the hard work you and Jay have done fostering intelligent—if not witty—discourse. I read the blog for a year before I ever considered joining and posting. I just think that I preferred the quality of posts over the forthcoming quantity.

by PatBordersHelmet on Feb 25, 2009 9:44 AM EST up reply actions

four of you

Key phrase.

"Less of an Indians fan" - Jay

by Voltaire on Feb 25, 2009 11:16 AM EST up reply actions

I’m thinking lots of subject line use at the very least.

"Lotta heart in Cleveland." - Ian Hunter

by Denver Tribe Fan on Feb 25, 2009 11:52 AM EST up reply actions

new ground rule: if each of your first 5 posts uses the subject line, you’re outta here.

Travis Hafner is overrated. Clarity is underrated. David Dellucci is David Dellucci.

by westbrook on Feb 25, 2009 1:35 PM EST up reply actions

In the words of Max Fischer, "I’m no elitist." But I can’t get really excited about this.

I fear for the near future of LGT and expect the ground rules to get trampled on a bit.

That’s been an ongoing fear since the first big flood of new traffic happened with the Crisp/Marte trade. We already have 10x the traffic that we had at that point, and while the community is larger and not exactly the same, it’s still a pretty cool place. There’s just, you know, more than 20 people here now. Will this new tie-in send us over some tipping point, where all the growth to this point has worked out okay but this growth won’t? Of course that’s possible. But we’ll roll with it and adjust.

We’ve been doing this for about 40 months now, and I feel we’ve handled what’s been thrown at us pretty well on the whole. Now bolstered by Adam and Andrew, I’m not particularly worried that we’ll handle this, too.

Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.

by Jay on Feb 25, 2009 11:54 AM EST up reply actions

If it gets too busy, you could always go all LGT Premium on us.

"Lotta heart in Cleveland." - Ian Hunter

by Denver Tribe Fan on Feb 25, 2009 12:39 PM EST up reply actions

I, for one, welcome our new Yahoo overlords!

You know Selig? Ombudsman.

by rolub on Feb 25, 2009 9:56 AM EST reply actions 1 recs

Overlords? No.

They’re sending us traffic. We’re classing up their pages by letting them feature a solid, established baseball blog, including Game Threads, rather than a hodge-podge amalgamation of RSS feeds of various blogs of various quality.

One of the great opportunities — and great challenges — is that people will be able to jump directly from the Yahoo! live box score page into our Game Thread (or the other team’s blog’s Game Thread). This is in contrast to other sites like Sportsline, where they’re attempting to cultivate their own Game Thread situation.

Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.

by Jay on Feb 25, 2009 11:50 AM EST up reply actions