Partner Sites

[Ulice Payne]

I followed the link to https://fishonfirst.com/ and it looks like a nice site.

 

So far, I'm aware of sites for the Brewers, Twins, Cubs, and now the Marlins.  Are there any others?

 

Do you have plans to make a site for each team?  Any thought of site users being universal across all team sites, or might that be inviting too much trolling?

 

A central hub uniting sites for all teams would be nice, like the old ESPN boards of the 90's that brewerfan.net sprang from.

 

Nice to see you expanding.  Keep up the good work. 

[Brock Beauchamp]

1 hour ago, Ulice Payne said:

I followed the link to https://fishonfirst.com/ and it looks like a nice site.

So far, I'm aware of sites for the Brewers, Twins, Cubs, and now the Marlins.  Are there any others?

Do you have plans to make a site for each team?  Any thought of site users being universal across all team sites, or might that be inviting too much trolling?

A central hub uniting sites for all teams would be nice, like the old ESPN boards of the 90's that brewerfan.net sprang from.

Nice to see you expanding.  Keep up the good work. 

We own the Twins and Cubs sites along with this one.

Fish On First is our first partner site. Ely Sussman - he does great work over there - owns the site and runs content. He's far more capable in that role than any of us could be. We provide tech, support, and assistance where needed.

Personally, I have no interest in running a site for all teams. I'm a Twins and Brewers fan. I'm also a Padres fan, would love to start a site for San Diego. The Cubs site was borne out of Matt Trueblood's fandom. We may start other sites but only if the right opportunity arrives and we can find someone passionate about the team to have a stake in its success. I never want to become SB Nation; I've seen the way they treat their content creators and the top-down approach they take. We want impassioned people at the helm of each site and we want them to be rewarded as we grow. That approach takes time and selectivity in our decisions.

We try to isolate the sites due to trolling. We want people invested in the Brewers on this site and to foster a Brewers-centric place without aggravation. So I don't foresee us doing much in the way of integration beyond the occasional link-sharing or cross-writing. For example, should the Brewers and Twins make a trade, we'd probably swap writers on sites to write up the players coming from each team, rarely more than that.