Showing Love, parts 1 & 2
by S.F. Giangst
on May 6, 2008 7:20 AM PDT
Parte Une:
You have to admit that Baseball-Reference is one of the very best websites there is for statistics. You have to or I'll come to your house. You don't want that.
There are sites with more specialized, high-end sabe calculations, but for general purposes B-R takes the cake when stacked up against the Yahoos and Sportslines and MLB.com-in-your-mouths.
The internet is a tough neighborhood and it's hard to stand out in the search results especially on Google. If you don't know already, the algorithm that determines how search results are ordered is highly complex, but one of its key components is how many other sites link to a given site or page.
Why care? Sean Forman, the guy who runs B-R.com, strikes me as being the real deal, passionate about baseball and accuracy and trying to keep a good service in front of the user. And it's annoying as hell to want a player's page off B-R and have to scroll through the crap results of junky sites in Google to find it.
Yeah you can go to the B-R home page and search or browse, yeah you can install the B-R search plugin for Firefox... But a quick Google search is how I roll and so do a lot of other people.
So? So, if everybody who blogs or posts would just for a month or two make a point of hyperlinking to a player's page on B-R (particularly new and obscure players) the first time you mention him in a post (example to follow) pretty soon Google would start ranking that player page at the top.
Not only does it make it easier to search, but there's a knock-on effect: more new fans and new internet users will find out about B-R.com, B-R.com will get more traffic, get more money for their ad placements and Sean in turn will reinvest it in the site (he's got a very good history of that.)
Yeah, B-R.com is a business but it's not an evil one. Sean's always struck me as a decent dude and we can help ourselves and help him at the same time. I'm not Sean Forman and I've never met him. It just seems to make sense a/k/a enlightened self interest.
Pass this note or I'll kick your ass after gym.
Parte Deux:
I hereby declare my manlove for Fred Lewis and I'm giving him my sig virginity.
Baby don't hurt me.
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I proposed the idea of sponsoring pages of Giants prospects on BR in the name of SF Dugout. For just pennies a day we could be supporting no-name prospects that nobody but us geeks care about.
"While conservatives tell you 'leave things alone and no one will lose,' and liberals tell you 'interfere a lot and no one will lose,' baseball says 'someone will lose.' Not only says it - but insists upon it! ... Democracy is lovely, but baseball's more mature." BVCE supports SF Dugout and Manny Burriss.
by BaronVonCurrentEvents on
May 6, 2008 8:08 AM PDT
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I particularly like that you can make a funny comment when you sponsor a page
Just check out Marvin Benard’s page. I stumbled across that page by accident. I literally LOL’d when I first saw that.
by out machine on
May 6, 2008 9:32 AM PDT
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Yeah, that’s nice.
If you like things that are funny, perhaps you will enjoy ChatterBalks Dot Com?
by groug on
May 6, 2008 1:11 PM PDT
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I would sponsor
my Adopted Son, but you can’t sponsor MiLB players.
He started a little slow this year, but the kid has played five positions fer chr*st sakes. Apparently the Giants are using the Kevin Frandsen “plan” with him :-)
My adopted son Matt Downs. Bill Mueller without the two-flap helmet .
by nvsfg on
May 6, 2008 10:46 AM PDT
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I'm more afraid, NV
... that they’re using the Eugenio Velez Plan with Matt. Wow; let him play one position for a change!
Your 2011 SF Giants: the 2008 Augusta Greenjackets!
by Lyle on
May 6, 2008 1:59 PM PDT
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Perhaps you could instructions on how to do this?
I know it is not difficult but I have never memorized html and always have to reference things. I am guessing there are a fair number of people here (probably the majority) who do not know this magic secret.
Not a big slam but: what are you thinking? You ask people to do something but do not give direction in your post? You think everyone can just magically figure out how to do it?
http://www.baseball-reference.com/b/bondsba01.shtml
Oh noes! It’s not linked properly. I checked and don’t see a special “create hyperlink” thingy at BR so we will have to do the HTML. Let’s try:
HREF=”http://www.baseball-reference.com/b/bondsba01.shtml”>Barry BondsThat should work.
Ok folks, this is how you do it:
1 – find your link, url, whatever you want to call it.
2 – type out “HREF=”http://www.baseball-reference.com/b/bondsba01.shtml”>Barry Bonds” The url goes in the obvious spot at the beginning, the name i nthat second area.
3 – profit!
by positiveuphemism on
May 6, 2008 11:14 AM PDT
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and it didn't work.
fuck. i know i’m close
by positiveuphemism on
May 6, 2008 11:15 AM PDT
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got it that time
Still…Please give instruction if you want people to do this.
by positiveuphemism on
May 6, 2008 11:21 AM PDT
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Ryan Paul: Two four-letter words are better than one.
by The Enchanter on
May 6, 2008 11:53 AM PDT
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How it works
<a href=”http://www.baseball-reference.com/d/durhara01.shtml”>Ray Durham</a>That gets you this: Ray Durham
by Natto on
May 6, 2008 12:18 PM PDT
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Personal Preference
but if you add
target=_blank
after the .shtml, the link will open in a new “tab’ (or page if that’s how you roll)
Example: Ray Durham (Pops in a new window)
My adopted son Matt Downs. Bill Mueller without the two-flap helmet .
by nvsfg on
May 6, 2008 2:30 PM PDT
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I prefer just..
Hitting the link button in the formatting here.
The Basil Fawlty Moderating Strategy:
"We could run a nice blog here if we didn't have all these members getting in the way."
by WalrusMan on
May 6, 2008 10:14 PM PDT
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According to BR I made that guy up.
Aaron "Swag" Rowand
by victor frankenstein on
May 6, 2008 1:38 PM PDT
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Sounds like a plan
I hope I’ve successfully modified my .sig so that it points to Victor’s and my adoptee.
I’ve sponsored the Robb Nen page for quite some time now.
Proud member of the Adopt-a-Giant program (Aaron Rowand)
by antinous on
May 6, 2008 2:00 PM PDT
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“He sacrificed his career trying to bring a championship to San Francisco. We will always appreciate his skill, intensity, and dedication.”
Very well said.
"I been waitin' a long time for this! I been waitin' since the f**kin' amateurs!" --WILL "THE THRILL" CLARK
by Josh from Hollywood on
May 6, 2008 2:19 PM PDT
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Am I the only one
prepared to show the love?
Your 2011 SF Giants: the 2008 Augusta Greenjackets!
by Lyle on
May 6, 2008 2:10 PM PDT
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Bad memories, man.
Bad freakin’ memories. (3+ year old McC link FTW!)
"I been waitin' a long time for this! I been waitin' since the f**kin' amateurs!" --WILL "THE THRILL" CLARK
by Josh from Hollywood on
May 6, 2008 2:41 PM PDT
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Lyle....
I just ate man ! In case anyone else needs this :-)
My adopted son Matt Downs. Bill Mueller without the two-flap helmet .
by nvsfg on
May 6, 2008 2:16 PM PDT
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You're lucky
...that was just about the most-clothed picture I could find on a Google search. Inhibited, she ain’t.
Your 2011 SF Giants: the 2008 Augusta Greenjackets!
by Lyle on
May 6, 2008 3:58 PM PDT
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Kidnapper!!!
What is the punishment for child abduction around here, cause ‘Lil Freddie is my boy! I legally adopted him (http://bluwiki.com/go/Have_been_adopted), so I suggest you change your sig before my son breaks your legs.
Oh, by the way, fangraphs.com is way better than br.com.
Go Fred Lewis... You're better than the alternative... Yippee...
by Uribe nee Gonzalez on
May 6, 2008 10:05 PM PDT
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a lot of giants' pages available for sponsoring
over at b-r.com. $how the love.
Adopted papa of a bouncing new waiver wire 27 year old. Castillo hits doubles.
by kennv on
May 7, 2008 7:30 AM PDT
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