A live baseball Chat Site

I have been in contact with Dean Collins over the last couple of days. He sent me some stuff about his new site http://www.Livebaseballchat.com/. I thought you would be interested in hearing about it and maybe taking a look. Here are some of the key aspects of the site. It is a very intersting concept, one that I have not seen before quite like this. Live Chat Concepts is the parent company formed to develop Live Chat Applications that can be scaled for large numbers of people to chat online while watching live sporting events. They have 12 websites and the same account username and password can be used for all of them. They have more websites that will be coming online over the next year and depending on what sport you are intersted in would be the website you would log into. You may ask well how does this work?? What can I do with this website?? That would be a good question, it is a free site that allows you to chat real time with other baseball fans during any of the thousands of MLB games that will go on this season. There is a dedicated chat room started for each game and it will go live 30 minutes before each pitch and go off 30 minutes after the last pitch. You can be a fan of any team this way and chat with other fans of that team from anywhere or just baseball fans in general watching that game. A question may be well I use twitter and get my news from there. The reason this site was started is because the owner loves to interact with friends during games. You can do that through twitter, facebook, IM but here you can do it with a bunch of people all at the same time. This allows fans of other teams also so there can be trash talking and good natured discussion. How is this different then the team forums?? It is different because usually after the games you get recaps from blogs or just the forum. The problem though is that during a game you have to keep refreshing and jumping around a lot with different posts and then the feeling of an actual conversation gets lost. The site is hoping to partner with a lot of team forums and blogs because it is a different functionality. It is simple to join just use any browser and go to http://www.livebaseballchat.com/ A username and password has to be registered but then that is all you have to do. There are no downloads and once finished you can go into the site and see the schedule of chats. An email can be sent that contains a chat room URL and go right to your twitter or facebook feed. It automatically will link to the chat room you are currently in. You can see who is in the room with you and get more information on them by clicking on their name. I really think this is a great site and will be participating in it myself. I would love to see more people hop aboard and try it out. It has the potential to get really big and I think a lot of connections can be made or just good friendships and discussion about the great game of baseball. If you have any questions please feel free to ask me or go on the site and contact Dean yourself.

Changes to the Blog

I haven't announced on here yet but now is the time. I am going to be covering the New York Yankees and New York Mets as a member of the press this season. I will be maintaining the blog like I always do but hope that this will enhance it. The games I will be doing you will know ahead of time and I plan on doing live blogging from the games I do attend. I hope that you guys will be more interactive with me and we can get a community going on here. I will have the game posts up and I hope this will lead to lots of discussion and maybe even debate. I welcome any and all comments but remember I do monitor so please refrain from abusive or derogatory language. If you have any other ideas to make this blog better please let me know also. My first game will be covering the Mets home opener on April 5th and I will also cover the Yankees home opener on April 13th. I can't wait to get started, I am hoping to put more pictures on here also to enhance the game stories. I think having the live blog posts and postgame reaction all directly from the games will enhance this blog and hopefully get people to come here and chat in the comments section. I will be on the computer throughout the days and nights of the games I am covering so don't be shy to write away and I will be responding. I thank you for all of your past, current and future support. I am looking forward to this experience and oppurtunity and can't wait to get started.

More Arod

I don't think this will be a well constructed piece of writing but I am going to write my thoughts here anyway. I would like to start by saying I find it funny that the one guy who is the most villified in the sport other then Pete Rose is the only guy who has been telling the truth the whole time. I will always believe any guy that Canseco ever says took steroids, he hasn't been wrong yet. This is obviously a huge story and it sucks that he is a Yankee and its distracting but nothing you can do about it now. I don't believe anymore that any of them didn't take steroids, I will be shocked when they actually didn't do it not when it comes out that they did. This SI story although I have to believe it's true does seem a little suspicious. Why did only 1 out of 104 names get leaked and why is it 4 unnamed sources, I want to know who these sources are? What if it comes out that it was just any Joe Shmoe and it isn't true, then what?? I do think that one of the problems is Arods silence, he is off in the bahamas somewhere contemplating his next move, I guess when he does speak that will answer a lot of questions. I hope if it is true then just come out and answer everything now and hope it goes away. I am thinking this may help guys like CC,AJ Tex because the pressure is off of them and oh btw I do love the fact that no one is discussing Clueless Joes book anymore, serves him right. Scott Boras did say that Arod will be issuing a statement soon enough but what does that mean, spring training starts this week, he needs to do this before then. I think I have rambled enough and im sorry for that but I just had to get my thoughts out. If anyone has any opinions or reaction to this please respond in the comments and I will answer them and also remember my live chat coming up this Friday, im sure we will be talking about this a lot.