Welcome to attempt #47 at getting the Rooftop Report site going again. This time means business.
A couple notes to get us started:
1. If you don’t follow these three people on Twitter, you are doing Twitter/Baseball wrong:
@joe_sheehan
@keithlaw
@jazayerli
There are many more, but if you are on twitter, and not following those, you are going to probably hate my site. I am a homeless man version of those people. Top Chef, board games, Middle Eastern politics, baseball, other sports, and Chicago love included. I am only missing the dentistry.
2. I am on the following baseball sites all the time:
Baseball Reference
Fan Graphs
Baseball Prospectus
Baseball America
MLB Trade Rumors
Cot’s Baseball Contracts (now part of Baseball Prospectus, but deserves its own shout out – – do people still say that?)
Again, there are more, mostly Cub specific, but that will be for another post.
3. I love bullet points, numbering, etc. Or, I hate transitions. Either way, it leads to posts like this.
4. So far, I love what Theo Epstein is doing. If you don’t have value in 2015, and have perceived value in the market, you are going to be used to gain that value. If you don’t have value in 2015, or perceived value in the market, we will keep you to create perceived value. If you don’t have value in 2015, perceived value, or any ability to create perceived value, we will eat the crap out of your contract and make sure you don’t drag the team down. Works for me. The theme being, this team won’t be relevant until at least 2015. Maybe 2014, if all the other teams in the division continues to lose the best player on their team every year.
5. I have had this site for over 10 years. At one point, people actually even read it. That was when I was 21, lived three blocks from Wrigley, and blogged all the time. I can’t make the first two happen now (sorry), but I will try my damnedest to accomplish the third.
6. Insert explicit tag here. I don’t intend on purposely cussing a lot, but it may come out. Blame my passion, my friends, and the absence of a cuss jar in my current domicile.
7. Most lists won’t be this long.
8. Enjoy. If you have a disagreement with me, say so. If you think what I say is dumb, say so. If you think what I say is brilliant, say so twice, and retweet, post, and everything else you can “re.”
9. I have been a card holding member of the, “Moneyball” philosophy since the book came out, but it doesn’t mean I always apply it correctly. Feel free to slap me down in those cases.
10. I have a few friends that love the Cubs, and writing, as much as I do. They will be writing on this site from time to time. In some cases, more often than me. They will introduce themselves as they do.
And…..scene.