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Fellow readers --
It is with a heavy heart that I announce the end of The Bronx Insider.
This blog was started in January of 2008 by me and two friends. By February of 2008, I was the only one left. For the past fourteen months, I have enjoyed sharing my thoughts and insights into the ongoings of the New York Yankees. Blogging has been an outlet that I have loved ever since the blog was started. Over the past few months, the blog gained a strong following; we were on pace to nearly double our monthly visitor record this month.
Why is this the end? Last week, I was contacted by Bob Ruffolo of nyyankeesrumors.com. He asked if I would write for his site -- while hesitant at first, I agreed. I realized that taking on two blogs at once would be impossible, so I had to make a tough decision. The site over there has a strong community brewing, and like Kevin Rozell of the (former) Zells Pinstripe Blog, I decided to choose that.
Running my own site, especially on the vox server, has taken a lot of hard work -- but it's also been a lot of fun for me. The fact that many of my fellow Yankee fans read and comment on the site has been awesome, and I know you guys will continue that over at The Voice of Yankees Universe. Hopefully you will continue following my writing as I enter my college years.
The post/picture/video archives will be left up for eternity, so you can always take advantage of that.
So, THANK YOU so much for reading the site. I hope you have enjoyed it as much as I have.
-- Jeff
My entry on the baseball card industry from yesterday was published to bleacherreport.com - you can view it here.
Hey guys,
I'm back from France, so your regular programming will now continue.
I've missed quite a bit in the past few weeks, so I'm hoping to catch up on the latest Yankees and baseball-related news. I'll also post a few pictures from my trip (which was amazing) here on the site.
It's currently snowing here in Westchester, New York. It wasn't enough to cancel school, but it was enough to get the anti-locks going here and there.
Anyway, here are a few notes on the Yankees and on the site:
- Next week, Monday-ish, I will be on a podcast with Bob Ruffolo and possibly another writer from Yankees Rumors. We will be discussing everything Yankee-related as we get ready for pitchers and catchers to report.
- On Friday, February 13th, I will be leaving for France for nine days. I will be unable to update here on the blog, but one of my friends will be filling in for me.
- The Yankee Years officially hit the stores today. Torre has several book signings scheduled. Hopefully the controversy surrounding the book will abate in the coming weeks.
One year ago today, at exactly 7:56 p.m., The Bronx Insider was launched.
For those of you who don't know the origin of the blog, it's pretty simple: last year, I was sitting in an SAT class with a few of my friends. During a break, we started talking about the Yankees. One of my friends suggested that we start a blog. So we did.
I didn't pick the name, or the server, I was just sent a link and a password by my friend. There were three of us contributing to the site at the time. One year later, I'm the only one left.
I think the reason that I have continued blogging was because it has been a great outlet to share my thoughts and perspectives on the Yankees. Plenty of teenagers start blogs but stop posting after about two weeks because of apathy (me included: three years ago I started a blog and stopped posting after a month). But to say that TBI has lasted a full year is pretty remarkable in my book.
Stay tuned over the next few weeks. I have some podcasts, video chats, and a bunch of season preview posts lined up.
Here's to a fresh start for 2009.
Hey guys, welcome to The Bronx Insider. If you've made your way here, it's probably from reading my "pinch-hitting" article at Pete Abe's LoHud Yankees Blog.
First and foremost, I want to congratulate you on being a Yankee fan. We're a great breed of people, probably the best.
A little about myself and the blog: I started the blog back in January of 2008 with a few of my friends. We were sitting in an SAT class, and during a break we got to talking about baseball. "We should start a blog," my friend said. So we did.
As the months went by, they have left the blog, but I'm still here.
It's pretty neat to be one of the youngest regular Yankee bloggers out there; I think me and Zell from Zell's Pinstripe Blog are the only high schoolers doing so.
There are definitely some perks of using the Vox server. It allows you to embed videos on the sidebars, so if you scroll down, you'll be able to view some classic Yankees moments (or just click here). Unfortunately, you have to create a Vox account to leave a comment, but it only takes about a minute.
Over the past year, the blog has featured some good stuff. A few months ago, I wrote a letter to Bud Selig, and he actually wrote back! (view the letter here)
If you want to check out the archives, you can view my past tags. To date, there have been 538 posts, so there's a bunch of posts to check out if you have the time.
I also created a facebook group, so if you are a user of facebook, feel free to join the group.
Thanks for reading, and stay tuned for some good stuff over the next few weeks.
Steve L. from WasWatching.com has posted a survey about which Yankees blogs you read. The Bronx Insider is listed as one of almost 90 blogs, so if you read the blog, please vote for us!
Also, it is official: my piece on my experiences as a Yankee fan will be posted on Pete Abe's LoHud Yankees blog in three days. Here is a special sneak peak at the piece that I have written:
My father is a Red Sox fan, and for the first five years of my life, I was infiltrated with messages of Boston supremacy. While other babies were saying "goo-gah," I was saying "Rog-ah."
The only Yankee fan in my family was my grandfather on my mother's side. He used to tell me stories of serving in the army with a guy named Edward. "But by then, most people knew him as Whitey," he used to say. Yep, he served with Whitey Ford.
But for those first five years, I hated the Yankees. How unkind the fates were to me! Living just an hour north of the Stadium, I was constantly bombarded with taunts from my friends. Then, as I started developing into a mature first-grader, I came to my senses.
It started with a few Yankees baseball cards - Bernie Williams, David Cone, Paul O'Neill. It then grew into some posters, followed by magazines, books, and t-shirts. In the blink of an eye, I had converted into a Yankee fan.
My father, faced with this unpleasant and painful scenario, finally took me to a Yankees game on September 25th, 1999. I was eight at the time. Much to my chagrin, the Yanks lost 2-1 to the Devil Rays; it was the first time the Rays ever beat the Yankees at Yankee Stadium. Regardless of the outcome, it was a day that I'll never forget.
Since then, I have soaked in baseball. I love everything about it; the home runs, the strikeouts, the amazing catches. I love the numbers, especially - 73, 2,632, 714, .406, 56. Any way you slice it, the Yankees are at the center of it all; virtually all baseball history links back to them.
Unfortunately, I was a bit too young to appreciate the championships of the late 1990's. The clips have been played myriad times - I even have John Sterling's call of the last out of the 1996 World Series on my iPod. "Swung on and popped up again, off third. Hayes, has room, Hayes, makes the catch! Yankees win! Theeee Yankees win!" even though these championships live on in Yankee lore, I was never able to enjoy them as they were happening. There have been some great moments since then, but those classic October moments have diminished since I started becoming a fan.
This is why I am so excited for the 2009 season to begin. I feel that the moves the Yankees have made so far, especially in the rotation, will make them a dominant team from April through October. Long gone are the days that Sidney Ponson, Darrell Rasner, and Carl Pavano start three out of every five games. The Yankees are built to win.
So as the days become warmer and the grass becomes greener, here's hoping that this Yankee fan will be able to enjoy an October celebration in 2009.
Unless there is some major news over the next few days, I'm going to take a little break from blogging.
Thanks for sharing a great year with us at The Bronx Insider. I didn't really know what to expect when I started this blog in January, but it has definitely grown over time.
I expect the blog will grow even more in 2009, especially since it will be featured on Pete Abe's LoHud Yankees Blog in the coming weeks.
Have a great holiday, and enjoy the new year.
Back in January, I started writing some notes about the Yankees on facebook. After talking with a few of my friends, we decided to collaborate on a single Yankees blog using the Vox server. The name 'The Bronx Insider' was actually chosen by my friend Mike, who is ironically a Mets fan.
Since its inception, the blog has included numerous videos, podcasts, game notes, opinionated articles, and general news items. I feel honored that other Yankee blogs such as Was Watching, Scott Proctor's Arm, Zell's Pinstripe Blog, Baseball & The Boogie Down, and Elect Mike Mussina all link back to this site. Hopefully, over time, more people will know about the blog.
It hasn't been easy writing 500 posts, but it's kept me on top of the Yankees all year long. I can truly say that I have enjoyed creating this blog and seeing it evolve over time.
Thanks for reading.
In case you haven't seen it, The Bronx Insider now has a facebook group.
So, if you read the blog and you have a facebook, you should totally join it.
