BYB writing opportunity available!

Don’t like the principles behind the site then don’t visit it, I am sure there are plenty of other sites that don’t have volunteer writers that you can enjoy.

The reason this community works is because of the content. You can get content one of two ways. One, you could pay top dollar for it. Two, you could staff it with writers you genuinely love the Tigers and everything about the organization. Personally I love sites like this built from fans and not egotistical sports writers that think so highly of themselves while talking down to the rest of us “normals”.

The job doesnt pay enough for you? Find something else to do with your time.

but they seem happy share hundreds or thousands of them.

I’d love to have a big budget here and shower money on all sorts of people. Realistically, it’s just not going to happen. Realistically, most people who start and run their own blog don’t see a dime for their work and end up writing for a couple of dozen people.

For folks who feel the itch to share their opinions when it comes to baseball and the Tigers and have a lot of other people see them, you’re not going to top BYB. That’s all we can realistically offer.

Because writing for a site with this kind of traffic is a hell of a resume line.

That includes myself and the time I spend writing/updating my own site, TWFE. And I know for a fact the same goes for Kurt here at BYB.

I write online and produce podcasts because it’s fun and I have something to say, not because I want to get paid.

I started, like most other bloggers, just for the enjoyment of it. If a little cash, exposure, and other opportunities come along, great. But I just consider it nothing more than found money…usually enough to buy good beer.

And I made a living as a reporter for many years. I still put out probably 2-3,000 words a week for my current job. I like getting paid to write things and I’ve managed to make a career out of it. I support paying other people who do creative work, whether writers or otherwise.

That being said, I’ve been happy to contribute articles to BYB for free and if I had anything near the time it’d take to do these posts, I’d love to take it on. All Kurt’s doing is giving somebody a platform for blogging that they might otherwise do elsewhere.

writing for this place looks good on a resume. If I had the time to do this I’d offer myself in a heart beat. Unfortunately I could only ever be an occasional contributor, so Fanposts help fill my need to write when I have the time.

What’s the point?

It isn’t work. It’s a hobby.

This is a website of FANS. This is where we gather to trade ideas, follow the team we love, and banter with other intelligent folks. Writing here, whether as a comment or a longer piece, is what we’re doing for love of the game. Oh yeah — just went Full Costner.

Anyway, treating this as a job is like treating your tumblr account as a job. I might post stuff all day. It might be interesting. It might stimulate conversation…but it sure as hell isn’t my JOB.

That is, part of the 1% of awesome baseball bloggers.

Seriously, I love this site and I don’t know what I’d do without it as far as Tigers news/interaction goes.

the inmates took over years ago

I am interested in this. Do all links have to be Tiger-related? I’ve seen some sites that do this daily and include links to their own team as well as general baseball-related links.

I’m just curious because I read a lot (a LOT) of baseball-related material that isn’t just Tigers-related. Could be interesting.

http://www.blessyouboys.com/section/morning-lede

Basically finding interesting stories from around the web and sharing them with a sentence (or a few sentences) with readers.

A simply ludicrous practice.

I spend all my free time on this site. So don’t feel bad.

I miss doing some writing around here.

But if we’re sneaky, we can delete screw ups.

I could see myself playing skyrim for months and months because it’s so huge and deep and there are seemingly infinite ways to develop characters that I feel like starting another game just to play with more ways