The Shiny New SBNation.com

way too much info on one page. The MLB specific page has a lot going on. Still I think with a little getting used too it will be less confusing.

Of course, I’m pretty much a “baseball only” guy, so all the coverage doesn’t interest me all that much. But it’s pretty well organized and there’s a ton of baseball stuff to peruse.

If you scroll to the bottom there’s a “Recent Posts From Our 212 Sports Blogs” table that lets you see everything going on in the SBNation blogworld. BCB appears prominently among the baseball blogs. Very cool.

Oh, and I was thinking of posting this as a Fanshot, but here’s a Washington Post article from this morning covering the business side of SBNation’s recent expansion efforts.

but I liked the old set up for it’s ease of finding things. The "recent articles" that you could click to different sports is now buried on the bottom. Having the "list" of blogs split up by teams and sports in the main body was also easier to look up particular teams. (Granted, I don’t search a lot….the occasional Cubs or Purdue opponents, or if there’s a developing story in the world of sports, like the Shawne Merriman choking).

Now it’s just kind of all over the place, and really crowded on the main page. I guess the "crowdedness" is what bothers me the most. It’s not an easy page to look at.

I go to SB Nation for the blogs, go to SI.com or Yahoo.sports if I want to read a particular story or look up a box score. I guess I go here for a fan’s perspective on what’s happening in sports. I guess the goal is to make me just stay on one site?

I’ll have to explore it some more, but first impression isn’t good for me.

I’m glad BCB is a part of it.

I prefer low tech but hey I might finally get a cell phone.

Stories and comments get lost in the clutter.

After I wrote up the Chiefs game, I saw the banner headline “The new SBNation.com is live” at the top of the page. I thought “Hmmm, I don’t know anything about that” so I clicked on the headline. I got the screen that says “We’re sorry sports fans” and the whole message that they’ve been made aware of the error.

You can imagine what cynical comments went through my head at that time. So yes, what they have now is better than that.

and not just iPhones? It’s useless unless you’re at your desktop.

…and some little prankster had already turned on the radio, wipers, blinkers, fan, etc. so when you turn the ignition, everything is blaring out at you all at once?

That’s how I felt when I went to the new SBNation site.

Put me down for a “meh”. Or maybe that should be “MEH”…

That’s the very first thing I saw when I went to the site.

Why???

Is there going to be a second Cubs fan site so I don’t have to deal with you?

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090910&content_id=6894274&vkey=news_chc&fext=.jsp&c_id=chc

I’ve definitely tried to drive the ball more, and I’ve accomplished that — more homers, more RBIs — so that would probably be my explanation to the strikeouts vs. walks," Theriot said. "I’m just being more aggressive, more offensive when I’m at the plate.