I can't wait to read "25 Random Things About Repoz"

I'll join as long BBTF doesn't take any quizzes.

btw, how do create a sign up page for a group? A simple cut and paste of the group's url doesn't work.

If any of you are Facebook devotees and have ideas on ways we can integrate things, I encourage you to post your ideas here.

Attractive females are encouraged to post photos of selves in swimwear and not activate privacy controls.

I can't wait to read "25 Random Things About Repoz"

Me neither!

Just became a fan. What I'd really like to know, though, after perusing the rest of the fan list, is when they decided to start letting all those old people on Facebook.

Facebook would be a lot better if I didn't have to read about a certain someone's affection for his sweetie every 5 minutes. :)

Oh geeze, not you, Jim. Facebook?

I'm reminded of STTNG's "The Game", and it's not because of Ashley Judd's first on-screen kiss.

Facebook would be a lot better if I didn't have to read about a certain someone's affection for his sweetie every 5 minutes. :)

You'd think Jim would have discovered text messaging by now and left us out of it. The original definition of PDA rears its ugly head.

I've signed up. Please don't go on Twitter though.

I'll join as long BBTF doesn't take any quizzes.

Facebook is way behind the curve. Someone put together a "which baseball primer primate are you" years ago. I'm pretty sure I was Shredder. Or maybe Dan Werr.

Have you considered Facebook Connect? I'm not sure there's enough bang for the effort (until/unless EE has a Facebook Connect module). But basically, new users could use their Facebook accounts in lieu of creating an account here; it would remove an obstacle for new users, while still providing the benefits of registration (having an ability to contact a user, etc.) and more (access to profile). Just curious if you've looked at it, and if so, what you thought of it.

Actually, having this on Facebook is a little frightening. There was an element of safety not knowing what any of us clowns look like. Furtado's mugshot is particularly disturbing (joking, of course).

What I really want to know is which panelist on The View is BTF?

I really should change my profile pic, but i'm too lazy.

I've signed up. Please don't go on Twitter though.

It occurred to me during last nights ASG chatter that our game chatters are really twitters. I would think there are enough attorneys here to file a suit.

Vinay, I'll looked into Facebook Connect. It's something I think would work very well. There is a developer already working on an EE module, so it's something I hope to be able to plug-in without having to code myself.

Jim, how about a BBTF Iphone App. Screw this face book ########.

Cabbage Posted: July 14, 2009 at 04:13 PM (#3253559)

If any of you are Facebook devotees and have ideas on ways we can integrate things, I encourage you to post your ideas here.

Attractive females are encouraged to post photos of selves in swimwear and not activate privacy controls.

- sorry dude. i prefer that all yall just imagine the incredible HOTTTTTT that is me. ii wouldn't want any guy to be disappointed

and The Jim is kind of cute with all the love notes

i LIKE seeing some guy who is so in love that he wants every other person to experience it. what would be the absolute most kewl though is some guy who has been married for, say, 10 years (and hasn't cheated) posting like that about his wife

what would be the absolute most kewl though is some guy who has been married for, say, 10 years (and hasn't cheated) posting like that about his wife

Also cool would be hovering skateboards

that last sentence is for my darling Husband who was reading over my shoulder

amazing how dead easy it is to deal with your man

Sure, get him a hoverboard and he's yours for life.

my husband wouldn't get caught dead on a skateboard/hoverboard and the skateboard/hoverboard would run for its life iffn it saw him trying to get on it

however, i did get him an incredibly comfortable Chair and now he is indeed mine for life

like i said, dead easy to deal with your man

what would be the absolute most kewl though is some guy who has been married for, say, 10 years (and hasn't cheated) posting like that about his wife

Also cool would be hovering skateboards

And complete meals in pill form.

You'd think Jim would have discovered text messaging by now and left us out of it. The original definition of PDA rears its ugly head.

How do you think we exchange our really mushy messages?

Jim, how about a BBTF Iphone App. Screw this face book ########.

That will have to wait until my current cell contract expires.

Actually, having this on Facebook is a little frightening. There was an element of safety not knowing what any of us clowns look like. Furtado's mugshot is particularly disturbing (joking, of course).

Don't be a hater. :)
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My thoughts about the whole Facebook/Twitter thingies is that there are elements to those sites which could enhance the community aspects of this site. I don't want to infuse the entire site with social networking components however.

Jim, how about a BBTF Iphone App. Screw this face book ########.

I have thought about this. I spend far more time on BTF than on any other site, both on regular computers and on my iPhone. I'd love an iPhone app, and have put some thought into how it'd work and what it'd look like.

Note, it doesn't necessarily need to be a native iPhone app, or even iPhone-specific. A webapp would be nice, or even just a version of the site laid out for small screens.

... or even just a version of the site laid out for small screens.

I would love this.

Note, it doesn't necessarily need to be a native iPhone app, or even iPhone-specific. A webapp would be nice, or even just a version of the site laid out for small screens.

A mobile version of BTF is probably the best way to start. Same functionality withing a mobile layout.

Oh, if we're making this into the new suggestion thread, I think this would be #6 if I tack onto my lengthy post in the call for help:

I'm not sure exactly how you've got stuff worked into EE, nor what you're comfortable doing, so I won't suggest a particular method, but it would be really nice if you could prevent crawling of the Hot Topics sidebar. Any time I search and include a poster's name, what I end up with includes eleventy thousand threads in which they never posted, or the various main pages, which just happened to be crawled as that person's name was on the HT bar as the last poster in a thread. There are ways around it if I'm looking for something in which I know they posted, but not if just looking for a mention. The effort/reward ratio may be too low here, but if it's easily done, it'd be appreciated.

... or even just a version of the site laid out for small screens.

I would love this.

As would I. I volunteer to test on Windows Mobile.

I tried bbtf on my Blackberry years ago, it was not pretty. I'd love to get that going though.

I'm also going to apologize in advance for any "Mafia Wars" spam people get from me, I'm hooked on that damn Facebook game.

BBTF works fine for me on my regular cell phone, with Opera Mini. I mean, it's not perfect, but it's no worse than ESPN's mobile site.

however, i did get him an incredibly comfortable Chair and now he is indeed mine for life

This is the trick my wife used. Even if I wanted to, I could never quit that chair. I think it's classic nesting, really.


My wife is an amazing, lovely woman who is intelligent, sweet, hot and makes good money. And a hell of a cook.

Okay, I'm now prepared for the facebook era.

I've put the mobile suggestion near the top of my to-do for updates. I've also added Jeff's suggestion about preventing Hot Topics from being crawled, but I have to do a little research on that one to see if it's viable.

BTW, I appreciate many of the suggestions people have made for site improvements. As the end of the season nears I'll probably do some polling to see which features are the most desired.

Jim, just looking through the source for this page and the main newsblog, and then marveling at all the changes to the robots.txt standard in the last few years, it seems there's a quick answer. Since you're really just looking at Googlebot, confirming that Google uses nofollow in particular way is sufficient. Some crawlers will index nofol links, but GB doesn't seem to. So if you just nofol the links in the Right Content section (like you do with the betus.com link), that should prevent the index. Otherwise, it looks like XML Sitemap is your answer. Google conforms to the .9 version of the protocol, and the official site for that is here.

This may not play into where you want to go, but it does seem viable. I am surprised, especially with all the updates to what had been a standard with no further development, that there isn't a td meta tag for preventing robots. I had thought initially that was the way to go.

I tried bbtf on my Blackberry years ago, it was not pretty.

It still isn't. We need m.baseballthinkfactory.org ASAP. Do that and I'd try live blogging from the 60 or so minor league games I attend.

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