Come spend the trade deadline with BTF! We've asked some of the best and brightest analysts on the web to join us for an afternoon discussion panel, starting 12 PM (EDT) on Friday, 7/31.
As of right now, the tentative panel list includes:
Craig Calcaterra (Shysterball)
David Cameron (Fangraphs, U.S.S. Mariner)
Brian Joura (Fangraphs, Fantasy Pros 911)
Sky Kalkman (Beyond the Box Score)
Jonah Keri (Wall Street Journal, Investor's Business Daily)
Howard Megdal (The Baseball Talmud, New York Observer, The Perpetual Post)
Pat Lackey (Where Have You Gone Andy van Slyke?)
Adam Morris (Lone Star Ball)
Chris Needham (NBC Washington)
John Sickels (Minor League Ball, RotoWire, The Baseball Prospect Book)
Eric Simon (Amazin' Avenue)
Jeff Sullivan (Lookout Landing)
I'm still in the process of getting the schedule nailed down, but here are the tentative arrival times so far (all times in EDT):
Sullivan: 12 PM
Calcaterra: 12 PM
Cameron: 12 PM
Kalkman: 12 PM
Keri: 12:30 PM
Joura: 1 PM
Megdal: 1 PM
Needham: 1 PM
Morris: 3 PM
Simon: Afternoon-6PM
More to come...
Guest availability will vary as responsibilities dictate. Some should be there at least an hour while some are willing to spend most, if not all, of the afternoon with us.
In addition to asking questions through the chat client during the event (available through the applet on BTF's front page or from CoveritLive.com), questions can be submitted up to and through the event by sending an e-mail.
For those that have problems with the embedded chat applet on BTF, a live link to connect to the chat through CoveritLive.com will appear at the start of the event. As a reminder, no additional software or registration is required to view or participate in the chat. The only thing required is a 21st century browser that's capable of, uh, doing, uh, stuff.
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1. He's Bought a Bat Like Prince Fielder Posted: July 27, 2009 at 06:08 PM (#3268709)Any thoughts to putting together a static html homepage that embeds the Cover it Live widget? Then this could be swapped in if the database goes down or EE becomes otherwise unresponsive.
I do urge people to set reminders - it'll email a link directly to the coveritlive chat at a set time before the chat and that link should be completely off BTF. BTF usually behaves if it's not midnight and nobody's deleting a comment from a thread.
Also, no, it's not just trade deadline stuff. I'm not going to post non-baseball questions for the panel though.
Hope you guys are enjoying so far!
We had a lot of fun. Thanks for attending and another round of thanks goes out to our guests for taking time out of their days to shoot the breeze.
Yes. Yes, indeed.
ROFL
It's definitely something we'll do again. Any suggestions on how to make it more fun for the readers will be greatly appreciated. I tried to keep the pace moving so that the panel would get to most questions and comments, but the downside is that it can also be chaotic at times.
Was the pace acceptable or do I need to slow things in the future so that the panel has time for longer answers at the expense of not getting to everything?
You better be talking about the Greek dish because that ain't how you sub!
If so, we could start up souvlakithinkfactory.org.
Dan, not to be a greedy Gus, but are there going to be TO entries on the deadline trades?
At my size, if I was thinking I'd never go near the tings. But bust out the lambeef and cucumber sauce and all rationality disappears.
That's some tasty grub right there.
My time's been busy due to wedding stuff (not mine). I'm going to do a big rundown of projections Sunday or Monday. The entries will be fairly short - I talked a lot about the trades in the chat and I'm starting to get my various projection/translation tools 2010-ready.
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