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NYT: Blog Helps a Yankee Connect With Fans

[Phil] Hughes has seen a lot on his Web site, philhughes.wordpress.com, since starting it Jan. 16. Through Monday afternoon, the site had attracted more than 340,000 visitors from six continents.

Hughes has posted entries on 27 of the first 41 days, offering contests, chats, song lists and the occasional cellphone picture — an alligator on a golf course, Ian Kennedy’s changeup grip, buckets of fan mail in the clubhouse…

Other Yankees have official Web sites, including Derek Jeter, Alex Rodriguez and Chien-Ming Wang. Their sites are heavy on graphics and maintained through MLB.com. Jeter updated his journal four times in 2007, and Rodriguez once.

See, kids, true Yankees update their blogs more than once.

The Kids Are Enright (1k5v3L) Posted: February 26, 2008 at 04:58 PM | 2 comment(s) Login to Bookmark
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1. Gamingboy Posted: February 26, 2008 at 09:27 PM (#2700518)

Pat Neshek gets no respect.

2. Miko Supports Shane's Spam Habit Posted: February 27, 2008 at 10:33 AM (#2700865)

From today's entry:

Record Setting Day
26 02 2008

Tyler Kepner of The Times wrote an article today about the blog. As a result the hits for today have shot up to 23,000+ and counting.

He doesn't even have google ads. What's his agent up to, sleeping?

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