Roll Out the Welcome Mat
by Tom Ziller on Feb 25, 2009 6:31 AM PST
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PrintA quick slice of meta this morning. SB Nation has partnered with Yahoo! Sports, and SBN content will now appear on Yahoo! team pages and game thread comments will be fed into Yahoo! live box scores. You can see the former in action already.
Jim Bankoff, the CEO of SBN, has a post up at Blog Huddle explaining the partnership. Basically, Yahoo! wants better local coverage. SBN wants more eyeballs.
What's this mean to you?
* There might be a grip of new users. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow. But around the draft. And free agency. And when the team is good again. There will no doubt be an adjustment period in which they learn the ropes, and we help teach them the ropes. Fair warning, I suppose.
* Let's limit cursing in game threads. It may be hard, but at least Mikki Moore and Brad Miller are gone. That's 2/3rds of the cursing-related problem! (Dang, Beno ...) I'm not sure of the protocol to this point, whether there will be a censor or whether the firehose will be shut off if things get out of control. I trust that you all will prevent something like that from happening.
While we're here ...
* When creating a FanShot or FanPost, please use the team and player tagging functions. It's super-easy, and it will make it easier for fans (here and from the other SBN blogs) to find the most relevant content. If you write an opus on Calvin Booth, but don't tag the post "Calvin Booth" in the player box, future generations of Calvin Booth worshippers will not be able to locate it. We don't want that.
* A quick word about ads: all ads currently on StR are sold and managed by SBN. The StubHub ad, the CBS13 ad, etc. If you run a local business and you'd like to advertise on the world's greatest Kings community, drop me an email (tom AT sactownroyalty DOT com) and I'll set you up with our network folks.
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Yeah?
That’s like 50% of all the words I know.
No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. Simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get all tangled up, you just tango on.....
I am the stone that builder refused..I am the visual...The inspiration..That made lady sing the blues....I'm the spark that makes your idea bright.....The same spark that lights the dark....So that you can know your left from your right...I am the ballot in your box....The bullet in your gun...The inner glow that lets you know...To call your brother son....The story that just begun...The promise of what's to come...And I'm 'a remain a soldier till the war is won....
Yeah
It amazes EVEN me.
No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. Simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get all tangled up, you just tango on.....
I am the stone that builder refused..I am the visual...The inspiration..That made lady sing the blues....I'm the spark that makes your idea bright.....The same spark that lights the dark....So that you can know your left from your right...I am the ballot in your box....The bullet in your gun...The inner glow that lets you know...To call your brother son....The story that just begun...The promise of what's to come...And I'm 'a remain a soldier till the war is won....
Congrats, TZ!
Very cool that the site will get additional views and recognition, we will slog through the inevitable, “Kingz looz, lolz” posts, and be better for it when it’s all over.
Rocks are free, and slingshots easily stolen.
Nice!
I am glad you have some powerful allies!
TZ -
Does that mean that you’re going to let rbiegler and me out of the basement now?
(Please – somebody – send help!!!)
SACTOWN ROYALTY - Try our thick creamy shakes!
by section214 on Feb 25, 2009 8:26 AM PST reply actions 1 recs
In honor of you & RB
Count Rugen: [admiring his torture contraption] Beautiful isn’t it? It took me half a lifetime to invent it. I’m sure you’ve discovered my deep and abiding interest in pain. Presently I’m writing the definitive work on the subject, so I want you to be totally honest with me on how the machine makes you feel. This being our first try, I’ll use the lowest setting.
[Count Rugen activates the water powered torture machine. Wesley writhes in great pain]
Count Rugen: [calmly] As you know, the concept of the suction pump is centuries old. Really that’s all this is except that instead of sucking water, I’m sucking life. I’ve just sucked one year of your life away. I might one day go as high as five, but I really don’t know what that would do to you. So, let’s just start with what we have. What did this do to you? Tell me. And remember, this is for posterity so be honest. How do you feel?
[Wesley cries and moans in pain]
Count Rugen: Interesting.
No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. Simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get all tangled up, you just tango on.....
I am the stone that builder refused..I am the visual...The inspiration..That made lady sing the blues....I'm the spark that makes your idea bright.....The same spark that lights the dark....So that you can know your left from your right...I am the ballot in your box....The bullet in your gun...The inner glow that lets you know...To call your brother son....The story that just begun...The promise of what's to come...And I'm 'a remain a soldier till the war is won....
- with a nice Chianti
Ththththtththhthhtht!
So imitate the action of the tiger!
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
Disguise fair nature with hard-favoured rage.
- lend the eye a terrible aspect,
Now set the teeth - and teach them how to war!
Henry V iii
by lietothegirls on Feb 25, 2009 11:03 AM PST up reply actions
Congrats TZ
Must be exciting. We should have a rookie tag to all the new members for the first year they are here. Then we can make them do all the tagging.
AK47, SN13, B52, and K9. One guns, Another runs, He fits, while it licks.
Fill up there cars with popcorn when they forget to tag.
There now I've met the 75 word count. -pookeyguru
Maybe we can get some sort of virtual pink backpack?
by furious.d on Feb 25, 2009 10:12 AM PST up reply actions 2 recs
Ahhh
That would be perfect.
What would be better?
1. Anyone with less than 1yr StR of experience automatically gets a fat Pink Hello Kitty Backpack next to their avatar
or
2. Any post/person demonstrating a StR etiquette/rookie mistake can have a Hello Kitty Backpack added to their profile via the actions button (kinda like a rec)
or both?
TZ, get on it.
AK47, SN13, B52, and K9. One guns, Another runs, He fits, while it licks.
In the spirit of friendship
I welcome the arrival of more Kings fans to the site.
But let’s be honest, it’s Yahoo – we are probably going to get more trash-talking, keyboard challenged, special-ed dropouts.
Then again, at least it’s not a partnership with AOL. Just trying to find the silver lining here…
Mambo King
Talk about the irony in that statement
No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. Simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get all tangled up, you just tango on.....
I am the stone that builder refused..I am the visual...The inspiration..That made lady sing the blues....I'm the spark that makes your idea bright.....The same spark that lights the dark....So that you can know your left from your right...I am the ballot in your box....The bullet in your gun...The inner glow that lets you know...To call your brother son....The story that just begun...The promise of what's to come...And I'm 'a remain a soldier till the war is won....
I'm not going for it
but no…..
So imitate the action of the tiger!
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
Disguise fair nature with hard-favoured rage.
- lend the eye a terrible aspect,
Now set the teeth - and teach them how to war!
Henry V iii
by lietothegirls on Feb 25, 2009 10:58 AM PST up reply actions
So Ziller,
Now that you’re rollin’ in Yahoo money when are you and Section gonna start a podcast? you guys could make Skeets and Melas your bitches!
www.mancancook.net
Rolling in Yahoo! money?
Ha! There’s no money in this deal that I’m aware of. It’s more of a more content for Yahoo!, more hits for SBN thing. As far as I know.
And I have a face made for radio
and a voice made for silent movies.
SACTOWN ROYALTY - Try our thick creamy shakes!
You must read the entire joke
where’s that [hello kitty] button?
Ball movement ... is like jogging for most people: They do it occasionally, and it makes them happy. Then they go back to not doing it. - Henry Abbott
by Kfan in Korea on Feb 25, 2009 12:40 PM PST up reply actions
Yeah
I posted that then realized “oh yeah, he said his voice sucks too.” By then it was too late
www.mancancook.net
Damn, that no edit policy
I figured as much, just giving you shit.
Ball movement ... is like jogging for most people: They do it occasionally, and it makes them happy. Then they go back to not doing it. - Henry Abbott
by Kfan in Korea on Feb 25, 2009 3:09 PM PST up reply actions
You need to stop sticking your hands in Korean sewers
Eventually you might contract something you know.
No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. Simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get all tangled up, you just tango on.....
I am the stone that builder refused..I am the visual...The inspiration..That made lady sing the blues....I'm the spark that makes your idea bright.....The same spark that lights the dark....So that you can know your left from your right...I am the ballot in your box....The bullet in your gun...The inner glow that lets you know...To call your brother son....The story that just begun...The promise of what's to come...And I'm 'a remain a soldier till the war is won....
Grats to TZ/SBNation
Regarding the tags. There needs to be a drop-down menu or a list of tags to click on, if you want people to add tags to the posts. Otherwise you risk misspellings/mislabeling etc. Also, how many tags do you want? How long should they be, etc?
I’ll just stop linking fanshots and never make a fanpost, that way I can’t fuck up the tags. Sounds like too much work to me.
Ball movement ... is like jogging for most people: They do it occasionally, and it makes them happy. Then they go back to not doing it. - Henry Abbott
Just made it ...
…. nothing useful to say, just wanted to get in before the rush…
Been much more of a reader than a writer … have really enjoyed checking in here regularly…
Go Kings!
Gratz TZ
NBA FanHouse, Sactown Royalty, your star keeps rising. As both an NBA fan and a Kings Fan (NOT an oxymoron) I appreciate your love of the game and all of your hard work and effort in giving fans like me a place to share my passion with other like minded individuals.
Thank you.
by betweentheeyes on Feb 25, 2009 10:48 PM PST reply actions
Thanks, Z
It’s all you, Bro.
Pretty hard to imagine that so many intelligent and aware fans would be gathered here; and yet, here you all are….
I learn something every time I log on.
StR – It’s a good thing
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