Eagle-eyed, regular readers of this blog will note that a minor change has taken place - in the right hand corner, you will now see a section titled “Contributors”. Contributors are Lynxfan (yours truly) and “Patrick”. Patrick is a long time reader/frequent commenter on the blog and I’ve asked him to blog along with me this season - I’m genuinely pleased that he’s taken me up on the offer. Patrick plans to keep his “powder” dry until the season begins, but don’t be surprised if he throws a post or two in in advance of Opening Day.

In my opinion, blogs are where it’s at - the mainstream media, like newspapers and television news, is seeing it’s readership and/or viewers numbers decline. Blogs, once considered to be a fringe form of media and a fad, are now shaping the “new media”. At the risk of sounding arrogant, I will say that I’m confident that between Patrick and I, we will be able to bring the internet savvy Lynx fan coverage that will rival anything you’ll find in the local media. I can virtually guarantee that this blog will have more pictures and video than you will find anywhere else (with the possible exception of the Lynx website itself). I can absolutely guarantee you that it will be more positive and posts will not be prefaced with qualifiers about next season (i.e. 2008) - We’re here, we’re now, and this is still Ottawa’s baseball team.

The blog numbers have been fantastic - not that I set any goals last September; I was happy if five or six people a day showed up, and I was posting once every couple of days for the first month or so. As the traffic increased, I felt an obligation to provide more posts and information. We’re now at 2,270 hits and growing - and January’s been an exceptional month:

I’m starting to believe that the trend will continue - as we get closer and closer to Opening Day more people are turning their attention to baseball. We won’t disappoint them.

Thanks for dropping by! And my thanks to Patrick for helping to pick up the work load - it’ll be a great 2007!