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The Millenials here probably have no idea that -in baseball- "We Are Family" is hip.  Not magoo.  There's a reason for that; you could look it up.

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Notice that the J.D. Martinez post is nested within the SSI "blog" Hot Stove, which means you can click on its Hot Stove button (top right) and quickly jump to all the similar articles.   (This little post has the "Dr's R/X" button top right.)

Other blogs within the over-arcing Seattle Sports Insider:  Baseball area include --- > Sabermetrics, Aiki Mechanics, Player of the Day (POTD), Dr's Prognosis, Mariners Minor Talk, and so forth.  Also, you may click on the word Blogs, directly adjacent to the Seattle Sports Insider title at the very top, to see the index of all possible blogs.  ... well, not 'possible' blogs.  You'd be doing us all a favor if you proposed a new addition to the blogs concepts.

Within that Hot Stove collection of posts ... my own intent is a Mariner Central-type chat thread, in which Dr. D (ahem) gets to launch the thread and make the first comment.  The idea is a series of equal-value comments that follow the first comment.

The quality and depth of Denizen comments is dizzying.  A Denizen comment is not often a single-line sports bar quip; it's an essay that could have been on the front page.  In view of this, the "chat thread launch" is my own favorite way to interact, even if it's nobody else's.  The Shout Box is the future and all that, but am glad for a little revisit of the Chat Board / Blog hybrid that Detect-O-Vision used ta be.  

Of course, any Denizen is very welcome to launch their own thread in an MC kind of spirit.  Exxpecially when I'm taking a couple of days off, which tend to be Sunday-Monday-maybe-Tuesday, this is not only welcome but appreciated.  And y'notice that "Guest Posts" (which is another blog) draw plenty of commentary.  No (critical) need to post the cynically-SEO images of puppies, babies or cartoons like Dr. D is wont to do; we'll add when we get here.

:: low five ::

Also welcome in the comments below, would be your own thoughts about SSI's structure.

muchas gracias very much,

Jeff