I have put up a new poll on the site about whether or not that we should cover the Olympic Baseball Tourney which starts up in about a week. Please vote when you get a chance.

The College Baseball Blog recently added Jarred Amato who will serve as a senior writer covering the SEC while serving as a national writer. He is currently a senior at Vanderbilt and is the editor of The Sports VU website which covers the Commodores athletic program. He will be providing us with weekly insights into the SEC Baseball conference during the season with reports from games across the conference. He can be contacted by clicking here.

We are currently looking for some new advertisers as some of our contracts are coming up for renewal and we would like to add some new ones to the site. So if you are looking to advertise on an up and coming site feel free to shoot me an email by clicking here. So we can talk about some advertising opportunities.

We also welcome individual users to donate money to the site which helps with the upkeep and with our great travels we make around the college baseball world. You can donate through the PayPal link on the side. If you have any problems shoot me an email by clicking here.

The College Baseball Blog will be making a few trips over the next few weeks highlighted by a visit to the Cape Cod League All-Star game in Chatham MA. We will also have reporters at the AFLAC All-American Game in Los Angeles and the Area Code Games in Long Beach CA. If you know of a game that we should attend over the next few months feel free to email me or we could use you as a guest reporter.

The College Baseball Blog would like to announce that Mark Rafferty has been promoted to the Assistant Editor role. Mark came to our site late in the season where he covered the Fullerton Regional and Super Regionals. He has decided to accept my offer to become the Assistant Editor after some intense contract negotations. This is big news for our site as it will help out with our coverage when I am working or not available to make some changes to the site. He can be contacted by clicking here or on his name in the writers section.

We added a poll on the left side of the page. The questions will change every few days so come by often and vote in the polls.

We are seeing a ton of users for the NCAA Tourney but not seeing any comments. Please stop by and comment on some of the great coverage of the Regionals and the upcoming Super Regionals. Registration is free and all comments are much appreciated.

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We are currently looking to expand our roster of writers as I can’t cover the entire nation on my own. We are looking for people that can commit to writing an occasional article about College Baseball, a conference preview for the upcoming weekend, or even just doing a weekend recap of conference action. If you can commit to doing this feel free to contact me for more information by clicking here.

We recently set up our site to work on all mobile devices so if you attending a game and wanted to check in on The College Baseball Blog just put in our web address and it will automatically bring you to the Mobile page which will load very quickly for you. We would like to thank Sam Wasson of BleedCrimson.net for helping us out with some of the kinks over the past day.

The College Baseball Blog would like to make sure that all SID’s add us to their media contact list for the 2008 season. We would love to be added to your contact lists as it makes it much easier for us to put up recaps if they are included in our email. We are also receiving a ton of media guides but we need to be contacted by SID’s for our address. Click on my name below to send me an email.

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Brian Foley

We have released our brand-new forums for the College Baseball Blog which are available by clicking the link on the side or clicking here. We would love to have your thoughts on the new forums. Also, What can we do with the site to make it better for our readers? Do we need more writers? More game coverage? How can we get some better sponsors so we can give you guys the best coverage in the nation? Please leave some comments with your thoughts or email us.

I was recently contacted by The Baseball Zealot about being a guest on his most recent podcast. I came on and discussed some of the history of our great website, among previewing the 2008 season. We would like to thank The Baseball Zealot for letting us come on his show and discuss the entire nation. The full podcast is available by clicking here. I am always open to being a guest on any radio or podcast so feel free to contact us by clicking here.

The biggest issue that has been discussed during the offseason has been the uniform start date which is February 1st for the first organized team practice and February 22nd for the first game for all Division 1 programs (excluding Hawaii). Most schools will hold their first practice on Friday with a few exceptions including the Ivy League which will hold off for another week or so. The uniform first practice day should be a tradition like they have in basketball with Midnight practices to celebrate the beginning of the season. Read the rest of this entry »

There was not much news around the College Baseball World on Wednesday. I thought I would ask for some suggestions on the future of the site. We are currently thinking about doing a season preview podcast sometime in February where we will give a Top 25 and our thoughts on the best teams around the country. We would also discuss some other issues around college baseball including the uniform start date and other issues. Would you guys listen to it? If you have anything to add about the site negative or positive feel free to leave a comment.