Comments on: 10 years

By: Civil Guy

Civil Guy — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 01:52:26 +0000

Thnpank you! As a young professional branching out and taking the road less traveled by working for myself I really appreciate your courage and success. The passion you have for your work and the independent thought that you bring to the table are inspiring for us all and a model for success regardless of the area of expertise. Keep it up.

By: marc

marc — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 18:12:02 +0000

Congrats Aaron. We all owe you a thank you for elevating the discourse. It seems quaint now thinking back on reading the usual suspects in the Strib and the Pioneer Press from the 70′s on. But that seems now long ago, and I would never go back. I always devoured the articles and the box score and since I used to play baseball growing up I always mentally added a walk to the hit column and then had the real total, ie. OBP. But that’s about as far as it went: I still admired wins and saves, even though I pined for a day when stats would reward an obvious defensive shift or defensive plays, but even then I thought that was all positioning and managing. It was only when I was much older and non-athletic and frustrated reading cranks in the local papers without knowing why, that I discovered your blog in about 2007 or 2008. Then it hit me: oh yeah, writing is a job. It can be lazy or ignorant, but as long as it gets done on time and eyeballs see it, the person gets paid. The “twin” discovery that baseball writing and stats could be so much better really changed and improved my appreciation for baseball, and quickly made me understand how much more fun it was to see the game league-wide and not just through the local Twins homerism lens. Thank you.

By: Corky

Corky — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 16:58:28 +0000

I think I discovered your blog sometime during the Twins incredible 2006 run, and it’s rare that a week has gone by that I haven’t checked your site at least once. Thanks for consistently putting up amazingly well-researched articles grounded in stats, leaving the emotional, analogy laden drivel for the newspaper columnists.

Here’s to another 10 years…

By: Lou

Lou — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 02:52:14 +0000

Thank you for being worth reading. It’s not the readers, but the writing that made this happen.

By: Spoofbonser

Spoofbonser — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 21:55:40 +0000

You are the best baseball writer out there imo, seriously. You should considervwriting a book. Don’t let it get to your head.

By: AM.

AM. — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 21:15:39 +0000

In addition to the #GleemanForTwinsGM campaign, there should clearly also be a #GleemanWhileShrooming campaign. Maybe it could just be a verb “Gleemaning.”

By: John

John — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 19:53:43 +0000

Yay, Aaron! Thanks for writing such a great blog. And thanks even more — I’ve lost 55 pounds based on your example. So baseball and weight loss together . . . you should have a syndicated daytime TV show!

By: John B.

John B. — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 17:31:20 +0000

Hey Aaron – I’ve been a regular reader since at least 2003… and I’m not even a Twins fan! Congratulations on all your success – you definitely deserve it.

I hope you never lose your passion for internet sportswriting, because you do a great job.

By: Matt N

Matt N — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 17:09:40 +0000

Congratulations on ten years! I have only been a regular reader for the past four or five of those years, and it is fun for me to read how it all got started.

As others have said, your blog is the first place I go when the Twins make a major move, and I enjoy reading your stuff even when I disagree with it because you always back up your assertions with statistics and quality analysis.

Thank you for enriching the lives of so many of us beleaguered Twins fans. Here’s wishing you many more years of blogging success.

By: Jon W.

Jon W. — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 16:27:33 +0000

Congratulations Aaron and thanks for all your work. I am another one of the many who knew nothing about sabermetrics before reading your blog. Now my wife can’t get me to shutup about it – so much so that she now regularly checks out your blog as well.
Similar to all the diet and exercise information in the comments section of your weight loss post earlier this year, it seems that this blog post also has a lot of useful information. I never even considered reading your work while on mushrooms, but that’s a great idea. I should try a lot more stuff on shrooms. Thanks for fostering such a creative community!