As any follower of this blog can tell you, I am prone to ADD-style updating - seven times in a week, then no posts for two weeks after the onslaught. Some of this is due to how my creativity ends up striking me, and some of it is due to my hectic work schedule. Currently, it's a bit of both. Higher-ups from SB Nation (the blog's parent company) have contacted me and have been unhappy with the updating schedule from its main author. However, in my defense, my posts take significantly longer to conceptualize and write than your average fan blog, and I think this is something that my readership understands.

Sabermetric articles have been pointed out as "out of place" on this blog, and I want to make it abundantly clear that they will remain and will continue to be encouraged. This blog is intended to be a forward-thinking blog about all of baseball - this was the goal when I founded it, and it will continue to be this way so long as I run it.

I was awestruck at all the responses to my article about Homer Bailey and was grateful that my readers took the time to comment. I have a draft partially written about all the suggestions and comments, and I look to post that sometime soon. Not a day goes by that I don't think about the amazing growth of this blog and how much I owe you - the reader.

I have been unable to commit as much time as I'd like to the blog lately, and to remedy this, I have been seeking authors to help keep the gears moving along. hazel is the first addition to the staff, and I have yet another in the pipeline that I have been discussing and considering as well. The pattern of bloggers here is fairly consistent - they post excellent material here, get noticed by larger blogs (some that pay them), and they move to those sites. This is not only perfectly acceptable, but encouraged! However, I still hold hope that my partner-in-crime, devil_fingers, will continue to hold the sabermetric front steady.

Lately, I have been extremely busy with my day job (boo...), but also busy with my other venture - Driveline Performance, Inc. Previously Driveline Baseball, Inc., we'll be reforming as a general sports and conditioning outfit that primarily serves baseball players, but will also train and analyze athletes from various different sports. Our web presence has been the focus of much of my development, and I hope to show it to you all in the near future.

And last, but not least, I have identified a university that will work with my chaotic schedule and will be able to offer some distance learning classes in order to allow me to finish my undergraduate degree in Health and Human Performance Studies. I am seeking to re-enter the collegiate ranks in Spring 2010, with a projected graduation date of Winter 2010 (I have just one year to finish my Bachelor's Degree). In my Fall 2010 semester, I plan on sitting for the NSCA Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) certification test, as well as various one-on-one personal training certifications. I look forward to sharing what I learn with the readers of this blog and the clients that I currently work with.

Thanks again for all your support and understanding with the blog's less-than-normal updating schedule.