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I just came back Thursday night from a quick trip back east, and tomorrow I’m off on another trip. I’ll miss the Seahawks game, so no open game thread and no game recap, either.

And, I’m not even sure The Fan is going to continue too much longer. There are too many other things pulling me in all directions, and since this blog never really managed to start a community as I had hoped, it’ll be easy to walk away. Probably won’t make any decisions until the holidays or soon after…..

GO SEAHAWKS!

I’ll have sporadic computer access for the next week or so, which might be a good thing considering how the Mariners/A’s series started tonight. Sheesh……

I could use some help for a small Seahawks-related thing I’m working on. Specifically, I’m looking for quotes/predictions about the Hawks’ running game, Shaun Alexander, and the departure of Steve Hutchinson.

As you read through various NFL season previews, if you come across someone saying something like “The loss of Hutchinson might cripple Seattle’s running game” or “Shaun Alexander won’t come close to his 2005 numbers without Steve Hutchinson…” — that’s what I’m looking for.

If you find stuff like that, please post a link to the article in the Comments of this post, or just email me. (Email address is on the About The Fan page.)

Thanks!

Not that you’d notice, but I’ll have irregular internet access for a while coming up, so posting may be light(er than usual).

It occurs to me that The Fan used to get a lot more comments when we were still on Blogspot. Comments have slowed to a trickle since the move to our own domain and the WordPress platform. Don’t know why that is, and don’t have time for serious navel-gazing over it, but just in case it’s not obvious, here’s how easy it is to comment via WordPress on The-Fan.org:

1. First, register to comment here. It’s free and quick.

2. When a password is emailed to you, come back and login here.

3. When you login, you’ll be able to change your password to something much easier to remember. And you can comment to your heart’s content!

Really. It’s that easy. So start commenting. Plus, when I get to the point where I need/want to add new writers, it’ll be much easier to find good people from all the intelligent comments you’ve left.

Okay, I think I’m done. The entire blog has been categorized now, and you’ll notice the addition of several new categories on the left — NFL General, MLB General, etc.

Font sizes are fixed, link colors, and various other coding stuff is all done. For now…..

I’m still in the process of porting over all the old posts from Blogger. As you can see on the left, the “Miscellaneous” category still has 200+ posts. I have about 4-5 months of imported material to clean up, put in the correct category, etc. Then I want to play with the look & feel a bit and that should be it….

Wasn’t too thrilled with the previous layout/design, but this one seems much better to me. Still have some minor tweaking to do and all those posts to categorize, but we’re making good progress. Check it out — you can see how many posts are in each category, which is very cool!

Oh, did someone say that pitchers and catchers report tomorrow? Err … later today?

Finally… away from Blogger!

I’m far from finished, but this whole “don’t-write-any-new-posts” and “don’t-comment-on-any-posts” stuff has gone on long enough. So finished or not, the new home of The Fan is now open.

Welcome.

A few notes so you know what to expect:

• I’ll be adding new posts and you can feel free to comment as you see fit.
• You may have to register with The Fan in order to add a comment – not sure how that works exactly, so bear with me here at the beginning.
• I’m thrilled to have Categories on the left sidebar so you can just go through posts about an individual team, but … I still have several hundred old posts to categorize. I’ll post an update when I’m finished.
• You may find broken images scattered here and there among the old posts – that’s just part of moving. I’ll try to fix things as best I can, but it’s not a priority at the moment.

So there you go – please update your bookmarks or links or whatever you use to get here.

Well, drive away would be more accurate…

The Fan is being placed on the 5-day DL starting tomorrow. I don’t expect there will be any posts until the middle of next week or thereabouts. If you’re desperate for some n’west sports commentary, plenty of links in the left column.

See ya next week…..