Brock Beauchamp

I fixed the thread layout. Let me know what you think of the changes.

Nope. But by uploading a larger avatar, less of it "turns to goo".

Thanks for the input. The lettering may seem a little too big but honestly, no one will ever be happy with letter sizing. The older folks tend to like the big lettering. Younger folks may not need it. On a desktop, the lettering may seem too big. On a tablet, it may seem too small. Making the site work on every device for every user is basically impossible. I have to make choices and go with whatever I feel looks the best and works for the most devices and screens. I'll take a look at the thread spacing. I noticed that last night but haven't addressed it yet. At some point, I will be looking at that and re-evaluating how the forums are spaced. We can't move stuff away from the toolbars. Advertisers are adamant about having a certain number of ads "above the fold" (what a user sees without scrolling). Again, that boiled down to some tough choices and while I'm not done addressing the issue entirely, it's going to take a lot more thought before I change anything on the front page because I don't have any really good solutions in mind for it yet. The red and blue bother you? Really? Because I tried to avoid using the red too much in the design, leaving basically the navigation to be red (and the occasional icon) and that's it. Given the brightness of the red and the fact that red is a warm color and therefore pops, I wanted to rely more on the blue to avoid the site looking garish while still looking like a Minnesota Twins website. One thing to remember about viewing a website is that you're not the only person looking at it. You might be using a 27" monitor on a desktop. The guy replying to you might be using a 7" Nexus tablet. Finding a sweetspot to make everyone happy involves many decisions that may not seem apparent upon first glance and, like almost every decision in life, it usually boils down to some kind of compromise.

I believe the phrase of the day is "SWEEP THE LEG, SAMMY".

We had a few complaints about reading the forums so I did a bit of work on upping the readability of the text. Increased line height between lines, shrunk down the information bar to make room for the post container, little stuff like that... While I was digging around in the code, I changed the avatar size. You can now upload 150px by 150px images as avatars. I suggest taking advantage of it.

I don't know if I would, honestly. Pelfrey is the real wildcard but if you line him up against Liriano, he doesn't look so bad. Worley isn't a bad alternative to Baker because Scott could never stay healthy, but was quite good when pitching. Both Correia and Pavano are pretty bad options no matter what.

Dancing in heels is a bitch, isn't it?

No mention of Bowie's new album? What the hell, people. I expected better of you. FYI, it's quite good. I shouldn't be surprised but I am... just a little.

Tommy John joke.

Yep. Summit and Sierra are really close in taste so the transition was an easy one for me when I moved out here. Both are great beers.

My guess is he used the full reply system. Cmathewson, what browser, operating system, and version are you using?

I'm wondering if anyone is still having problems seeing the comments in the front page articles. Earlier, we were having a problem where each article was only showing a fraction of their comments (for example, it would say there are 43 comments in an article but some users would only see 3). Please let me know if this is still an issue. Thanks.

I'd just like to chime in and give a HUGE thanks to Summit for helping us out. Upon moving to Minnesota a few years back, I was looking to replace my beer of choice (which was more difficult to find here than in California), Sierra Nevada, with something local. Summit is a great beer and I'm only a bigger fan now that they graciously decided to sponsor the site.

Yep. I have no idea what to expect from that team. They could challenge Detroit for the division or they could challenge the Twins for the cellar.

Not meaningfully, anyway. FWIW, I just tried to open that article on my iPhone and it bugged out on me. No dice. Oh, John put a poll in there... I bet that is screwing something up.

Over aggressive much? Yeah, there's a chance that Hicks is free-swinging a bit. On the other hand, he's absolutely raking against ST pitchers. I don't think a guy is "pressing" when he's OPSing at 1.287 in ST. I also don't think ST numbers are indicative of much of anything, whether it's plate discipline, average, slugging, or whatever.

Are you using the mobile skin or the full site skin?

My personal favorite is Maddux. Because we all know how often guys with his ability, command, and brains come through baseball. *rolls eyes*

Yeah, the thumbnails were always there but in proportion to the slider (that's what that slideshow thing is called), they were much larger. Now, they're the same size as before but the rest of the slider is much bigger. Oddly enough, I think making the rest of the slider large and keeping those small has made them more noticeable.

Thanks for reminding me. I have some plans for that page and ran out of time yesterday. I'll get on it now.

You should see it on my 2560 resolution screen. I would have loved to do a responsive design for the site but vB's architecture makes that incredibly unwieldy to even attempt. It'd be a full-time two month project for one person. We'll be upgrading the software in about a year. I'm hoping that a responsive design will be feasible at that time (but I'm not holding my breath).

Which is part of the reason why MS has earned such ill-will with developers over the past ten years. First, they tried to break standards entirely by creating IE6, the dungheap to best all dungheaps of internet browsers. Then they held on to IE6 for damned near five years. Couple that with their policy of not giving older operating systems new browser updates (despite it being relatively easy to do), only updating their browser every 18 months, and they have earned every venomous statement cast in IE's direction over the past ten years. And it's just not complaining. IE has significantly held back the advancement of the Internet by being such a flaming pile of junk that developers are hamstrung with nearly every project they start. It's a mess and it's my opinion that no one should use an MS browser, ever... At least until Microsoft proves that they're going to update regularly and play nice with standards for 2-3 dot-oh versions of the browser.

Sorry about that. But it's not only the Federal Government. Just last year, I was working with McDonnell Douglas and they mandated IE7 for use with all their in-house applications. My head nearly exploded.

That's not uncommon early in spring, as pitchers are throwing a lot of fastballs over the plate and hitters are looking to get their timing down and make good contact. Plate discipline is something I completely ignore in ST.

I see what was happening on the front page sidebar... The widget avatars weren't z-indexing properly. I fixed it so you should no longer see part of the title clipped under the avatar, as it should sit above the avatar now.