So as not to bury the lead: The Common Man and I have started a new blog, The Platoon Advantage, and are very pleased to have it become a part of Rob Neyer's SweetSpot Network. This site will remain right where it is (have no fear, my many gracious recent guest-posters!), but posting will slow to a stop over the next few months. I'm going to miss this place, and am very grateful to Bloguin for having had the opportunity, but this was just the right move for me for a few reasons. Read on for the full announcement.

So here's the thing.

I started this blog (well, not this blog, but the blogspot blog that became this blog) on a whim. I was bored and wanted to challenge myself to write things. At that time, I wasn't even 100% sure that all those things were going to be about baseball. I called it "The Daily Something" because I just wanted to make myself write something every day.

Well...that's hard. And it keeps getting harder. I've been thinking for a while about trying to find a new gig, where I have a collaborator (or collaborators) to relieve the pressure of writing something every single day before I just burned out entirely. I've had a few talks with people about adding co-writers to this blog, but nothing's ever really come of it. (And, frankly, I've never been a huge fan of the name The Daily Something. I mean, it's fine, but I thought it up in two whole minutes.)

A while back, while discussing my post on The Last Expo that ended up being linked to on Rob Neyer's page and elsewhere, I had a little email exchange with Rob in which he asked if I'd be interested in joining his "SweetSpot Network" of blogs. I was incredibly flattered; as he did for so many others around my age and is still doing today, Rob's writing really introduced me to sabermetrics and out-of-the-box baseball thinking, and I've been reading his stuff more or less daily for over ten years. I also knew that he had made similar inquiries with my friend of even more years than that (and near-weekly TDS guest writer), The Common Man. So...we started to think about stuff.

Bottom line: The Common Man and I have joined forces in a brand-new blog (well, his old blog, but with a brand new coat of paint and the ESPN seal of approval): The Platoon Advantage. My first post, and his, and an intro that explains it all, are already up.

This site isn't going anywhere: I'll occasionally be posting on it for at least the next month or two (probably some cross-posts with The Platoon Advantage Dot Com -- yes, I really want to drive the site into your brain -- and some occasional quick hits), and thanks to the great folks at Bloguin, the old posts will all still be here for the foreseeable future.

And I want to stress just how great those Bloguin folks are. This move has nothing at all to do with my Bloguin experience, which has been fantastic. If you've got a blog (especially one about sports, entertainment or video games) and would like to apply to get a prettier, more visible platform for it, by all means, go here (alternatively, if you've always wanted a baseball blog called The Daily Something and don't mind a bunch of my old posts in the archives, let me know and I'll see what I can do). I've really enjoyed working with these guys and have no reason to want to stop working with them; this opportunity was just too good a fit for me to pass up.

So please head over to ThePlatoonAdvantage.com. Check out our first couple posts, see what you think (hint: it's pretty much the same stuff we've been doing at our individual sites). Leave a comment or two. You know, really live it up.

And thanks for reading!