Monday Planner: Developing a rhythm

You will. Mentioned that in Saturday Site Stuff.

Judging by our Pirates traffic, in all honesty, you'll be among the few awaiting it. But you will, nonetheless, get that.

Add me for as much Pirates as possible.

It's odd that the Pirates don't generate the traffic like the others.

Pirates coverage is the main reason I subscribed. I like the other Pittsburgh teams as well, but it's the Pirates stories that I read every day.

Me toon the Bucs coverage! Everything here has been great but the Pitlrates coverage was the main reason I subscribed.

You guys are in the minority. Credit to DK for all the coverage they have been giving the PIrates on away games. These games are basically meaningless right now, yet they are giving a lot of coverage. It's officially football season, everything means very little in comparison now.

These games are meaningless?

Buccos are No. 1 with me. Pirates coverage has been terrific. That's the main reason I'm here. Steelers No. 2.

Whether it generates hits or not DK, your Pirate coverage is dang good, and has replaced other sites as my go to Pirates coverage. I understand not going to every away game, that's a lot of travel. Hope we still get a thread, even if it is from a couch.

Thanks to those of you who have been reading! Our coverage won't change!

More Pirates! Hope to see more of them in Q&A and Insider than the past week. I know, I know Josh did Pens and the NLBHoF...but I pick at whatever insider Bucco scraps I can get.

I may be a bad yinzer for it, but the Steelers are third on my professional sports list. Baseball in the summer, hockey in the winter, and Steelers only if there isn't a baseball or hockey game.

Love the coverage DK.

Add my "amen" to the others who said they subscribed for the Pirates coverage. If it ain't the Bucs, it ain't.

Radio, I don't think you can judge any of the "traffic" by the game threads. Column threads, maybe.
All the game threads have a lot of the same people making many posts,comments as the game progresses.
This is prolly Sat. Site stuff but I believe "traffic" is more related to unique hits and new subscriptions generated off certain topics.

The Pirates are # 3 for me and apparently in the rest of the Burgh.
That said, I have been enjoying the baseball coverage very much,
Given that they have been playing generally pretty well and some of the good story lines (fantastic starting pitching, Kang. Pedro. Melancon, AJ)
I am a bit surprised that "traffic" is that disappointing.

When I describe traffic, I'm referring entirely to page views on the site and app. They aren't good for Pirates. The same is true on Root Sports, where Pirates do really well overall but skew well beyond the 25-54 demo in age. With all proper respect to those older, that doesn't bring Root advertising revenue. And in our case, being web-based, that's a challenge for different reasons.

That's all me, Ray. It would be kind of odd if I were on the staff and not the hockey beat writer. I've been doing a lot of baseball and a touch of football, but hockey's still the bread and butter for me. Many big things planned for that beat, also. I'm really looking forward to it.

Josh as the beat writer do you plan to approach it truly as reporting what happened as DK has taught me is the role of the beat writer or will you be free to opine as a columnist as well?

Already got the best!

Indeed! Thanks!

Bucs>football in shorts

No they are not. Football on paper will still always be much more important in Pitt than any baseball game unless it is playoffs. This is a football town and always will be, plus with 10,567 games per year, 2 of them in the middle of the season means nothing.

It's BASEBALL season, mmallek104, and the Pirates are in the middle of a pennant race in which NO games are "meaningless." I totally get that this is Steelers Country, and I love, love, love following everything Steelers during FOOTBALL season...but could not care less about meaningless training camp in the middle of BASEBALL season. But I guess that's just me...

Love the Steelers and I'll read that coverage. I just think a Pittsburgh sports site should cover the in-season, playoff contending team if even with just one person. I'm talking about weighing oklahoma drills and pass skeleton against actual, meaningful games. That's all.

Good lord....Pirate baseball is way higher on the list than football practice. It wasn't even that interesting when the Pirates stunk.

Not saying above ^^^ as a dig against not covering the Twins series. Resources are finite. Just saying that season games are better than practice.

If we were basing such decisions on hit counts -- and we aren't -- we'd spend the entire week writing football and hockey.

The Pirates set a 4 game attendance record this past week, yet you (DK) are reporting comparatively poor TV viewership and site/app hits for the team. Do you see it as something you and the site could do to capture more Pirates fans or are you simply saying there aren't that many fans?

See elsewhere here about the demo involved.

Thanks. I had missed that post. Maybe I'll follow up on 10Qs

Technology Rocks!

Jose

I picture you pounding your shoe on the table.

Nikita never actually did that. The "shoe" was added to the pic later!

Jose

Woo-hoo!

You missed an announcement. Nate "didn't work out," but Dejan said he would probably still contribute some.

It was on Site Stuff two weeks ago

Thanks Karen22 & pieratz - I obviously missed that proclamation.

I think there are a lot of folks in your group, including me...don't have slightest concern for Stillers or Pens, but I'm not complaining (not that you are)...this is a great resource

You are apparently a member of the large minority. I will have to say though that I will give this great site the benefit of the doubt and say that the announcement of "Not Covering" was simply poorly worded and there will be some sort of acknowledgement of the games played to provide a discussion platform outside of the drunken comment fest of the game thread.

I'm with you also Karen. I love the Steelers, and i'm slowly forcing myself to become a hockey fan (mostly due to the in-depth info i'm able to gather from this site), but during baseball season it's all Buccos all the time for me.

I've loved and appreciated all of the very detailed Pirates coverage from DK & Co. so far, but here's hoping that the 15,000 subs & a dedicated Pirates writer are not too far over the horizon.

Kings I dont think we will get anything outside of a game thread unless there is a roster move. That was the case back when DK was on his own and an event was not attended for coverage. He also said he will never write an article based on what he sees from his couch. So look for a game thread and tjats it.

It was not omitted. It clearly states 14327 paid subscriptions.

We'll be back there when the penguins are. Thanks!

Should I break out the Sutter T-jersey now, or...?

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but I also think this is the time for a company to hear its consumers. Company quickly grow big enough to not hear individual customers.

I'd say it is more important than analyzing the cars and gadgets as Steelers players arrive at practice.

I read all of it, and my priority is Steelers, Pirates, Pens, but 1 baseball game is worth more than a football practice.

DK's statement was quick and probably being read wrong, but mostly subscribers that care about the Pirates a lot want to know that DK knows they care. Which he does, so that works well. Either way a cluster of comments on this thread isn't hurting anything.

How many times? 162 times.

I agree with you AJS. I care way more about the Buccos playoff push than football in shorts, but I guess I'm in the minority here. I hope DK and the gang make up for it with increased insider coverage this week.

Our coverage of Penguins development camp nearly quadrupled our traffic from Pirates that same week. This is Pittsburgh 2015. Baseball is an uphill climb.

For the record I am consistent. I didnt read any of the development camp stuff either. It boggles my mind that people care so much about that stuff.

OK I lied. I read the toughness article because I was in fact wondering where the toughness would come from on that team.

I enjoyed the curbside coveeage. When you root for a player and read how they teased the Head Coach, I feel like I'm getting to know the men I root for off the field.

Ya I should clarify my statements. I get DKs decision. And business wise it is sound. I was more commenting on my preferences and my reading habits and opuning on how I dont understand WHY people are so interested in daily updates that will surely be Cortez Allen still stinks and Antonio Brown is still good. Call me sometime around the third preseason game. I even get why the arrival day coverage was what it was. I just dont care to read that kind of thing. Others do. Kudos to them.

The Pirates are a clear No. 3 in this town, but we still invest more time, money and manpower in baseball that the rest.

Thanks for the consistent quality baseball coverage and insight. It's why I subscribed.

That pic was taken three years ago!

Be careful, Cloud, if you resist, he won't just make you pose for a new shot, he'll use it as the entry photo for a column that will be on the front page all day.

6.5 cents a day x 15000 ./. 100 (x7) + sponsorship explains a lot. As a small business owner I certainly can understand the concept of overhead. And overhead will win a lot of arguments. I for one am certain that the Minnesota series isnt being skipped because no one wanted to go.
Probably wouldn't have been as much of an issue if the boss would hace been less transparent by keeping the coverage issue on the down low.

I wouldn't say it quite as strongly, but I am a Pirate fan...
I gave up on football with all the legal garbage. Annnd I'm a NY Rangers fan but I have drifted from hockey since the the lockout.

I, too, am here for baseball.
That said, you guys do soo much great stuff.
I will say, covering two out of season teams heavy (Pens camp recently) and missing regular season games seems amiss.
Not complaining about value, but surprised at that decision...but absolutely no thought of cancellation. Still a great site.

Not upset at all over the lack of coverage in Minnesota. Short, two game interleague series against a non-marquee opponent.

I'm with you two guys as far as baseball. It's what I live for sports-wise.

Football, I can take it or leave it. All the legal stuff and concussions have become a real turn off. I still like hockey but my interest has waned over the past few seasons. I really don't see another Cup coming in the Crosby/Malkin/Fleury era and things definitely won't be the same once Mario cashes in. I used to be into Pitt basketball for a while but things have gone downhill there too.

As I said above, I'm a baseball fan. Never been a hockey fan (went to a fist fight once and a hockey game broke out). I root for the Steelers, but the best thing about the football season is it's that much closer to Spring Training.