PSA: Posting articles

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Hey everyone,

 

We all love articles here. Especially with news flying left and right about Cespedes and the rest of MLB, articles get shared here.

 

But please, please, please do not post entire articles in your posts. It puts SoxTalk at risk for theft, because most of these sites rely heavily on clicks for their business purposes.

 

Just remember some rules of thumb:

 

1) Don't post premium-paid content that is behind paywalls. You can summarize it if you'd like, but not copy and paste it.

 

2) If you're posting an article, follow a format such as this:

 

Last season FanGraphs had a sobering article talking about regional / local television viewership when it comes to baseball. It was sobering because in the categories the story discussed and the graphs they presented in it, the White Sox were ranked last in the major leagues in viewership. That’s hard to believe in some ways given the size of the Chicago market and the area CSN Chicago covers. One would think smaller markets like Tampa Bay, Cincinnati, Cleveland or even Houston because of the issues they’ve been having with their regional provider would have fewer viewers but such is not the case, at least if you believe FanGraphs.

 

On one level it makes sense. The White Sox haven’t had a winning season since 2012, they haven’t made the playoffs since 2008 and they haven’t had consecutive winning seasons since 2003 through 2006. But to find the root causes of the Sox decline in television viewership and their overall impact in the market since the end of the “Golden Age” (1951-1967) you have to go back 47 years to when they left WGN originally and then, more importantly, back some 33 years when SportsVision was formed.

 

We’re going to tell you about SportsVision “Chicago’s Winners on Cable.” What it was, who started it, why it didn’t work and the consequences of it. As you read this you’ll be getting a history of televised baseball in Chicago through the years, the development of the cable and satellite industries, the changing landscape of how sports is delivered into your home and the friction and ego’s that came out in full force between the Sox owners and then main announcer Harry Caray.

 

Read More: http://www.chicagonow.com/soxnet/2016/01/t...f-sportsvision/

 

Post a snippet, then give everyone a link to follow. Putting it in quote brackets will help greatly distinguish your own thoughts from the work of others.

 

Thanks everyone for helping keep SoxTalk safe, while simultaneously helping drive traffic to places that provide content we discuss.