A Call to Arms

Cuzittt

Bouncing with Anger
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Sinister Funkhouse #17
As you may all know, Football Central is churning out quality articles... pushing SoSH in a different direction.

What you may not know is... Football Central is only the beginning of SoSH global domination.

SoSH Central will be in the minor league business starting in the spring. But, the beginning of the journey starts NOW.

When we go live, we would like to have a bank of articles ready to go. Primarily, we are looking to do prospect profiles right now... but anything that isn't time sensitive and related to the minors would be accepted.

So, show your interest. If you have any prospect you want to do, show your interest. If you don't think your a great writer... don't let that stop you. We have editors... they can help.

If you have an interest in some other piece to help... let us know here. We would love to have "local scouts" be our eyes on the ground. If you want to help edit pieces, let us know. There is much work to do... any help will be greatly appreciated.
 

tbrown_01923

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i don't know if this will be  a help - but I am a software engineer and would be willing to lay some code down, if there was something we wanted to do systematically.
 

Snodgrass'Muff

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Mar 11, 2008
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I would love to contribute to this whether it is writing, editing or even some minor graphic design work. We have people here who are better than me at all three, but I think I can help. I love that you guys are doing this and can't wait to see where sosh will branch out to next.
 

Snodgrass'Muff

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I'm bumping this to draw a little more attention to it. There are some really insightful people in this forum and the SoSH Central venture into prospect-land could benefit greatly from your help. The platform they are using for controlling the workflow is intuitive and well organized, the people running it are incredibly helpful and the energy is really contagious. It's an extremely enjoyable environment. So if you love following Sox prospects and you feel like you are a decent writer, reach out. You don't need to be Alex Speier to be of value. Every article will go through a team of editors to make sure it's up to par.
 
They are planning to do prospect profiles on every player on a full season roster and want most of that content ready to publish before Spring Training starts. Contribute as much or as little as you are comfortable with. If you really like Blake Swihart and just want to do one piece on him, get in touch with Cuzittt to get your foot in the door, then focus on that piece. If you want to contribute one profile a week, great! Get in touch with Cuzittt.
 
There is a heavy need for content right now. Any kind of help will be welcome (editing, GIF generation, video editing, ect) but the site needs content more than anything else. Don't be afraid to step up and get involved.
 

Cuzittt

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Just to add on... we will be focusing on the entire minor league experience. If you don't want to do a player profile... maybe a coach profile is more where you want to go. Perhaps you have some ideas for a longer research piece. All ideas are welcome.
 

Jed Zeppelin

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I'd be happy to contribute. I've probably written more in this forum than any other (except maybe YFBS when LOST was on the air) so I'd like to think I know my way around prospectdom a little bit.
 

LondonSox

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I'd be interested in this, but I am concentrating on the football season for central right now, once that's in the offseason I'd be up for doing prospect stuff, I love the farm watching and my last adopt a prospect is pretty graduated too.
 

Snodgrass'Muff

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Mar 11, 2008
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Bumping this as we're getting ready to ramp up for the start of spring training. If you have previously expressed interest in helping out or have not, but would like to get involved (in any way you think might be helpful) please contact either myself or Rev (There Is No Rev) via PM and/or post here. We are rallying the troops and taking stock right now.
 
What we are looking for includes:
 
- content creators/writers
- editors
- graphics/animated gif submissions
- marketing gurus
- tech help
 
If you can help in any of those areas or can think of something I haven't listed that you think might be useful to us, please let us know! Our immediate goal is to have prospect profiles for as much of the farm as we can manage ready to go for the beginning of April. We are off to a good start, but the more content we have to roll out, the better. So if there is a prospect you really like that you'd like to write a profile for, please reach out. Even if it's just the one. Every little bit gets us that much closer to our goal and we will appreciate every contribution we get.
 

Reverend

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For what it's worth, if you can think of something you might be able to do that we haven't thought of, go ahead and pitch it.
 
It's not like we actually always know what we're doing. :) It's a process.
 

absintheofmalaise

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Mar 16, 2005
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We are still looking for people to help us out on the Central site. Any help will be greatly appreciated, but one thing we really need help with are prospect profiles. If you have any interest in helping us out in any way, please shoot me a PM.
 
Thanks