I was finishing a post about yesterday's Diamondbacks game. I was down to the last paragraph when I went to the Mets site to check something. This caused my open browsers to crash. I lost the blog post I was writing.
Now I know the Mets are going to crash and burn. But it doesn't mean the team website has to.
OK, so I'm an #### for actually writing a blog post in my browser instead of using Word or even notepad. But this isn't the first time a MLB team site has crashed my browsers. It's happened before and no doubt will happen again.
I'm using Firefox, so it isn't an IE thing. When I use IE, it asks me to temporarily download fonts used on MLB pages.
WHY? So much of MLB.com pages make me ask this over and over again.
WHY? WHY?
Why is there so much #### on each team's homepage? Video, audio, flash, voodoo, something that slices and dices and makes julienne fries. Do we need all this on the homepage?
What are these mysterious fonts? I'm pretty sure Bud Selig's BS could come across in simple Times New Roman.
I know of free porn sites that load with less trouble and run smoother than MLB.com sites.
I can't be the only one this stuff happens to. And I seem to get some sort of issue on any MLB site at least once a week. And while I'm not the most computer-savvy guy around, I'm willing to bet I'm in the top 49% of computer-savvy Americans. Which means most Americans aren't as computer-savvy as me.
And asking them to temporarily download fonts and causing their browsers to crash could just keep them from ever visiting a MLB site again.
Now I'm not asking MLB to make their sites so simple that even the idiots who OK'd Barry Zito's fat contract could manage to log-on. Just maybe simple enough so that Yogi Berra could get on without technical difficulties.
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I was a lifelong Chicagoan until June 30, 2007, when my girlfriend and I spent our first night in our new home in Phoenix.
Chicago is a great city, but it was time for a new adventure. I had a good-paying job that was a pain in the BLEEP. I had winters and snow. I had high taxes and fees for everything.
Phoenix is also a great city. They don't nickel-and-di me you to death. And the weather! They don't sell snow shovels and icemelt here. Oh baby, the weather!
And as a baseball fan, I have a great job. I look forward to going to work for the first time in years. I actually have fun while working.
