Question about the photos

Taking up more space. Just like almost every other website.

Scott Lucas is a beast. Truly beastly.

Every major national writer covering baseball needs to read it because I’m sure 95% of them don’t understand it. Concise and eloquent. Truly awesome.

the Ranger photos as I am some of the creepy crap that some of the posters put on the board.

I never want to see sound or video though. Thats when I left ESPN.

I have no real reason to check out many other sports websites for Rangers news, since LSB guides me to all of that, so I never have an occasion to see these pictures yet I enjoy seeing them whenever I do. Picture’s worth a thousand words.

I voted meh, only because that is not the reason I came here nor would it be a reason why I stay here. Photos are fine, but this place has the best intelligent discussion about a professional team anywhere on the web.

Just clutters up the front page posts, IMO.

mainly bc I don’t really go anywhere else for Ranger news.

Mainly because I get just about all of my Baseball news from here.

Don’t like it at all. Adds unnecessary clutter. The occasional picture isn’t bad, but adding pics to every other entrys a bit much.

-Buck Showalter, April 9th, 2009 11:42 PM

I got a call from a neighbor at our land up near Montague County to let me know they had given them 2 hours to evacuate at about 8:45. Took me an hour to get there in my truck along with a buddy and his truck as we violated every speed limit known to man. By that time they had gotten in down to only one lane headed up there but luckily we were 2 of about 10 people it seemed. We managed to get the tractor and trailer up to the end of the gravel road where they had some deputies posted to watch everyone’s stuff and shut down the roads. I counted 9 tractors and a handful of ATVs and vehicles parked there. Did a quick sweep to get some firearms, photos, fishing gear, etc. out of the cabin and into the trucks then hauled ass out of there. I’m crossing my fingers we don’t lose the cabin, bunkhouse, or barn but you could see some of the flames and it was incredibly dense with smoke.

I had asked my neighbor to douse the area around the cabin and bunkhouse this afternoon and he got it done but I really wasn’t thinking it would get that bad. Stupid on my part. One of the officers told me that they were hoping to get some helicopters in there overnight and were doing everything they could. We were one of the last people to head out on the road before they shut down the dirt roads to get back in where our place is. The wind is making it hell up there for the people fighting the fire. The best thing is we don’t have any cattle out there right now. A guy up the road had apparently been moving cattle all afternoon but still had about 20 head out there when he had to pull out.

It’s really just a get away place for us that we run a few cattle on every year, but mainly it’s a hunting a fishing place and family get together place. A lot of people up there, that land is their livelihood. Really bad situation.

but i hate it…like Daheel and LSJ said, way too much clutter. I love just the simplicity of blogs, and that’s why i loved the original format when it was atexasrangersblog.com or whatever your first website was…I like how it is now too, but when u add the pictures it looks very newspaper-webish (bleh!)…

K.I.S.S. :)

as long as you don’t start having too many of them, or photos with every post.

I think we can all agree that a post with text, photos, a graph, and a little graphic baseball player (Ichiro?) ad is a bit much.

Takes away from the oldschool feel of LSB.

i suppose in moderation it would be ok, but it clutters the page too much.

If we have to have the photos, keeping the captions as short as possible would be preferable (or better yet, if you could fix it so that the caption only pops up when you roll your mouse across the photo that would be ideal).

I’d say the caption on this entry’s photo of Andrus is a perfect example of what not to do.

I really, really like them. I think it adds another level to the blog. I do agree with Brandon’s point that the layout should be considered. May favorite layouts so far have been photo on top (the last two GDT’s) and yesterday’s AM things where it’s tucked in nicely.

While the others don’t bother me, they can look a little weird when the photo and caption is taking up twice the space as the text.

I just do not like the captions. Most are either too long or giving info that is not relevant.

We know “…after a baseball game against the Cleveland Indians, Wednesday, April 8, 2009, in Arlington, Texas.” , duh.