ColinAke.com…until I write a book.

Many of you know I started BravesBlast just over a year ago with Jonathan Torrell after talking about starting a Braves blog for some time.  I registered the domain name in July and we finally started blogging just over a year ago before the Braves were eliminated from the 2007 playoffs.

In the year since we’ve had ups and downs - the downs being mostly in the last few months. Either from exhaustion, boredom, or displeasure avoidance, we stopped blogging for the most part when it became evident that the Braves really actually sucked.  Before that, we were averaging 200-300 uniques a day, over twice that many page views, and tons of traffic.  That was, of course, prefaced by a long off-season during which I wrote posts as often as I could - a couple times a week.

But where to go from here? I’ve started writing over there again… mostly offseason stuff - what should we do, who goes where, who should we sign, not sign, etc.  Another blogger has approached us about buying it, but I’m not sure that’s still on the table.  We could write tons, build a bigger team, and try to become THE Braves blog, or we could accept that we’ve had some fun with it and pass it on to bloggers who will continue the BravesBlast legacy.

I’m leaning towards writing more… mostly because I really do enjoy writing and I really do think that by building a bigger team I won’t have to blog once a day, every day this year.  I do know I won’t be getting season tickets again - that was $250 down the drain because I didn’t go nearly enough to justify the purchase of season tickets.  If we go full-tilt, watch out for some ridiculous content.  It could be pretty ballin’.

Colin

I had the joy of shooting the Georgia Tech vs. Jacksonville State game last week - a fun game to shoot for a few reasons:

• The first game with Paul Johnson as GT’s coach.
• The first game featuring the triple option
• The first game of the season

It was quite an enjoyable game - thanks to Jon Drews for loaning me a very expensive lens and body I can’t afford to help capture everything.  Enjoy the pictures!

Josh Nesbitt Cutting Through the Jacksonville State Defense

Running back Jonathan Dwyer breaking off his first touchdown run.

Paul Johnson gives quarterback Josh Nesbitt a piece of his mind.

Roddy Jones celebrates after a touchdown late in the game.

Hope the pictures were enjoyed.  I love shooting sports - but football (especially night football) is particularly fun and more challenging than daytime football.  It was great to see the Jackets out of the gate strong and end up with their first win of the season.  Watch out, ACC.  Here we come.

Take care.

Colin