WGOM Sponsorships

There was some consensus behind sponsoring a player on baseball-reference.com. There's enough money in the WGOM piggy bank that if the community wants it, we could sponsor a player or two.

First, a poll whether the community wants to do it. I'm thinking the total amount spent on sponsoring pages will be $50.

Should we sponsor some pages on B-R.com?

  • Yes (71%, 20 Votes)
  • No (29%, 8 Votes)

Total Voters: 28

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While we're here, we should also discuss who or what to sponsor. Nominate your choices below and in a few days, I'll put up another poll to vote on what will actually be sponsored. Also, don't forget the message that will be displayed with the sponsoring. We have 255 characters to abuse.

38 thoughts on “WGOM Sponsorships”

  1. I love the Earl Battey suggestion. We could add Scott Ullger for $10 and have a contest for the "description" of his work.

      1. I'm in favor of the Battey sponsorship. Light Rail would be ok, too, but I think I'd prefer to let that money fester for future needs of the .org.

  2. I say do it. I'd also like Light Rail. Seems like a good person to attract the kind of people we'd want around here.

    1. Going by the voting results, we maybe have plenty of the kind of people we are here already.

      Did that make sense? It did when I said it, but typing it messed with my head.

  3. I think the sponsorship is a great idea. I've thought of sponsoring a page or two on my own, but I don't have the money to blow. It doesn't matter much to me who it is as long as it's someone related to the Twins, which I'm sure it would be.

  4. This is a very good idea. I would also like to throw Anthony Swarzak into the suggestion pool. He's available for a very reasonable $30, and I feel like some fun could be had with the message.

  5. I agree with picking someone likely to get the kind of traffic we want over at the WGOM. I think the message should represent that as well.

    I'll stick by my suggestion for Earl Battery. I also like Scott Baker.

    Other cheap pages I could go for. Brian Harper. Shane Mack. Randy Bush.

    1. what is wrong with you people? Nobody seems to be willing to spell Pearl Batten's name correctly.

  6. Scott Baker is a good choice

    Corey Koskie is available for $35, although I imagine he doesnt generate many page views

  7. If this is in addition to a rainy day fund, then I'm 100% for it. I dunno what all could go wrong with the site and how much we'd need to fix it, but having a little extra stashed away seems like a good idea.

  8. I'd rather people pooled together with the intent to sponsor a page if that is what they want to do. When I donated I assumed that it was going to keeping this site up and running, and not pay for something like this.

    That said, I guess I'm in a small minority and what the majority decides is fine, but I don't really see what we gain by sponsoring a page.

    1. Hmm, you bring up a good point that has caused me to think about this a little more. What do we gain? If we're looking to expand readership, I'm sure there are better ways. I, for one, have never clicked on a sponsor's ad on BR. If it's just because we've got money to burn, Save it and make the fund drive every 18 months instead of yearly (or whatever the numbers come out to). Or if it's just for the laugh of an inside joke, maybe that should be a separate drive?

    2. this is a pretty good point that i hadn't really considered.

      i guess my feeling behind it is we did very well in our donations, much better than we'd anticipated. as a site, we heavily utilize B-R, so it seemed like a good way to give a little back to them, as well as throw our name around on the internets for like-minded people like us (twins fans, stat friendly, etc.) to see. while i still like the idea, i can understand this position.

      maybe, if we take this to another round of voting on which specific page to support, we can put an option for "no one" since this position hadn't really been discussed, but a majority of people still supported the sponsorship.

        1. in all honesty, that was more a fringe benefit for me. my vote wouldn't have much to do with what would garner the most traffic.

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