Sunday morning brought the spring training preview in the Dallas Morning News’ sports section. After reading that over a nice omlette at breakfast, I then took to working on my site.
In the paper was the spring training roster. I went through the Uniform Number History section of my site and brought each number up to speed with the spring training assignments for 2006. The Rangers site also listed the non roster invites (which the DMN did not), so I’ve got everyone, except for the odd extra coaches who I usually have to find out right when spring training starts, as they’re generally not listed anywhere ahead of time. Also, some of the season staff (Bobby Jones for one) don’t have assigned uniform numbers on the Rangers site yet, and things like the bullpen catcher aren’t listed, either.
I also went through and did my 2006 Schedule pages. I normally would have them done by now, as the 2006 schedule has been known for awhile. However, I’ve been trying to think of a new way to do the schedules for 2006 that more involves my blogging software here, but I’ve been unable to come up with a really good automatic way, so I’ll probably just end up doing it the same way unless I can think of something (that works) between now and when games actually start in March.
Speaking of the schedule pages, I also have decided that I’m not going to go backwards (meaning from the 1999 through 2005 season archives I have here) and update the pages with the new menu look. There’s an absolutely incredible number of pages there – roughly 200 per season over the 7 seasons in the archives). I’m not planning on spending THAT much time on the site. Manually updating roughly 1,400 pages is a lot of work considering they rarely get looked at (even by me).
Also, don’t forget about my Yahoo fantasy league if you’re a regular site visitor. There’s details about it here. Thanks for visiting!