I don't know Sinins, have never met him -- we have exchanged a very few baseball/Web-related e-mails -- but this occasion demands two things: (1) that as a subscriber I take a moment to express how disappointing -- while understandable, certainly -- this is; and (2) that as a baseball fan, we take a moment to say "Thanks, Lee."
Not all is lost, however ...
... as Sinins himself followed his long explanatory e-mail with another short note that read thus:
- There is one other thing that I just realised. Earlier in the year, I purchased atm-reports.com
and have been placing the reports there each day. That site is already
set up as a blog and now that the reports are gone, there is no reason
why I shouldn't just continue to run that site, but as a when I think
of things to write situation. I really have no idea how much writing I
will do, but there is no reason why I need to just disappear.
I admit, I am one of the readers who drove Sinins away. As he wrote in his resignation e-mail, "People on the list are speaking very loudly with their wallets that the reports are not worth supporting [through purchase of Sinins' Complete Baseball Encyclopedia]. It may have taken me a while to get the message, but I've got it. Whether or not you had supported me, I hope you enjoyed the reports. It is time to move on."
I can't speak on behalf of every reader, Lee, but I certainly enjoyed them; in fact, I looked forward to them every day. But if it's time to move on, you need to make that call; accept our "thank you" and, as they like to say here in Toronto, touch 'em all.
