Review: Baseball Musings
After that depressing Superbowl last week I don’t have anything to say about football, which means that baseball season is just around the corner. Less than a week until pitchers and catchers report, so it’s time for baseball. Baseball Musings looks like a great place to check out the upcoming season. Let’s see how it does.
Design
At first glance the design seems to be fine. Simple to read, looks fairly easy to navigate. Search box, check. However, there are a few things that Baseball Musings could improve upon. While I fully support writers earning money with ads on their webpages, some of the ads on the right column of Baseball Musings seem unprofessional and do not match the rest of the layout or the professional content of the site. I’d like to see something that blends in better, along with more relevant ads. (They would most likely earn more than the grocery coupons there now.) My other suggestion while small, would improve the navigation of the site. The title banner should be a link back to the home page of the site. It makes it easier for a reader who is lost in the archives or comments to get back to the main page of the site. While I’m discussing the banner–why doesn’t it go all the way across the top?
Content
I know I just trampled the design of Baseball Musings, but all is not lost. Although the site concentrates on on-field news, i.e. player trades, there are still some articles that discuss business of baseball. Overall the sport content is great quality and the business content that’s there is good also.
Links
The far right column provides a plethora of links to baseball and sports related pages, most of them more sports than business oriented though.
Price
Price is great, it’s free!
Overall
Overall this a good website for a baseball enthusiast, but it doesn’t have a huge amount of sport management content. Definitely a place to check if you are looking for baseball information though.
