Raptors content moved to RaptorsRepublic.com

Good morning.
Instead of the normal blog today there’s some big site news. To put it in a a singular sentence let’s just say there won’t be any any more Raptors talk on this blog. It will return to the team that it was originally created for – The Arsenal.

Now you’re wondering what will happen to the daily Raptors talk that has become the norm in this space and whether you’ll have to look elsewhere for your Raptors content. The answer is yes, you’ll have to look elsewhere and arsenalist.com will no longer give you your daily Raptors fix. The good news (if you can stand me) is that I’ll be coming along with you. A few of us bloggers have “joined forces” and put our resources together to build one great site rather than have a few good ones.

Myself along with Dinosty.com, AltRaps.com and RaptorsTalk.com have come together to create a brand new Raptors website which is so much more than that. These latter two websites will still run on their own for a while and will possibly merge with the mothership in their entirety. Dinosty has been brave enough to shut down his entire operation and dedicate himself to the new project. Needless to say, I’ve also emigrated all the Raptors content from Arsenalist.com over to the location and I hope that you all can join us there. This is an entirely non-profit venture and nobody’s getting rich off of it, more on that in the next few weeks to come. It’s done entirely for the love of the team and the sport.

This was a long overdue move. I’ve always had discussions about creating one great resource for Raptors fans and I have to thank Dinosty for bringing this idea up again in early September. Once he pitched it, it was a matter of finding the right people to execute the job and I think it’s been a job well done.

So without further ado, I present to you RaptorsRepublic.com.

This is the first version of the site and we plan on growing very fast and will have some growing pains as we go into uncharted territory. There’s tons of information on the site including a stat tool that you can easily waste days on. There’s tons of video and pictures along with other goodies already on the site and they’ll be updated daily.

Most of all its a community rather than just a website and the first sign of a community is an official Raptors party. In fact, we have 21 of them – every Friday game night at Philthy McNasty’s we’re going to create our own Sea of Red. I also hope to meet a lot of you who’ve been daily visitors to this blog for quite some time.

I’ll be a daily writer for the Raptors Republic so if you happen to enjoy some of the stuff that’s written here, don’t worry, it just happened to move, not disappear. If you’ve subscribed to the Raptors RSS feed of this blog you won’t miss a beat as any new content from RR will be directly fed to your RSS reader. If you haven’t been using the RSS feed its time you did by clicking here.

That’s all there is to it. Thanks to everybody for making a site called Arsenalist one of the best Raptors blogs out there. It’s the comments that make the site good, not the actual articles. Head on over to RaptorsRepublic.com and give us your thoughts by commenting on the intro post. It’s party time today, we’ll talk about the mediocre preseason tomorrow.

Thanks to everyone!