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April 1, 2011WFNY Roundtable: Your 2011 Cleveland Indians
April 1, 2011With the Cavaliers season finally winding down and the NFL off-season in full dormancy due to lockout, there just isn’t a whole lot to talk about right now in sports. The Indians will provide some relief, but if recent trends persist and the Tribe falters this season it could be a really long year for us here at WFNY. So, we’ve decided to diversify a bit. Much like we have talked about events like the Olympics and World Cup in the past, we are going to extend ourselves a bit in hopes of adding to the breadth of covered content here on the site.
As it turns out one area of local news that could use a few new voices is local politics. We’ve realized that with the writers we already have here, we have a passionate group on both the right and the left and a couple in the center. With recent topics like SB5 being so big in local news, we feel like as we suffer to fill up these pages every day that we could easily weigh in. The comments sections would be really interesting because of our existing policies regarding personal attacks, language and civility.  The way we see it, we can’t afford not to do it in order to keep the site vibrant and relative even as our sports teams fail us.
As it turns out in the modern age, politics have really become a lot like sports anyway. There are only two basic teams and almost everybody has a rooting interest. As with WFNY we will keep it largely local. Â For example, we will only cover the office of the President when we deem that his policies directly impact a local law, budget or project. Certainly we will now be covering all his visits to the Buckeye state and we hope to secure press access.
It is exciting for us as we take WFNY to a new level by branching out. While we were coming to this decision we also considered covering local bands, restaurants and art galleries. We still may do that down the road. As always, you will be the first to know.
Thanks for reading. Without you guys, none of this would be possible.
36 Comments
….and now I can erase WFNY from my Favorites
The reason I come here 10 times a day while at work is to get away from all of that nonsense.
We have a baseball team to talk about every day this summer…2 lottery picks for a basketball team…and the sheer joy of watching the Browns.
Good one!
Worst idea you guys have ever come up with….This site was a nice outlet from all of that crap that we run into on a daily basis. Now we will get to read about which political party is worse and why. Super psyched…
Good one Craig, I’m not fooled though. I know what day it is.
I smell tomfoolery. SHENANIGANS EVEN.
lolol you had me.
First thought was “wow, some people are going to hate that”. Second was “ha! Wfny is a good slogan for at least about half the politically inclined…” Then I read the comments and thought “well played, maestros, well played…”
well done guys
This better be April Fools. I check this site at least a dozen times a day and will go down to zero.
This probably should have been titled WFNY “Psych!” News
Did you guys like my graphic? 🙂
america! f yeah! ameeeeerrrica…
Checks calendar…smirks.
Sidd Finch should have had the byline!
APRIL FOOLS!
yeah good joke. saw the headline on twitter and had to read the story.
well played…
TouchĂ© good sirs… well played.
@ scott- HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
anyway, have you heard about Teddy Roosevelt’s new economic policy? No new taxes on monocles and moustaches??!!? Where is this country heading?!?
that’s almost as a good as replacing the sugar with flour in the canister by the coffee pots
First headline story “VOTE OR DIE CAMPAIGN KILLS 7 ON EAST SIDE AFTER DATA CARD MALFUNCTION”
WFNY: where the only left and right that matter go by “Kearns” and “Choo.”
Will we ever learn more about this: “we have a passionate group on both the right and the left and a couple in the center.”
Name names!!!
The Onion Part Deaux
You had me, too. I’m just really slow.
Bravo!
…later, the WFNY crew discuss how wise it was to test reader reaction to the idea of branching into politics on april fools day, while lamenting that they now do actually need to find something else to write about once may hits…
There’s always the ‘Great Mustard Debate’ to fall back on, guys.
@Denny – did we ever figure out which mustard was the original mustard in Cleveland Stadium?
Is it Bertmann’s or is it Cleveland Stadium? The public wants, no needs, to know!
http://allthingsclevelandohio.blogspot.com/2008/06/clevelands-great-mustard-debate.html
Wait, does this mean Trivisonno will go back to talking sports tomorrow and our long city-wide nightmare is over?
lol… well done. You guys honestly had me going for a bit. 🙂
It’s not fair when you read this just after your plane from Germany lands. Jet lag + lack of cultural connection = gullible, I suppose. Well done.
Wow, you almost had me posting on SB5.
This really is my place to escape all that nonsense where we can all agree that we want to see Cleveland teams improve (other than some occasional Celtics fans)
Just make another site.
waitingfornextelection.com