Welcome to the New Site: NYaT.net

I love this blog. NY sports and 24 with a comedic/over analytical twist?
I'll take one.

-Commenter "Parch"

Welcome (or should I say Namaste?)! If you've found your way here, something worked correctly. I want to apologize for the downtime you may have experienced with the blog. The forwarding should have gone a lot easier, but, alas, it seems nothing is truly as easy as it seems with technology. As you can see, we've moved on from "No, You're a Towel" and we're now NYaT, which was our nickname anyways.

But now, after a little over a year in business, we're refocused. NYaT now also stands for: New York sports and Television. We're going to give you about 75% sports (and most of that will be New York Yankees baseball), about 20% TV and about 5% "other". We have fans of all the major New York area sports teams writing for the blog, but we'll also get into national topics as well.

What spawned this? Well, we've been wanting to change the name for a while. Not because we disliked the name (hell, I thought it was extremely creative, and judging by the messages I've gotten since I decided to change, many of you did as well), but more because we wanted to continue to grow and evolve. Everyone who watches South Park loves Towelie but as a blog that focuses on sports mostly should have something other than a pot-smoking, army-built towel as a theme. And this week, with more visitors coming than we've ever had, we've had another rallying cry to change the name.

But we're not letting "No, You're a Towel" die (and we'll still keep the Twitter account for a while). "No, You're a Towel" was the original name of the blog because that's what we would say to each other when our sports teams would get made fun of, but over time, it seemed to have lost it's meaning. Towelie will still be in our name and we won't change a lot else. Hopefully all the changes will be to the benefit of the readers. The design will change a bit on the site and hopefully make it easier to read. The content will be more focused. But hopefully we'll begin to be taken more seriously as a sports blog, a process that really took off this week. 

And if you have suggestions, just click the "contact" link at the top of the screen and let me know. I'm technically challenged, but I've really loved blogging and interacting with the readers and I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. Let me know what you like and what you don't like and hopefully we can make this a place you make a priority to visit multiple times a day. From Ari, Ben, Jay, Sarah and myself, we thank you for making this part of your online reading and we hope you subscribe to our feed/e-mail updates (on the right), become our friends on Facebook, Networked Blogs, and Twitter, comment on our posts with your thoughts and pass this along to your friends. We hope you love what you see.

Thanks!