Although we are still seven months away from SABR 39, the Bob Davids Chapter and SABR staff are already making plans and getting ready, and this year you can keep up with all the news on this web site. We will be posting updates about convention planning, articles about Washington, D.C., and other news to help you prepare as we get closer to the convention, so you will want to be sure to keep up to date with what's here.

But you actually don't even need to visit the website to keep up - this is the first official SABR site to have an RSS feed. If you're already familiar with feeds, you can find the link on the right side of the page. But if you're not, let me explain, because you will be seeing more of these on SABR's pages in the future.

To put it simply, feeds are a way of finding out when websites you like are updated without having to visit the sites over and over again. You can get one program (or one website) to look at all of them for you and tell you when something changes. If you'd like a more detailed explanation than that, here is a good article on feeds. If you have a Google or Yahoo account, you already have access to a good feed reader, since both sites allow you to put feeds on your home page; click on the Google or Yahoo icon on the right, and it will take you directly to a page where you can add the SABR 39 feed to your page. Many other web sites and some programs allow you to do the same thing, but you may need to copy the "RSS 2.0" link and paste it into the page.

A feed reader isn't that useful with only one feed, though, so here are links to two more: The Sporting News's Baseball News feed and The Baseball Reference Bullpen's Today in Baseball History

If you have any questions about feeds in general or the feed from this site, send me an email - my address is pgarver@sabr.org. Otherwise, subscribe today and keep up! (And don't forget to register – there are only 8 days left to register for $85!)