The Most Valuable Network is shutting down.
I remember being recruited by MVN in late 2006. The three River Ave Blues guys had just departed for their new site, and the network needed someone to cover the Yankee minor league system.
Three months later, they had hooked me up with a press pass for the Trenton Thunder, and I had already written a set of 30 prospect profiles for the Yankees prospects. We organized a 30-writer 1st round mock draft, and at one point had almost filled 30 major league and 30 minor league blogs, to make sure that every baseball team was covered.
I remember how Pending Pinstripes and The Bronx Block spent about a year and a half trying to best each other in the monthly MVN page rankings (Pending Pinstripes always won). I remember recruiting Eric, Moshe, and others to fill spots that opened on the blogs. There were a lot of good times.
Rest in peace, MVN.
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TIQ IQ
Yeah, it is sad. they gave me my start, and for that I will always be grateful.
Used to love reading their work (or, I used to love reading your work there, EJ, as well as the stuff from the RAB guys). I wrote there for a few months earlier this year, then stopped. RIP, MVN.
I too got my start at MVN, and I am forever grateful for that opportunity. I owe a great deal of my networking success from that time writing at MVN. Best of luck to Evan in the future.
Eric
Sad news, though hopefully the bloggers will catch on elsewhere. Lots of good memories at MVN.
Sad to see it go, but it hasn’t been the same for a while now.
MVN had me take over The Bronx Block a couple of months ago. I received close to nothing in compensation. But from what I understand, it was a good site for sports fanatics.
It had been surpassed by SBNation a long time ago, which did everything MVN did, but much nicer.
Sad to hear as I used to follow many of the guys who write here over there. But that site pretty much died a year ago, still sad that its officially gone.