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PhilsRHman Well Established Member

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Wanted to share this with the board. My day job is at Metro newspapers, which has daily editions in New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Long Island, so we partnered with TheSandTrap.com to run staff predictions in print. It ended up running in New York, Philadelphia and Long Island, which has a combined daily readership of more than 800,000 people (we actually have the fourth largest audited circulation of all US papers but since we're free, we don't get as much love as USA Today, etc).

Here are a few links to the pages themselves as they appeared in this morning's papers. I thought you guys would get a kick out of it.

http://www.readmetro.com/show/en/Philadelphia/20110407/2/16/

http://www.readmetro.com/show/en/NewYork/20110407/2/20/

http://www.readmetro.com/show/en/MetroLongIsland/20110407/2/10/

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Thanks for sharing, very cool to see that!

Besides, that can only help in my master plan to unseat and take the place of some of the analysts on Golf Channel and/or other networks

J/K, but very cool, exposure like that cant do anything but help the site grow.

 
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That is weird seeing TST in there. The Metro is distributed to local commuters outside my NYC subway stop during the morning rush. Congrats.

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Clambake Great Member

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Print media?   What's that?   Oooh, now I remember....it was that stuff on paper we used to read that got ink on our hands.     How quaint.     :-)

Seriously, good exposure though.     Although I have to disagree with columnist Justin who said he wouldn't shell out $500 to play any course but might make an exception for Augusta.    When your invite comes and you're told it will cost you a few grand to play there, I hope you stick by your guns and say no thanks....and then please immediately p.m. me and I'll be on the next flight to Georgia to take your place.

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Originally Posted by Clambake

Although I have to disagree with columnist Justin who said he wouldn't shell out $500 to play any course but might make an exception for Augusta. When your invite comes and you're told it will cost you a few grand to play there, I hope you stick by your guns and say no thanks....and then please immediately p.m. me and I'll be on the next flight to Georgia to take your place.

Ron asked to have some things reprinted from our two columns.

http://thesandtrap.com/b/thrash_talk/staff_roundtable_all_about_the_masters

http://thesandtrap.com/b/thrash_talk/staff_predictions_2011_masters

FWIW, I said I wouldn't spend more than about $250. I wouldn't.

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Clambake Great Member

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Originally Posted by iacas

FWIW, I said I wouldn't spend more than about $250. I wouldn't.


In that case, please consider me your grateful substitute when you have to turn down your invite.    I'll pm you my cell number if the Augusta member who invites you feels time is of the essence and there is a threat he'd call someone else.     My clubs are always in the car and I can be at the airport within 45 minutes notice.    Oh, and I'll also gladly make a generous contribution to the Sand Trap operating fund as well.      :-)

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I said a couple thousand. If only I had a couple thousand to spend on golf...

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ControlJunkie Great Member

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Originally Posted by Clambake

Print media?   What's that?   Oooh, now I remember....it was that stuff on paper we used to read that got ink on our hands.     How quaint.     :-)

Seriously, good exposure though.     Although I have to disagree with columnist Justin who said he wouldn't shell out $500 to play any course but might make an exception for Augusta.    When your invite comes and you're told it will cost you a few grand to play there, I hope you stick by your guns and say no thanks....and then please immediately p.m. me and I'll be on the next flight to Georgia to take your place.



Go back and re-read what I said... Actually, I'll save you the jump, here it is:

It's hard to say. Until last year, I said there's no way I'd ever pay $500 to play anywhere, but after visiting Pebble Beach for the U.S. Open, my stance on that changed. Augusta is almost a whole different level, but I know I'd pay at least the same as what I'd pay to play Pebble, likely even more.

Opinions/stances change after you see things in person, makes you appreciate it more. Having never seen Augusta in person, but knowing how much more Pebble blew my mind after seeing it in person, I cant imagine. Hopefully one day I will see it in person :-)

 
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Yeah! We made it. We did it guys! We're big time now. To all the detractors, to all those who said we'd never make it, to anyone who ever blew us off or planted a see of doubt that kind of rocked our confidence a bit,  IN YOUR FACE !

Wait. The Metro? What's that? Oh..

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