My Quick Goodbye
July 29, 2012 at 2:52 pm by Kevin Orris under Atlanta Braves
When I first began writing about baseball five years ago, I did so with the intention of building a network to one day work for a team in a full-time capacity. After moving from site to site, completing various internships, interviews and special assignments, I have finally accomplished my goal of joining a team and will be leaving Capitol Avenue Club and ESPN, effective immediately.
Over the past few months, the frequency of my writing has diminished as my focus has shifted towards a career in sports marketing, public relations and social media. I apologize for the lessened content on my end, but it was made possible with the additions of Franklin, David and Ethan this season. As I depart, I am confident that the current staff or writers will continue to provide the most in-depth Braves analysis available.
As of tomorrow, I will begin working as a Social Media and Research Analyst for an NFL team and will put my baseball writing career behind me. Although my long-form writing will disappear, I can assure you that my personal friends dislike, my incessant Braves tweeting (@kevinorris) will continue.
Thank you again for your loyal readership and eternal dedication to CAC. Thanks also to Peter for providing me with the initial opportunity here and Ben for covering me whenever I was too lazy to write something.
Finally, the internet tells me John Gay once said, “We only part to meet again.” I don’t know who John Gay is, but who knows … we may meet again.
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Hey congrats on the new job Kevin, glad your hard work has paid off. Unfortunately I still have to be a Steelers fan. Good luck with everything and thanks for everything you did here on CAC. It is much appreciated.
Good luck with the Rams, I always enjoyed your writing on this site, as well as the podcasts. Hopefully we will see you writing for the Braves in the future.
Thank you Kevin!
You will be missed. Congrats on the new job! Thanks again.
Congratulations and best wishes, Kevin! You’ll be missed on here.
Much success in your new role with the Rams!
Good luck, Kevin. Best wishes.
May you prosper on your future endeavors. Here, take a 12 pack of happy while your at it, lol. Really, good luck dude!
I’m glad to hear this, Kevin! I had been wondering why I haven’t seen any content from you recently. Hope to hear from you frequently through twitter.
Good luck to you on your future endeavors.
Congratulations, Kevin! You’re going to have a great career!
BTW, what did happen to Peter? He was an amazing writer; where did he go?
Peter is in medical school. He still tweets, @capitolavenueclub
Nice work Kev! Go get wasted to celebrate
Good luck, Kevin. Shame to see you go.
AH SHIT! I actually kept meaning to write “where the hell has Kevin been?” for the past week. And there you go, off to the Rams! Good luck with that, and at least try to find some time to write an article or two if you ever get the chance.
Best of luck. Thanks for all your hard work building this blog.
Not a big fan of the Rams, but I have enjoyed reading your articles. Best of luck!
Tell Sam Bradford he sucks.
The Rams!!! Thats my team! I’ll be checking you out
Thanks, Kevin. Good luck, and don’t forget the Process.
Thanks for all your work Kevin. Best of luck with your next job.
Congrats on the new gig man!
KO, thanks for your great work and good luck on your new job!
Go Bravo!
Cheers from China
Good luck Kev!
Good luck Kevin! Your work will be missed. Great job at CAC.
Who’s Peter?
The site’s original owner and writer, Peter Hjort, was awesome. You can follow him on Twitter, as mentioned above, and you can also go back and read all of the previous blog entries by changing the URL after the ?p= to 1 and then go from there. There’s some awesome reading going back to, I believe, the 2009 season.
I’ve been around this area for a long time, and was able to see the changes from adding Kevin and then Ben, to having Peter step down, then Franklin, David and Ethan coming on board. It has been great to see the variety of work, but Peter has been my favorite writer of the bunch.
I guess you could also just go click on the archives drop-down on the right side. That’ll probably be easier.
St. Louis is not in southeast Missouri. I hope you don’t get lost.
Best wishes Kevin, and thanks for the contributions at CAC, can’t remember one I didn’t enjoy.
Oh i know who peter is. Was just trying to antagonize him into dropping out of med school and returning to his blog