About Us

BravesBlast is currently looking to expand its staff of writers. If you’re qualified, have a good sense of what’s going on in baseball, and are interested in writing one article a week, fill out our Mailbag form.

BravesBlast is a blog started by friends Jonathan Torrell and Colin Ake in the summer of 2007. They and their staff strive to make BravesBlast a place for solid commentary and discussion on the Braves and related subjects.

Staff

Colin Ake is the site’s main writer and content manager. He manages to write content whenever something big happens in the Braves, keeps track of what all is going on in the world of baseball on a peripheral level. As a result, he sometimes posts without researching “facts” like when people’s contracts end, whether a pitcher is a righty or lefty, and goes on his gut. He’s part Matt Drudge, part Stephen Colbert. He has far too many ideas, most of which will never come to fruition. He also runs the site’s Twitter profile and the miserably failed Facebook page. He’s a co-founder of BravesBlast.

Follow Colin personally on Twitter / visit Colin’s personal website

Jonathan Torrell is the site’s technical guru and editor. He owns far too many season tickets to fill and runs game discussion threads, manages the site’s MySpace presence, and posts whenever he gets around to it (or Colin is out sick/busy). His “real job” is a drag on BravesBlast, but he makes up for it by SlingBoxing games around wherever he needs to, proofreading Colin’s posts, and managing server issues. He’s a co-founder of BravesBlast.

Follow Jonathan personally on Twitter / visit Jonathan’s personal website

Rue Grant is the site’s chief female officer. Her job is to offer a female’s input on all things Braves related. She also researches and writes great articles on young prospects, even if it means learning other languages to do so. She lands interviews with players because she’s cute, and collects pictures of herself with Frank Wren. In her allocated time, she works as a full-time mechanical engineer and a part-time personal trainer. She also has a crush on Buddy Carlyle. Once she asked Kelly Johnson to step out of a picture so it was just her and Buddy Carlyle.

Follow Rue personally on Twitter, if she lets you.

Akshay Amaraneni is a sports journalist with a grasp on all things college sports related as well as Braves baseball. Don’t ask him to pull for the Falcons, though, because he’s far too into the Saints. Akshay can write entire books on the state of any division in baseball at any given time. Don’t tempt him.

Kent Covington writes for BravesBlast occasionally – and some very high quality articles at that. He’s a business radio show host professionally and hopes to one day broadcast a show on baseball. He’s a sucker for long walks on the beach, but he’s already happily married. He’s a lifelong Braves fan and is old enough to remember the days when we really sucked.

Follow Kent on Twitter here.

Dan Fisher works with the Braves marketing department and wrote for us some last summer. We’re hoping that if we’re nice, he’ll write for us again soon. Dan gets baseball.