Greetings to all, and I hope you are doing well.

It’s an exciting time in the sports world, particularly here in Pittsburgh. The Steelers are just one week away from kicking off their season, the Penguins open training camp in a matter of days, and the Pirates, well…aren’t mathematically eliminated yet, so, yay.

In my opinion, this is the best time of the sports calendar for this town. And I do hope to continue to write all my thoughts and ideas on the happenings of these teams. But, as you may have noticed recently, I haven’t been publishing as many stories here.

It’s been a busy few months, and as the calendar turns to autumn, that’s only going to increase. I’m back to a schedule that revolves around college classes, and an increased role at my job has left me with much less free time than I expected (or frankly, hoped for).

All of this is to say that, while I wish I could still write and publish on this site at my previous volume, these first few weeks of the semester have shown me I cannot. And so, in addition to changing the amount of stories coming out here, I will also be making changes to subscriptions.

Starting today, I am ending the paid subscription tier on Fifth Avenue Sports. If you are a paid subscriber, I want to thank you for your generosity over the months or years. Knowing that anyone out there was willing to spend hard-earned money on my work is a feeling I will forever cherish.

In an ideal world, I could write and publish here every day, like I used to do back when this website was still in the very early days. Unfortunately, there are only so many hours in a day, no matter how much sleep I put off.

In the end, I have come to the realization that I cannot produce at the level necessary to still have the paid tier of the website. And it would not be fair to charge anyone for that access, when the amount they are paying for is plummeting.

In the coming days, I will go through the process of ending current payments from paid subscribers to ensure you aren’t paying for a fraction of what you used to get. There’s enough of that going around right now.

I will still try to write here as often as I can, but I have used these last few weeks as data on how much time I will have in any given week, and have decided this is the best course of action moving forward.

I want to thank you all sincerely, paying subscriber or not, for reading anything I have published here, and I do hope you still check in every now and then to see what I’ve been writing. Until then, my friends!