I Love You, Bleacher Report, but Something Has To Change

I would first like to thank Bleacher Report for the opportunities it has offered me as a writer. It has given me the opportunity to work on the site FanHuddle with the Boston Bruins.

I love Bleacher Report. B/R has given me the opportunity to meet new and great people from all over the world. I have spoken to people from Scotland, Seattle, Los Angeles, and right in my home state of Maine. Bleacher Report has given me the opportunity to make my voice heard in the crowded world of sports media.

And I thank Bleacher Report for that. I'm 14 years old and a freshman at Deering High School in Portland, Maine. I joined Bleacher Report in June of 2009, during eighth grade at Lincoln Middle School. I was recently promoted to Analyst from Scribe. I love to write. I've loved writing since second grade.

But, two of whom I'd like to call my personal friends on Bleacher Report have recently been, for lack of a better phrase, screwed over by the B/R brass.

Robert Domaine and Revo Boulanger. Boulanger was my first fan on Bleacher Report. He gave me my first Pick of the Day vote, on a Boston Bruins article.

Revo quicky became one of my personal friends, defending me when I got into comment arguments some of my more opinionated articles.

Revo left Bleacher Report in late July, because of mistreatment and mismanagement on the B/R brass' part. He was a Senior Writer and the leader of the Boston Bruins community here on B/R. He published several articles toward the end of his tenure here on Bleacher Report about how he had been mistreated by Bleacher Report, even going so far to call the site a "cesspool."

Revo Boulanger was terminated within weeks after his final article, blasphemy in the eyes of Almighty Bleacher Report, was published.

Robert Domaine is still on Bleacher Report. However, many of you have seen his most recent article, "You Are Not a Unique Snowflake: An Open Letter to All of Bleacher Report." In it, he describes how he lost the "Syndicated Writer" tag that every one of us Bleacher Creatures gets the moment we publish our first article on this site.

He lost it because, according to Bleacher Report, he wasn't a good enough writer.

Robert Domaine has an AOTD, a 99 percent superstar rating on CBS Sports, and 542 fans. I'm one of them. He, like Revo Boulanger, is also a Senior Writer. How can a Senior Writer not be granted syndication status on his own site?

I am writing this article as a concerned citizen of the B/R nation. I no longer want to see good B/R writers leave the site because of mistreatment. Writers who are of the quality of Revo Boulanger and Robert Domaine deserve respect, and Bleacher Report simply refused to give it to them.

I am writing this article because I don't want to see gratuitous mistreatment any of us B/R writers go on any longer.

Robert Domaine, Revo Boulanger, and dozens of other B/R writers have poured the hearts and souls into this site.

Like I said before, I am 14 years old, I live in Portland, Maine, and have been on Bleacher Report for almost six months. I have recently been promoted from Scribe to Analyst. I love to write. And I love to write for Bleacher Report.

But if more of my friends are mistreated on this site, I simply won't stand for it.