The Last Post
After 3 years and 105 posts, I have decided that this will be my last. To my small group of regular readers, I thank you for your support. I just didn't feel that a Blog that still draws an average of about 20 hits per day, and less than one feedback comment a month was worth keeping up. In spite of what I thought would be helpful exposure on two other excellent Mets blogs, Mike Steffanos' Mike's Mets and Joe DeCaro's Metsmerized, my readership hasn't grown at all.
If either Mike or Joe would like to run any of my old posts, they are welcome to it. At least I know they will be seen by a substantial number of Mets' fans and that is why I am grateful to them for having picked up some of my posts in the past.
As someone who remembers the Mets of Casey, Marv, and Choo Choo and everything that went on since, I felt I made a valuable contribution to preserving the legacy of the early days by posting my memories. But there are so many baseball blogs and probably several hundred on the Mets alone, so I don't think my voice will be missed.
The Mets are something I just can't get out of my blood. I nervously checked the internet for what seemed like a dozen times every day all winter to see if the Mets made any moves. For quite a while, it looked like a dismal off-season, but our GM not only landed the big prize in Santana, but stayed active after that by taking a flyer on a bunch of players who had some major league success in the past and just might spell the difference in a game or two in 2008. After last season, we know how important that can be.
To my two advertisers - although there will be no new posts, the Metscentric archive will remain available and the site is not being shut down, so if you want to continue to have your links posted after your present contract has expired, that's up to you.
If anyone wants me to be a guest blogger, I will consider it of course. Just drop me an email. It's been fun.
If either Mike or Joe would like to run any of my old posts, they are welcome to it. At least I know they will be seen by a substantial number of Mets' fans and that is why I am grateful to them for having picked up some of my posts in the past.
As someone who remembers the Mets of Casey, Marv, and Choo Choo and everything that went on since, I felt I made a valuable contribution to preserving the legacy of the early days by posting my memories. But there are so many baseball blogs and probably several hundred on the Mets alone, so I don't think my voice will be missed.
The Mets are something I just can't get out of my blood. I nervously checked the internet for what seemed like a dozen times every day all winter to see if the Mets made any moves. For quite a while, it looked like a dismal off-season, but our GM not only landed the big prize in Santana, but stayed active after that by taking a flyer on a bunch of players who had some major league success in the past and just might spell the difference in a game or two in 2008. After last season, we know how important that can be.
To my two advertisers - although there will be no new posts, the Metscentric archive will remain available and the site is not being shut down, so if you want to continue to have your links posted after your present contract has expired, that's up to you.
If anyone wants me to be a guest blogger, I will consider it of course. Just drop me an email. It's been fun.
posted by Metscentric at 12:40 PM
6 Comments:
Good luck in any future endeavors. It's been fun reading your stuff.
-Andrew V.
TheRopolitans.com
I guess that kid from jedichoas is getting more blog space for the Mets. I enjoyed your stuff. Thanks
I truly enjoyed your columns. especially your insightful analyses of past trades. I came to your sight after reading your sunday posts on Mike's Mets and just added your blog as a favorite just a few months ago.
Best of luck in your future endeavors. Enjoy yourself down in the Hotlanta area.
Thanks for your great work.
It's sad to see you go.
Thank you for everything these past years, and best of luck to you!
Amy (Coast to Coast Tickets, aka one of your two advertisers)
Very much enjoyed it, didn't visit often enough. Read somewhere -- oh yeah, on a blog about the Mets -- that Met blogs were pushing the 5-figure mark.
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