Meet the Mets bloggers: My Summer Family

Another series I’m pleased to resume now that I’ve made it to the new design is Meet the Mets Bloggers.  If you’d like to tape part, just answer the three questions below (and as a fellow blogger you’ll know it makes my life easy if you clean it up so I can just cut and paste).  Here’s Taryn.

1.) Who are you and what’s the name of your blog?

My name is Taryn Cooper, but you may know me as Coop, The Coop or The Coopinatrix (as the fellas over at Brooklyn Met Fan have been known to call me). I started the site My Summer Family in the offseason of 2007. MSF is a passionate narrative from a die-hard Met fan who spends WAY too much time at the ballpark(s)* in the summer time (*not just CitiField but following the Mets around as well).

2. What kind of things can we find on your site?

You will find a little bit of everything. Game recaps, feelings on the team and players, traveling (I did a West Coast Trip last year that got me many followers on Twitter), pictures, events. The only thing I don’t claim to be is a stat head, though you might find some elementary number crunching to support my theories. I am a passionate fan, so I’ll call out anyone from fans to media to players themselves. You may hear about my “fan girl crushes” as I talk about freely, which include Tim Lincecum and my all-time favorite baseball player Cal Ripken. Just a note: it’s all purely professional. I do the Roll Call each year which is devoted to the special people I am able to meet because of our Mets community (hence the whole “summer family” thing). I also have a mouth like a truck-driver, so my site is not for the faint of heart.

3. Expectations for 2010?

Each year, I have lowered my expectations for various reasons and after the abysmal 2009 campaign, I feel like they cannot possibly get any worse at this point. The way the line up is constructed now (after the Bay signing and assuming Reyes comes back full-strength with Beltran 100% healthy), I would say they are a “solid” third place team, which could give a legit run at some point to the Wild Card in 2010 (of course, with a floundering in September). Add a Jon Garland-type pitcher, I would say they are a legit Wild Card candidate. Add a Jon Garland-type along with an incentive laden Ben Sheets deal, and I think it’s Mets/Phillies duking it out for first place. But of course, if Omar is able to get any warm body in a Luis Castillo-deal, that is addition by subtraction right there.