It’s always a pleasure to me to acknowledge that another year has gone by and the blog is still going. My ongoing thanks to you who read the site, follow on Twitter and Facebook, and have supported things like the Queens Baseball Convention.
The site started on April 15, 2008 with a rant about Jackie Robinson Day uniforms. I think uniforms look better with no names on the back, and on April 15th the Mets don’t wear names on the back. However, everyone is wearing 42 so you can’t tell who is who. The one day we need names they don’t do it, and the 364 days we don’t need them they do it. Stupid.
And thus a blog was born. The name comes from my love of a baseball team and a band that Sting used to sing for. Over time the “Police” part took on a connotation that wasn’t originally intended, but that I adopted.
Recently Dan Twohig, who has been part of the site from the start, made a wise comment that when things are good nobody needs The Mets Police. It’s sort of like when Gotham turns on Batman. So with the Mets winning pennants, nobody cares about the Wilpons or parking prices, and I get told my blog is old and stupid and cranky. Hopefully the Mets will win the World Series while nicely dressed and I can end this big once and for all.
But this is the Mets, and it’s just as likely that before winning the World Series while nicely dressed that they will do something that infuriates the fanbase and the Bat Signal will go up. Until then, I just do what I always do which is riff jokes on twitter, root for Daniel Murphy (although I have to cut that down to just 142 games a year), and post things that aren’t being covered by 50,000 other Mets blogs.
Anyway, we begin Year 9, hopefully the final year (again, the Mets need to do their part and win the World Series while nicely dressed), and as always my thanks to you for reading and following. Happy Ron Hodges Day.
