Hi it’s Friday and this is a new opening to what was a draft-post below. Today’s fan discussions are around what Mets fans want from “the beat”, Sherman-gate, Ken Davidoff’s thread with fans on twitter…all seem to be in the air today so I am going to go ahead and publish this.
I notice that Tim Britton, the Mets beat reporter for the Athletic, has barely tweeted this week. I am mentioning that not at all as a shot, but just to mention that I’m aware that it’s possible maybe there’s a piece of this puzzle I am missing (and hopefully not something like a family issue or whatever else I could randomly speculate about.) As you’ll see below, I come in peace, and sat on this for a day as I’m just having a conversation and am not here to say anyone is bad or anything. It’s just a conversation. My blog is focused on what fans talk about off-the-field, and this topic has been coming up.
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I imagine my headline has invited some eyeballs from Athletic staffers. I come in peace guys. I truly hope your project is a success and I am rooting for you.
I wrote this on the afternoon of March 8th. I finished it and decided to save it to draft and went back and inserted this paragraph here because I wanted to let this settle in and not just cause waves. But if you’re seeing it now, whenever now is, I am still feeling this way X days or hours later.
At my site, I write about lots of things including my feelings. And for the last week I have been feeling confused.
Just now I logged into The Athletic and searched for Mets.
I see there’s a new article about Rosario’s base-stealing abilities. OK, that’s nice. Honestly, though, it’s the kind of story I would ignore in the Times or Mets Blog or wherever.
The next most-recent story appears to be from March 2. My apologies if I missed one, or 40, since…but March 2nd? 6 days between stories about the Mets? Am I using the site correctly?
Again, I come in peace. Maybe I misunderstood. Maybe the Mets staff is dealing with a personal issue and had to miss a day or two. All good. But I’m already not checking in every day and already thinking about not coming back in 11 months.
I’m not here to take shots. I truly come in peace. But I’m feeling confused. maybe it’s just early day growing pains. Maybe it’s me.