SLACKISH REACTION: Ha. I did a long flowing post and went to publish it and the website crashed. Usually there is at least a draft of these things but nope nothing. I’m kida grrr but let’s try this again.
It was a fun decade, especially the front half when my son was young and Citi Field had that new stadium smell, Shannon Forde was there to look out for the bloggers, Murph was on the Mets, and I actually went to games!
There were some great seasons – 2012, an all-timer which I have written about, and 2015 come to mind.
On the blog side, I just ran the numbers and there were almost 7 million page views this decade. Now I know the guys at the AAIMBR one claimed…this is a real thing they once claimed….5 MILLION PER DAY…..before Yoda had to explain to them that they were quite quite quite wrong……but hey that’s the content farm for you….but back to this place, 7 million anything is a lot so cool!
This year the site was double what it did in 2018….I worked a little harder (except December lol) and you guys rewarded me. So thank you all for coming by and liking some things, telling me I am wrong about others, and always coming around in the end. Ike Davis and Matt Harvey say hi guys….and beware the Pete Alonso 27 Home Run Season, things are gonna get ugly fast…but that’s a story for 2020.
As for my December output – there’s just been nothing going on in Queens. In past winters I would put my head down and do a million post about caps or write poetically about Joel Youngblood or something, but this December I just haven’t found my muse. I am not getting bored with the site or stepping back – I’m just charging my batteries so that when Baseball Activities Resume I can go back to posting 5-7 times a day. But for now, it would just be empty content so I’ll take the break, and I will keep doing the site until the Mets win the World Series while nicely dressed. I don’t anticipate shutting down in October 2020 but we can always hope I do.
Much thanks to the usual suspects who helped the site along the way.
Assuming I post tomorrow I will be able to claim to be a Three Decade Blogger (started in 2008). Along the way I made some friends, annoyed some people, saw a few games, had a few laughs. The idea that this thing was clicked on 6.9M times since 1/1/10 makes me both smile and laugh. Thanks for coming by.
There is no Mets news today. Happy New Year.
