What Mets fans talk about when not talking about the actual games.
The death of Bob Mandt unfortunately got lost in the news cycle. Do yourself a favor and read Marty Noble’s column.
He had an original poster from The Beatles at Shea and bobble-head dolls from everything, even the Titans. Pins, trinkets and caps, and stories about most of them. And he had a picture of himself with Mick Jagger. His office was the unofficial Mets Hall of Fame.
Matt Cerrone (he’s the guy who runs MetsBlog) has a non-Mets site MattCerrone.com which I also check out regularly.
Today Matt shared his traffic statistics for MetsBlog. Wowza. Let’s just say Mets Police has slightly fewer readers. MetsBlog’s over 100,000 pageviews a day..let me round down to 100k…365 days a year…wow that’s a crazy crazy number.
Me in case you’re wondering….I’m not actually sure. I look at various sites that tell me different things…on the low end I’m just over half a million views for the year, but another site tells me 1.6 million….
…but you read it, the Mets read it, and I like doing it. That’s the end all. I’m fortunate to have the infamous “real job” and while I like money this is more or less a hobby or a timekiller. I made $30 last month! I just like doing this.
The reason Matt shared his traffic numbers was to illustrate the pop in traffic because of the Omar and Jerry firings. (look)
I mentioned a few days ago that my personal traffic was down comparing September 2010 to 2009…a sign of me either being boring or Mets fan apathy. So I looked up my own numbers and while nothing crazy, yep yesterday was up. Today’s kind of meh but I didn’t post that much after 9am…high page views, normal visitors. Who knows.
Unfortunately for all of us, Mets News will likely get quiet as we enjoy some Yankees talk for the next week or two.
Sometimes people ask me about Matt. Smart guy. We’ve had lunch I think three times now, might be four. He “gets it” and sees the angles. I really dig mattcerrone.com and hope he writes more over there.
Not sure what this post was about but that’s what was on my mind. I spent two hours tweaking the blog design and not finding anything I liked so I put almost everything back the way it was.
Good morning Mets fans,
I think that (the quote in the title) was my favorite Fred Wilpon quote from yesterday. Sure it’s out of context and he said it to emphasize the autonomy of the GM.
However, maybe it’s the most important quote of all. Whatever happened in the past, it shows that heading forward that for good or bad this will be the new GM’s team.
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If you didn’t see the press conference live you missed a typical Mets moment. Dave Howard (Dave, come on we gotta do a game next April) went out of his way to say that John Ricco would be running the show in the interim. He then emphatically said it is Rick-o not Reek-o.
Later in the press conference both Wilpons called him Reeko.
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Found it interesting that Fred doesn’t have an office at Citi. Does he just walk around? Does he hang in an owners box? I’d have an office. I’d be “involved” too. However, wisdom is being smart enough to know what you don’t know so I would have a baseball guy.
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Did Omar really not suggest exiling Ollie? I think thats an organizational failure. I have a great relationship with Day Job Boss. I’m not afraid to admit when I made a bad call, and feel empowered to fix it. At a bad company you fear getting yelled at so you leave the mistakes alone and hope nobody notices.
I play aggressive ball. I hit some home runs with clients and sometimes I miss. I respect but don’t fear the owner. Let’s hope the new GM has the same relationship.
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Jeff will be on WFAN at 8. Cerrone says an announcement about tickets may be made. I was going to write about tickets next anyway. Stand by!
