The Mets Police

With the help of HitTrackerOnline’s Greg Rybarczyk and the ESPN Stats and Information Group, we looked at every home run hit at the new Yankee Stadium by seven key Yankees (through Sunday). Of the 242 homers, only 120 (49.6%) would have cleared the fence at Citi Field, assuming average weather conditions.

via New York’s Great Ballpark Injustice – WSJ.com.

A few folks wrote in including Harold:

Shannon,

Just a quick comment on your enjoyable over-analysis of the Istanbul Mets ad.

You were in fact able to order specific seats if you were a season ticket holder. I was, and my wife purchased me my two specific seats. While they have the numbers that my seats were, it is impossible to know for sure that they are actually my seats, although I have no reason to believe that they are not).

Thanks for distracting me while I study for the bar,
Harold

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Patrick from Germany suggests it’s a 1pm east game, and the long summer daylight allows the couple to watch live on ESPN America. Patrick says they are showing up to 8 games a week live.

I love how many of you got a kick out of the discussion.

Here at the half-way mark for 2011 I thought I’d take time out to thank YOU for reading MetsPolice.com.

I decided to share the site stats.  I don’t know if they are good or bad, but I like them, and when I think back to the 8,000 visitors in year 1 they seem nice to me.  Anyway, it’s not like the Donuts Chain is advertising with my secret numbers so here we go…

The site is up 30% over the first 6 months of 2010.  We’ve had over 100,000 absolute unique visitors, and a good 29% of you are checking back at the site more than once a day.  About half the readership are returners, with 47% this year as newbies (welcome!)

For June – it was right on par with May (and April) coming in at 40,000 visits and 110,000 page views with all the loyalty/recency stats about the same.

I know I cpuld use some of the other WordPress stat systems and give you crazy big numbers but these are from Google Analytics which the smart folks tell me is “real.”   (I like the guy on twitter who claims to have more readers than Cerrone does, and I think the poor fellow doesn’t know what he’s saying.  You don’t have 100,000 visits a day sir, sorry.)

Facebook is a tad embarrassing with only 628 friends but I was late to that party (follow the Mets Police page) but Twitter is rocking with 1938 followers, which is a pickup of 500 since the season began – I’ll be in the twitter hang during tonight’s game, join us.

My thanks to Mets Blog and Uni Watch for being the two biggest drivers of traffic outside my control (and wow that Facebook is important, huh?)

Also big time thanks to the Mets (especially you know who you are) for keeping me in the information loop and the occassional super-hookup.

Oh and I guess I should thank Media Goon since I have two major road trips in July and will need him to mind the store.

All in all, not bad for a site about nothing.  Imagine if we did game recaps or actual reporting.  Thanks for reading!

I’ve never heard of such a thing!

Who is complaining that the Mets will play a Sunday day game?!

Who is FOR an 8:05 start?

Bob Raissman that’s who.

I will guess Mr. Raissman doesn’t have a Sunday+ plan.

Please ESPN keep making such “bad” decisions.

What we have here is the faculty of Bristol Clown Community College depriving the unwashed masses, from sea to shining sea, of seeing Reyes – the most exciting player in the game today – in favor of a business story line: the tale of the chaotic state of the Los Angeles Dodgers, a glamour franchise, and a nasty legal battle between owner Frank McCourt and commissioner Bud Selig.

via Jose Reyes is baseball’s most exciting player and ESPN picks Dodgers-Angels over Mets-Yankees?.