What Mets fans talk about when not talking about the actual games.
I know y’all probably saw this on Mets Blog, but my Bloggers Handbook says not everyone reads every site.
Long time readers know that the Saturday morning leadoff article always involves donuts, so how could I resist. Skip to the end for the donuts part.
Left in the comments by @formerdirtdart:
Is it just me, or does Adam Rubin seem just a tad snarky here? http://bit.ly/dSiQ3x
Does the “media” have a problem with the Mets’ pattern of direct communication with their fans? (Thats @formerdirtdart commenting not Adam, the link is Adam.)
I don’t know Adam Rubin and text (especially when limited to 108 characters or whatever twitter is) lacks nuance and can easily seem harsh.
Breaking down the sentence…”Sandy Alderson hasn’t made himself very available to members of the media” does suggest some personal feeling. It would have been just as easy to type “Sandy Alderson missive e-mailed to fans..” with the link.
I don’t think the beat guys need to worry, if they are all even worried. They’ll still get great information by being in the clubhouse and by being around the players. Sandy isn’t going to be emailing every day “Reyes says he has a cold but will play” and he definitely won’t be emailing things like a hypothetical “this series is make or break for the season” article…so no need to worry if Sandy emails us civilians and says hi.
Media Goon rocked this out…
It seems that the sports writers have an opinion on one particular player whose name has appeared in the articles I have linked to this week, but nobody wants to come out and accuse him of anything.
Then, in 2013, the real fun begins.
Roger Clemens. Barry Bonds. Mike Piazza. Sammy Sosa. Curt Schilling. Craig Biggio.
If voters struggled to put the so-called Steroid Era into perspective this year, good luck with this bunch.
An interesting confluence of sentences.
Bonds will be on the 2013 ballot alongside other players with a steroid paper trail: Roger Clemens and Sammy Sosa. Another name to consider: Mike Piazza.
Based purely on their numbers, it would be silly to have a Hall of Fame without Bonds and Clemens, the game’s best hitter and pitcher in decades. Their link to performance-enhancing drugs changes everything, however, and their Hall of Fame candidacies might have taken a further hit with today’s results.
via What does HOF vote mean for Barry Bonds? : SFGate: San Francisco Giants : The Splash.
