When I started this blog, years ago, it was because I  saw a gulf between those that worked within baseball and those of us who happily sat in the stands.  Players didn’t understand “us”, the media didn’t care about “us” and well, I though being half in and half out, I could very nicely write [...]

Sandy Alderson called a blogger only conference call yesterday.  According to Matt Cerone of MetsBlog who did a pretty comprehensive recap of the call, Sandy recognizes that the blogs reach the fans directly, and that the bloggers might be more important to getting the word out than the more traditional forms of media.  That is [...]

This might have been covered ad nauseum somewhere else, but one more idignity for the Mets- The New York Times doesn’t seem to be sending a writer to cover the team on this road trip.  They are simply buying the game story from the Associated Press.  Now, that really isn’t surprising, since the Times isn’t [...]

Not sure how much of this story my readers have followed, but its a pretty big deal, and one I don’t mind carrying the mantle for a bit.
Jerrod Morris, a blogger for MidwestSportsFans.com wrote a piece at the end of last week trying to explain Raul Ibanez’s torrid start to the season to a buddy.  [...]