I’m not sure, but I think NYFS is the original Mets site about minor league players. I started writing for them back on the day David Wright graduated to the majors (I think he batted 7th that game…).
I left with some baggage, though I still go back to read some of the original guys over there. I especially enjoy the posts of “Chinabox”, “jdawginsc”, and “metro2007”.
Ed, who owns and operates the site, has done a great job letting the patients control the asylum, while, at the same time, putting out educational and intelligent reporting.
That being said, the site has suffered lately with the decreasing amount of posts on the minor leaguers. There actually have been a couple of days this month that no minor league thread was even started.
Some of the newer posters there… and younger ones… have spent a fair amount of energy slamming me over the past few years. This comes from my exit there and the fact that I reported the 3-VP setup of management I call Sandy & Company with one of the names wrong. Had the scoop correct, just screwed up a name.
Overnight, I became a troll, joining one of the top sportswriters in the country, Keith Law, as the two jerk offs that can’t write their name correctly. I’m not sure why they took up against Law, which started long before his evaluation of the Cory Vaughn draft pick.
But lately, they’ve turned their direction to Matt Cerrone. There actually is a post up today slamming him pretty good by some of the guys over there, a couple of which have their own Mets blog site.
Yes… people who have a Mets blog site slammed a guy who, with one shout out on http://www.metsblog.com/ , can direct thousands of hits your way to increase the value of your site in the eyes of potential advertisers.
I like Matt Cerrone, but, even if I didn’t I wouldn’t take off against him. He and I have some pretty electric emails back and forth discussing a myriad amount of Mets issues, but that has nothing to do with his professionalism or integrity. MetsBlog is easily the most popular Mets site on the Internet and is part of the SNY family, which is owns by the Mets. This is the real stuff folks.
Any of us that write about the Mets on blogs owes a thanks to NYFS. We all started there. And, the last thing any of us should be allowed to do is to slam each other. None of us are making decent money and all of us work just as hard as the beat guys.
Come on guys.
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I've had enough of all this slamming Mack. It was rampant on my site too and yesterday I had enough and banned the dirty dozen. We are all Mets fans with a passion for the team and for blogging and all these trolls who hide behind their screen names have become too much. The snark, the negativity, the insults, it's just all too much. Time for us blog owners to start banning IPs more frequently and restore sanity and fun back to what we do.
A good first move will be to not allow anyone that doesn't register... for free,btw, with some kind of name.
I'm going to change my site and not allow "anonymous" writers" to post comments.
The comment section on my site consists of about 10 adults that like to shoot the Mets shit with each other.
I wish all of top independent Mets site would be incorporated into one mega-site where we all can share revenue.
Maybe someday, but far past how long I'll be around.
I was thinking of switching to Disqus comments which Cerrone uses. I think it allows for more legit commenter's because it's linked to either their facebook or twitter profiles.
As for your last point, that would be great, but I think for the most part bloggers would rather be independent than to be a part of something bigger.
I remember back in 2006 there were maybe 15 Mets blogs tops, and those 15 would get 50-100 comments per post. But after the NLCS and before the start of the 2007 season, about 100 new Mets blogs surfaced. These were the same people that used to comment on our sites, but went on their own instead. By the end of the collapse, half of them were already gone and maybe 40-50 of them remained.
Every spring training since, you see the same thing with an influx of 50-75 more new blogs, and about half of them sticking it out for the entire season.
I was having this email conversation with an old time Mets blogger just before the weekend as he was asking me why his comments were down so much every year. The above was pretty much my response to him.
Today when I notice a post 50-100 comments, I know it means one thing. There's a flame war going on. I'd rather just have 15 intelligent comments than all the snark you see these days. Some sites even encourage the snark which is unfortunate.
I was thinking of switching to Disqus comments which Cerrone uses. I think it allows for more legit commenter's because it's linked to either their facebook or twitter profiles.
As for your last point, that would be great, but I think for the most part bloggers would rather be independent than to be a part of something bigger.
I remember back in 2006 there were maybe 15 Mets blogs tops, and those 15 would get 50-100 comments per post. But after the NLCS and before the start of the 2007 season, about 100 new Mets blogs surfaced. These were the same people that used to comment on our sites, but went on their own instead. By the end of the collapse, half of them were already gone and maybe 40-50 of them remained.
Every spring training since, you see the same thing with an influx of 50-75 more new blogs, and about half of them sticking it out for the entire season.
I was having this email conversation with an old time Mets blogger just before the weekend as he was asking me why his comments were down so much every year. The above was pretty much my response to him.
Today when I notice a post 50-100 comments, I know it means one thing. There's a flame war going on. I'd rather just have 15 intelligent comments than all the snark you see these days. Some sites even encourage the snark which is unfortunate.
hell of a name...
is that Irish?
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