Hey, Mets fan!
The Amazin' Avenue Annual is out and it's free. I'm saying this not to be nice but because it's true: This is work of professional quality and will be an indispensible companion in the seven months to come if you for whatever reason want to follow along with the exploits of Alex Cora and co. Download the .pdf file, print it out, put a big bulldog clip on on it and you're gold, with everything from slick visualizations of player skill sets to a Gary, Ron and Keith drinking game.
I'm not a better blogger because I'm lazy for a few reasons, but a big one is that I'm just skeptical of the form because so much of it comes down to writing about writing about writing. That these guys, rather than falling into that trap, have put a book this fun and useful together and put it out there for everyone to enjoy for free makes me much less so. Here's to a bit more of this and many fewer pictures of drunk ballplayers in future.
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apparently other teams are interested in met catchers... what idiots!
Tim,
I note in the acknowledgements of the Annual, you are described as "a Mets fan from 1986 to 2009". So you have officially renounced your Met fandom? How exactly does this work? I am interested in the process. Do you throw out your old ballcap? Do you adopt another team? Do tell!
Loved the foreword. I read it to my girlfriend, she just rolled her eyes.