Every weekday morning, I awake roughly around 6 a.m. and begin to prepare myself for another day of train rides, subway platforms and a constant stream of news.
Instead of coffee, I start my morning with a dose of Google Reader. Reader, for those that don't know, is an RSS reader. I'm sure you've always seen those little orange logos with the bars (this). It works like e-mail. Every time a website posts something, it gets routed to you RSS reader, so you're never behind.
Anyway, I usually wake up every morning and check my latest RSS items. Currently. I'm subscribed to 181 different blogs and websites, most of them Mets related. If there is a Mets blog out there, I'm probably subscribed to it.
Over the last 30 days, I've read 14,481 different articles in all. When I wake up in the morning, I usually have 80+ items, over 75% of them dealing with the Mets. This morning, I woke up to only 50-ish, only 30 of them had to do with the New York Mets. I was pleasantly surprised, to say the least.
By the time I get to work, usually around 10 (but 9 today) I have well over 120, without fail. This morning, getting to work just an hour early, I only had 33.
The moral of the story: When the Mets win, bloggers write less.
I guess this makes a lot of sense. Most things I read and rants and raves picking apart a managerial decision, blasting a player for not doing something correctly, or things to that effect. A win seems to calm things down, though it doesn't make it go away. I read only a handful of articles about Willie Randolph pulling Mike Pelfrey in the 9th inning, and rightly so.
Pelfrey was working on a stellar game, but you don't want it to get away from you. At the time, I said I would have given him one more batter. Of course, hindsight is 20/20 and unfortunately, the game got away from the Mets anyway, with Billy Wagner giving up a game-tying home run in the top of the inning to Mark Reynolds.
I can't fault Randolph here. You bring in your closer, one of the best ever, to finish out the game and earn you a win. Sometimes a pitcher just doesn't have it, and Wagner has been going through a bit of a rough patch (see: Tony Clark's home run) right now.
The game ended up swinging in favor of the Mets with a swing of Carlos Beltran's bat. Thankfully, for the sake of the Mets and my morning ritual.
At first it was really disappointing, but as long as we get the win, that's all that matters," Pelfrey said. "This was a big start for me. I have to perform."
ReplyDeleteAt least he has a good attitude about it. Id still be a bit pissed though.
Good for him. Showing maturity. Good stuff.
ReplyDeleteWagner better by buying him a new watch or something. For Pelfrey, I'm guessing a shiny new chess set.
Yeah with a 3-run lead there I think you have to pull him when Willie did. Obv 5+ run lead he stays in, but it's not like we have some scrub closer, so I can't fault Willie here, but one more batter could have been allowed.
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