The Amazin' Avenue Annual Is Not Quite Ready

by Eric Simon on Mar 1, 2010 12:52 AM EST

We crammed and crammed to get it done by 3/1, but we ultimately decided to take another couple of days to properly finish editing the Amazin' Avenue Annual. The book is done, content-wise, but the editing process is painstaking and tiresome, and even on the third and fourth passes through we're still finding things. Many of these—a missing serial comma, the inconsistent use of home run as one word versus two—would probably never strike most readers as issues. We figure if you're going to put as much time into this project as we have—hundreds of total hours—you should probably get it right. Even when we're finished there will doubtless still be a variety of copy errors, but you just do the best job you can.

So while the PDF won't be ready for public consumption just yet, its release is imminent. We've hedged our bets a bit by updating the banner at AmazinAvenueAnnual.com to indicate a March 2010 release, but rest assured that the book will be ready to roll sometime this week, barring a catastrophe. The printed version will follow shortly thereafter, likely next week, and will be available in regular and full-color versions. The former is far less expensive, the latter far more vibrant. The PDF will still be free, and since we won't be making money on any of the versions you can just go ahead and choose whichever flavor suits your needs.

Oh, and if anyone is taking photos in Port St. Lucie this week, drop me a line at amazinavenue@gmail.com because we still need pictures of a few lesser-known players (and Gary Matthews Jr.), so if you're at Mets camp and you've got a camera you just might get a photo credit in our book.

And because I think you deserve something for waiting so patiently for the AAA, we're going to give you the first page of Tim Marchman's foreword (which he absolutely killed, by the way) just so you'll have a taste of what's to come. Click here to download (PDF).

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Boo to delay

Yay to foreword.

by The 'Ropolitans on Mar 1, 2010 1:02 AM EST reply actions

Insert some generic, DL-related Mets joke here

That’s a nice intro preview there, though. And, I’m happy I’m not alone in my dislike of the lack of curveballs I’ve seen Mets pitchers throw in the past, say, five years.

"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"
Gil Hodges IS a Hall of Famer.

by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Mar 1, 2010 1:19 AM EST reply actions

No worries

I’m sure this will be worth the wait

by ams258 on Mar 1, 2010 1:20 AM EST reply actions

It cuts off mid-sentence?

You couldn’t give me the end of the sentence?

Seriously though, I really can’t wait for this. I’ll probably be getting the colored printed version, depending on price of course, and almost feel bad that you aren’t getting any of the money. (I say “almost” because I am pretty much broke). Everything on this site is top notch and there is no better place to get Mets’ analysis. I’m sure that this will be a must own for any Mets fan and I thank all of you involved in putting this together. And you’re right, Marchman killed it on the first page.

by Evan_S on Mar 1, 2010 1:32 AM EST reply actions

Here here

by Pack Bringley on Mar 1, 2010 9:32 AM EST via mobile up reply actions

Hmm, about the foreword

Your man at the end of the bar will with the least provocation list the relative strengths and weaknesses of the defense of two generations’ worth of fourth outfielders, the mild lawyer at the end of your row at Citi Field will discourse on the team’s unwillingness to teach a curveball and name an astonishing number of minor leaguers undone by the organization’s disdain for the pitch, and your 12-year-

Your man at the end of the bar = Cannonglasser ?
the mild lawyer at the end of your row at Citi Field = Eric ?
12-year- = old whisky?

I can’t wait.

In lobby campaign for Chris Carter.

by Michkin on Mar 1, 2010 9:24 AM EST reply actions