The Future Of The Amazin' Avenue Annual

Happy baby welcoming

it’s very understandable given the reasoning. And with the wealth of analysis and information here, we will get by just fine I’m sure. Keep up the good work, it’s much appreciated. And good luck with El Simonito.

Having a baby around Opening Day is pretty poor timing though. How’s the kid gonna feel when you ditch his/her birthday for the Mets every couple of years? ;-)

As for the AAA, you’ll just have to throw in a couple more dickeyface posts here to make up for it.

You should have put Beltran on the cover of last year’s book. He would have ordered 10,000 for his personal library.

I hear he has some money to spend

Will also be gaining a west coast baby boy, as my wife and I are expecting about a week later. There’s a growth strategy for you.

I’ll miss the AAA’s as they were pretty fantastic, but I imagine they were an insane amount of work. Luckily RA Dickeys book comes out soon, so I"ll have something awesome to read anyway.

With any luck, he’ll hold out an extra day, and get to share a birthday with me (and Pete Incaviglia).

Within the “online community”, AA is relatively well known. Several stories are regularly linked in other sites and it has appeared in some Top/Most Influential baseball blog rankings. Breaking up a story also can only help. Though when you set the goal 2., what did you have in mind? Like to increase AA members by 1k? To increase traffic by 50%? To be recognized by NYT? To send James on a cover OP behind the SNY cameras with the “TRAID” sign linking to the website address? Is having 10k more members overnight necessarily a good thing? (I wonder what would happen if AA suddenly got 10k new members unaware of AA “rules of conduct” posting ludicrous TRAID fanposts suggestions every minute.)

Depending on the goal, there would be different ways to get there. I imagine AA wants to be known by its quality writing and community/fan participation.So, the way to go is to keep (increase) the quality (and the quantity) of the writing, if not in the written form of the AAA, in the website. /end rambling before discussing the merits and the gap between the number of Mets fans and the number of AA visitors/future MS Paint idea.

3.To make a few bucks: I have inadvertently clicked so many times on site advertising that it should cover the sale of a few AAA.

Congrats on the baby! Did the exams show if he can he throw lefty or how well his curveball grades?

I’ll certainly cherish it/sell it to the highest bidder.

Subpar Street Sequential

Having raised 2 boys (now men) of my own, I can tell you that as a guy, raising boys is quite the experience, especially if dad passes on the “sports” gene. I hope your son grows up healthy and plays every sport HE likes. Just get him away from the computer and out of the basement.

I will attempt to fill the void created by the AAA with a book of my own composed entirely of rants.

Congrats on the impending newbie.. same to you, Eno.

As someone who downloaded the first year PDF and second year Kindle edition, I’ll certainly miss these. I can understand the decision. I had a feeling..based on a comment here and there when the update posts would come out. Remember thinking to myself – ’damn I remember what it was like to be young and so ambitious.

Now I’m counting the days to retirement..and another Mets WS Championship. Little did I know back in 1986 the former would likely occur before the latter.

now you’ll soon have someone to put to work finishing the top 50 mets of all time!

GET TO WORK – BABY

In any event, congrats guys!

And this is still the best blog on SB Nation, and I’m sure it will only get better with maybe some of that content that would have been in the Annual on the site instead.

..funny that you think you will have MORE time once the baby is born. Having a child is like living your life with a batting donut (doughnut).

he’s the Saul Katz of Amazin Avenue.