Monday, January 01, 2007

happy new year!

It seems like a very long time ago that I logged into Blogger to start what was essentially meant as an online diary where I could write about my first year as a baseball fan.  When I set the blog up, I added links to my favorite Mets blogs in the sidebar for no other reason than to keep them out of my already-bursting RSS reader. Little did I know that clicking through them would bring my little corner of cyberspace to the attention of the blogosphere and beyond.

I particularly would like to say thanks to Mike of Mike’s Mets for being the first to write about my blog - and continuing to write about it as the season progressed.  Via Mike, the blog came to the attention of many other distinguished bloggers, who seemed to like what I was doing and started paying attention, calling out noteworthy posts, and generally allowing this newcomer into their world. To all of you, I say “thanks”.

In a million years, never in my life would I have imagined this would have happened. I was doing this for fun and discipline and so I didn’t lose the memories. Little did I know, of course, when the year began, that I would be holding tickets for playoff games and experiencing the thrill of October baseball.

In 2007, I plan to continue the blog. I still have a lot to learn and do and see and look forward to taking you along with me. I also plan to take this off of Blogger (I registered metsgrrl.com, and that address will already bring you here) and redesign the site completely.  I actually already own server space for my other writing projects - it never even occurred to me to set this blog up on that space, with proper design and layout, because I thought it would be a tiny little project and didn’t think it justified the work involved. The best laid plans, and all that.

And finally, to you, the people who come here and read this: more than my disbelief in the attention I got from the blogosphere was the fact that I have actual READERS! Repeat offenders! People who come here and spend time here and bother to read what I have to write. Thank you for your continued patronage, and I hope to keep you entertained and interested into 2007.

Let’s Go Mets!

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