Friday, March 31, 2006
readme
MetsGrrl.com is the home for the baseball musings and photography of your charming hostess, Caryn Rose. My favorite bio describes me as follows: “I’m a punk rock veteran, a survivor of corporate America, and was born in New Jersey.”
By day, I’m a technology geek who’s been making a living off of the internet since 1994. The rest of the time, I’m a writer who lives in the Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn with TBF (who will continue to remain anonymous by request) and the Rally Cat. I just finished my second novel and my agent and I are getting it in shape to shop to publishers. In the past, I wrote about rock and roll a lot; the details are here. I write about Bruce Springsteen for a publication called Backstreets. In my copious free time, I like to travel, read, take road trips, and take photographs of baseball and other things.
The “grrl” part of MetsGrrl comes from the Riot Grrl movement. Yes, the era of Riot Grrl is over - heck, even Sleater-Kinney broke up - but the ethos and what it represented is still important to me. It was a three-second decision when I started the blog, and now, well, here we are. (I only found this out later, but I kind of like that there were female ushers in the early days of the Mets who were called “Mets Girls,” too.)
I don’t pretend to be an expert on baseball; this blog isn’t about stats, projections or news, and if you came here looking for that, I am not sure what prompted that decision. When I finally revealed to TBF that I had this little blog (and it existed for about three months before I spilled the beans), he said he was surprised, but also that he wasn’t: “You’re a writer. That’s what you do, you write about stuff.” This blog is me writing about stuff, but in this case, the stuff is baseball. If you dig it, that’s great; if not, there are so many Mets blogs out there that you have no right to complain. Or better yet, start your own.
If you need more, I’d point you to:
the introduction, or HOW IT STARTED
the disclaimer (although much of it was already covered here)
Email me at MG at metsgrrl dot com. [Remove words, add symbols.]
Thanks for reading.
xo,
MG
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