eMailbag: When Does the Hot Stove Start
…i need a break from the keyboard…i have written over 550,000 words in the last two months, or basically the equivilant of War and Peace, seriously, and so my writing is starting to not make a whole lot of sense, which tends to happen from time to time…over the next few weeks, while teams are unable to make trades, sign free agents or make any major announcements, i will step back, stop writing and let my brain get it’s act together, while also cleaning up my office and working on some new bells, whistles and ideas for MetsBlog.com…in the process, i intend to have conversations with every single baseball person, reporter and fan i know, in an effort to formulate a better sense of what went wrong with this team, and what needs to occur to get it back on track…
…in the meantime, my associate bloggers will carry the torch lightly in my absence, although i will certainly make the occasional post from time to time, particularly in the morning…however, i do not expect us to be making 15 to 20 posts a day like we had been doing over the last few months, mostly because news will be sparse…but, we will be writing every day, letting you know our individual thoughts while linking to other information around the web so to keep the conversation warm until November, when the Hot Stove Season will officially begin…at which point we will turn the heat up under talking trades, rumors and free agents on a full-time, non-stop basis…and i suspect it will get pretty crazy around here, as it has every off-season for the past four years, chock full of buzz, arguments, ideas, news and solutions…and i can’t wait…it’s always a ton of fun…
…so, keep checking in with MetsBlog.com, but patient with our slower pace while we recouperate from a very long roller-coaster of a regular season, and get ready for what i suspect will be an equally long roller-coaster of an off-season…
