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During the B.S. Report podcast with ESPN.com’s Bill Simmons, Baseball Tonight’s producer Gus Ramsey said the following…
“I was on MetsBlog.com, which is a great resource for all Mets fans, and all winter long the guy posts the Mets Fan Confidence Rating based on polling and stuff. And it had been hovering around six the entire off-season. Today it’s up to about 8.3. So that’s where we are at.”
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…jeez, people love that Confidence Rating…which fascinates me…
…in fact, i just learned that people fairly high up with the Mets actually keep an eye on it…which is awesome, but scary, in that it’s far from a scientific poll…frankly, i had been considering switching it to the Excitement Rating, or something to that effect, and just letting fans vote on whether they’re excited to be a Mets fan or not, since that’s a far more simple and emotional idea…
…but, at this point, there is no turning back…
…also, because i keep getting this question on e-mail, the Rating is based on a poll…it is not my personal opinion…i’m not sure how people miss it, but, every Tuesday or Wednesday i run the poll…the thing is, i post so damn much on this site, i suspect people blink and the poll is gone, even though a good 5,000 votes are typically submitted…in the future, i’ll try to post it in the morning and again in the afternoon…
I always rated management 8, but I can’t blame fans when after a historic collapse the biggest move the mets made for 1 month was signing Wise
Matt…if people are missing the poll, can you move it into the side-bar for the voting period…I believe you used to do it that way…this way it doesn’t get lost in posts…b/c we don’t want the posts to slow down of course.
Great job by the way!!
The fact that people high up on the Mets actually care what their fans think is such a novel concept…as opposed to the people who run the Knicks….
Sad but true, Cyclone!
Sorry…..Meant to add….”When it comes to the Knicks”.
isn’t it funny how the smallest and nonsensicle things in life get followed the most? I love the poll and I realize that it s something that should not be taken seriously, just like the presidential candidate polls. And yet people take it to heart.
Maybe, Matt, it has something to do with you. Perhaps since the site has taken off so well and so many people look to as an informational source that some in the front office feel that you’re more in touch with common folk then they are.
It speaks volumes of what you have achieved with this “blog”.
This is not a “blog,” it is my bible…
all hail and bow!!!
I’ve e-mailed this to you before Matt, but (if possible), it would be nice for the poll results to keep a live average instead of just listing all the votes received, such as the 8.2 which is now on the sidebar.
Is there a way to list that in the post instead of waiting for you to add it to the sidebar?
Simmons was better when I hadn’t read his one joke 10,000 times. He’s still entertaining though.
He forgot Ollie was our #4 starter after a 15 win season. Actually, I’m not sure he even knew he was a Met period. Unacceptible for an ESPN reporter doing a podcast about the team. If I want to hear people that know nothing about the Mets I’ll listen to M & the MD.
I usally love his podcats.. but the segment with Gus was brutal.. from bumbling through the met’s rotation.. to not knowing who the Twins got for AJ Pierzynskii… to not knowing who the cubs signed… I was grinding my teeth listening to this one on the way to work…
I still like reading Simmons, but you just have to accept that he’s a Red Sox fan, not a baseball fan. The only sport he really follows thoroughly is the NBA. Other than that he just follows the Boston teams. But I always got the feeling that he’s at least sympathetic towards the Mets (the way a lot of Mets fans used to be toward the Red Sox until they won the Series and turned into the Yankees 2.0). He even wrote an article about 2 years ago in which he admitted to jumping on the Mets bandwagon in 1985 because of Gooden, and how it was such an event when he would pitch that year.
and what “one joke” would that be??
simmons for president
Matt,
Can’t you just make the poll a “sticky” that remains the first thread on the list for the whole day that you’re running the poll? Then you take it down when you lock in the results and move the number to the sidebar.
Jon
My confidence in the confidence rating is an 8.
You said it, “it’s far from a scientific poll”…
In fact, I know people who vote 3 different times from home, work, their laptp….very unscientific.
I don’t know, I don’t even pay attention to it. Win, lose, make a trade, can’t make a trade, you have to be pretty thick to not know how people are feeling about the team.
I.e…after collapse, pretty low. After acquiring a #1 starter, pretty high. After a loss, pretty low. After a win, pretty high.
Come on…we need a poll for this?
No.
But its fun and entertaining. And that’s what this site and baseball is meant to be….fun and entertaining.
when matt says things like we had 20,000 hits yesterday… does that mean 20,000 different ip addresses? or does the 50 or so times I look at this page everyday (prob about 100 on santanaday) count as 50 hits?
gooood question, i’m wondering the same thing and hope this can be answered
sometimes the option to vote in the ranking is already closed, like the post Santana news poll. I couldnt vote in that one because I had voted in the other one and it must have saved my IP as having voted. Seems like it doesnt let me vote about half the time.
Simmons knows squat about the mets (or the national league in general). And calling him a reporter is like calling the Daily Show a news broadcast. He’s entertainment and opinion, not Peter Jennings.
Excellent point.
Though, i doubt anybody wants to trade places with Peter Jennings these days.
I love the Confidence poll. Scientific or not, it’s fun.
BUT, I always seem to miss the darned thing. As mentioned before in this thread, if you could leave it as the top post during polling hours, or put the poll right under the rating graph on the sidebar during polling hours, along with perhaps a longer window for submitting your vote, would help a lot!
anybody here read firejoemorgan?
I agree with what someone else said. Put it at the top of the webpage or top left or top right or at least somewhere where it is easy to see once we log in. That way, more people will vote and we will have a larger sample size. Either way, I personally read everything (except all comments) so that isn’t a problem for me.