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K McCarthy: Matt, I’m not one to complain on how a webpage is laid out, but you really had a good thing going with the old style. The feel of this 
new site is too corporate and not enough amature, or fan friendly. I miss the old look.
Matthew Cerrone: Actually, I think you are one to complain, seeing as you sent the e-mail. Right? And that’s good, you should complain. There is nothing wrong with that. I love good, honest, constructive feedback. The thing is, all I essentially did was flip the text column with the most left sidebar. That’s it. A simple flip of two columns and suddenly the site is too corporate? Interesting. Also, I will eventually add a Citi Field inspired header, but I have yet to be there for a game, with fans in the stands, so I went with the generic blue until then.
P Money: Why did you lose the new comments section. Two people complain and you give in. Sucker. Your such a jerk.
Matthew Cerrone: In case you missed it, yesterday I wrote, “I had to temporarily revert back to the old comment style for a variety of technical reasons. I will do my best tomorrow to bring back Intense Debate.”
Devin: Obama has taught me the importance of 
persistence. In his honor I will be sending this same email twice a day until I receive a response… I think we should take a note from the cards and bat Luis Castillo ninth. It gives him protection to bat in front of Jose Reyes. Essentially giving the Mets another lead off man the second time around. This is at least worth discussing.
Matthew Cerrone: For those unaware, Devin sent this to me nearly 10 times, and in some cases lectured me on how I do a poor job responding to people’s e-mails. Sorry, Devin, it’s been a hectic time of year, with the whole re-design, comments thing, and Opening Day. Sorry for the delayed response, and, truthfully, I admire your persistent way, and I apologize for not responding sooner… That said, I am not a fan of batting the pitcher any place other than ninth, because I see no advantage to exposing him to more at bats than needed, though I realize he is eventually pinch hit for at some point in the game anyway. The thing is, I actually like the idea of Castillo’s controlled bat hitting in front of the pitcher, who can bunt him over for the top of the order. For that hitter-batting-eighth scenario to pay off, the moon and stars need to align in a specific way. I’d rather construct the lineup for the most likely scenario and work it out that way.
No Hot: In a post last week, you wrote, “I freaked out a bit when I looked at the box score and saw that Pelfrey was pulled from the game following just one inning… thankfully, it was due to rain… but, I feared the worst.” Come on. Matt, you have to learn to report like a real serious reporter.
Matthew Cerrone: But, I’m not a ‘real serious reporter.’ I’m a Mets fan, who writes a blog. Here’s the thing, though, I did freak out. So, why should I not write that? I’m just being honest, which is all I have ever been on this blog, for better or worse. If you want to read an independent, objective reporter, read David Lennon, Adam Rubin, and the other beat writers who do an amazing job at being just that, independent and objective. I’m a Mets fan, and I’m proud to be a Mets fan, and I’m going to write as an honest, in-the-moment Mets fan, who sometimes is angry, sometimes is overly confident, and who sometimes is freaking out, because that’s who I am, and that’s what I have fun doing.
very honest matt.
Actually, quite a few more than two people complained about the new comments section and the only “intense debate” is why you ended up changing a perfectly good format to begin with…
the original format was good but i liked the intense debate
If Intense Debate functioned well, it would be great….but the comments posted ridiculously out of order, and often many of them they would not show up at all and you had to refresh or close out the window and re-open it again and again and again….I agree that the features were cool, but to me, the functionality comes first. Also, I think not having to log in is a large invitation to more trolls.
If Intense Debate actually displayed all messages, and on one page, and in order, I think it would be fine.
But the way it was was an Intense Pain.
agreed…it was a bit confusing and fustrating at times. It looked nice and i hope matt can work out the bugs in it.
I’m with you. All for improvement, but Intense debate with all it’s bugs made this comment section virtually unusable.
Well done, Matthew. I love the slightly snarky tone – justifiably snarky, in my view – a la Marty Noble’s mailbag.
haha I hate that man, and this is coming from someone who has never had their email shot down by him. I dunno, he is a very honest person and his responses are always backed up and are great points, but I dont like his edgy attitude in his replies (again this is speaking of Marty Noble). I would probably flip if he replied to my email and made it look stupid.
Maybe it is because I now live in uber-friendly Portland, OR…so I miss the NY sarcasm. Plus, some of the emails that Noble gets really are pretty silly.
Matt with a chip on his shoulder! I like it! Keep up the strong work Matt, the new design is sort of strange though but I disagree that it looks business-like or any such.. It just takes some time to get used to.
As always, LETS GO METS.
Gipper, you beat me to it. Matt is turning into Crankypants Marty Noble in his old age :)
Love Marty Noble but he is one nasty SOB. You better have a question worth answering or he’ll belittle you and make you $uck your thumb.
Consider going back to the one-page format for comments. Much easier to follow a discussion. A simple ‘find’ allows commenters to find their comments and replies. Like the rest of the changes.
Turned on Francesa for the for time in a long time and he’s cutting down Daniel Murphy :) Some things never change. Comparing him to all the other Mets failure from the farm system. He forgot Wright and Reyes.
Are you serious? Could he have at least waited for him to have a bad game?
Mike Fatsesca is so stupid.. He goes by that ridiculous standard that each OF’er has to hit 30+ HR. Someone posed a question to him about “Well what if Jeter was a LF’er? Would he still be considered great?” and Fatsesca shot it down with “well come on you cant compare them.. one if a SS, one is a LF’er..”
I’ll tell you one thing, Murphy’s range at short wouldn’t be much worse than Jeter’s
easy that is not true….lets not make murphy out to be the second coming of god here….he went 1 for 5 people….i cant stand the radio guy and didnt here what he said, but some of you here need to relax and let the guy develop
Sure he went 1-5, but he drove in both are runs, and had 2 productive outs.
What’s not true? That Jeter is an extremely mediocre shortstop?
for what its worth, that standard is totally wrong – i hate the phillies but look at their outfield last year.. Pat was the only true big bat, Werth and Victorino had solid power (helped out by that hitters park).. they got their power production from their infield, and they won the WS. Who says you need your entire outfield to combine to hit over 100 HR? If you are getting the power production elsewhere, it DOESN’T matter, at all.. So ridiculous..
First off I am a die hard mets fan and I at times can’t stand the fat slob but the guy is making his points. Murphy as much as i love him is only a good hitter who is gonna score alot of runs and bat in a few. He is not going to steal more than 15 runs in a year. He is not an above average outfielder in range or arm strength.They got people calling in saying he is going to be a hall of famer. I can hardly see him as an all-star. That does not mean he ain’t going to be a solid player. He works the count and his hard work ethics is going to make him a fan favorite. Let’s be real he is keith hernandez without the gold glove. Which to me is still good in my eyes.
If ppl cant clal him a great player, you cant say htose things about him either.
I Like Murphy everything he has done up to now has earned him my respect. I just wish people would get over this idea that Murphy is going to be great based on only 50 games.
i just got a new puppy over the weekend. he was bad yesterday and this morning, so at 1 oclock i went home for lunch, put him in his kennel, turned on the yes network, and went back to work
Im calling the ASPCA
please don’t. i send my pets to the michael vick doggie daycare center
LMAO, i dont know whats worse, makking them watch YES, or sending em over to Vicks place.
Is DMX still the Head Instructor there?
You know If you are honest all Francesa is saying is let Murphy do it 1st before people start saying he is going to be special.
You have Mets fans calling in some saying Murphy is going to be a Hall Of Famer. I mean cmon.
He has yet to say anything remotely negative bout Murphy other than let him show it on the field 1st.
This anti Francesa stuff is amazin at times at least rip him when he deserves it not for saying Murphy needs to show it on the field before people say he will win the Triple Crown.
That’s not accurate. He uses one fan that says something foolish and puts it on all Mets fans. That’s what these sports radio guys do. On purpose. Francesa has nothing to talk about so he goes after Murphy using one or two fans.
I agree with both zen and n.jersey. Murphy is what he is. A solid number #2 hitter. He won us the game yesterday and will win us many more. Thats all we can expect from him.
Mlb extra innings is showing free baseball games all week. I have been watching baseball all day yesterday and today.
You speak like just 1 person called in singing Murphy’s accolades.
You have people so eager to prove Mike wrong calling in arguing against Mike’s opinion to let Murphy show it 1st on the field that all they are doing is making a fool of themselves.
Mike has never said that Murph is a bust or anything approaching he is pointing out what all reasonable fans already know.
It’s not even a discussion yet. He does it to annoy Mets fans. He even does it with Reyes and Wright. We all know Murphy hasn’t proven anything. Why would that even be a discussion today? It’s irrelevant.
Do you ever hear him go on and on about something foolish a Yankee fan says about one of their players? Francesa went on and on about how Hughes was an ace. How’d that work out?
Turned WFAN off.
Again its Mets Fans callin him not the other way around making Murphy a discussion.
In regard to everything else you said I have no argument.
Agreed, but you know as well as I do, if Murphy was a Yankee he would be talking about what a Ha-yuuuge year/career/whatever he was going to have.
Plus, since I don’t listen to him anymore what does he have to say about CC and Tex?
He is saying it’s only 1 game. The thing is both texiera and cc are slow starters. with a-rod missing one month and alot of old players in the team you can’t afford to give up a game or two. We should now that better than anyone.
especially in that division.
No, I know. My problem with Francessa is his history. Everything Yankees is good and everything Mets is bad. Then there are a few back-handed compliments along the way.
If Santana got lit up like CC my guess is Francessa would not be treating it like one game.
That’s all I’m saying.
In regards to CC he is saying its 1 start which is exactly right. Tex he said its to be expected the treatment he got in Baltimore.
As far as If he was a Yankee I’ll ask you this what would Mets fans be saying If Murphy was a Yankee instead?
They would probably be saying he *&(!s Jeter.
My comment is more about Francessa. He goes out of his way to antagonize Mets fans. All the while acting like he’s the fairest guy on earth.
His words are right. It’s only game. But it’s his history and attitude that annoys people.
Well mike did say that santana was a great player and cc was good player but not in the same league as santana. as he said santana is the number 1 pitcher in baseball.
My issue is no one gives him credit where credit is due.
Is he pro Yankee? Duh of course
Does he say stupid and annoying stuff a lot? YES
Just be fair that’s all.
haha nice. this mailbag had some not-so-subtly sarcastic undertones. i like it
this format is much better than the intense debate. that other one was too “commercial”–not a very good word but i think everyone knows what i mean. this one is nice and cozy…
in terms of the comment section, im split on it.. i dont mind either.. if i was just a general viewer who didnt have a log-in ID for this blog then i would prefer the other comment poster, but since i do have a login ID and im always logged in, i dont mind this old style..
Prefer the new format.
Matt, I think you have to remember that some of your readers are 10 years old and take their e-mails with a grain of salt.
Matt, IMO the current (old) comment style is much much better than the one you had up a few days ago with intense debate. That one was way too busy with the avatars and other doo-dads, and the multi-page comments made it too hard to locate things. A big part of the charm of Metsblog has always been the ability to have back-and-forth conversation with other fans. The old format facilitates that much better than the one you had with intense debate. Which is ironic given that name, The only thing I really liked about intense debate was the ability to get e-mail notification. But that’s it.
So here’s one reader who hopes you don’t go back to it (intense debate) unless the physical format is configured differently.
I agree with VC….I thought the new comments style had cool features, but the actual functionality of being able to converse and debate was lost.
If Intense Debate could show up here like this, i.e., with ALL comments shown and not hidden, and all on one page, and reloads not necessary every ten seconds to see all the comments which constantly disappeared, then I think we would have the best of both worlds.
As Matt seems dedicated to changing, here’s hoping that we get the good features of the old comments section folded into Intense Debate…..
bingo. i agree with that and this is also better because i feel more at “home” i guess… plus there would be many more people going on to the intense debate, writing their name, making pointless comments, and leaving. this format is much more troll-proof
Agree 100%. It is so much easier to follow the flow of the posts on the old format. Please keep it this way if at all possible.
matt, you do a great job with this blog…i’m logged in from 830-5 at work every day!
Matt with all due respect the new comments section has issues with it.
1. Page loads are slow
2. Refreshes take you back to 1st page
3. requires multiple refreshes at times to see all comments.
These have been my brief experiences. Did you ever consider after a trial period to simply putting it to a vote amongst your followers?
On a personal note I miss that you rarely seem to post those silly anti Met links to articles from rival teams throughout the country that I would never had known about had it not been for you combing the net.
Are you referencing the old or new format?
With the new format, it had completely broken down by Monday AM. Could not even post.
Back to this old format, my refresh is not too bad, but you are right, the sort is off. Used to be refresh took you to the end, which was the LATEST response, so you could just pop your comment in the comment box below it. Now you have to scroll from the bottom to top to read, then back to the bottom to comment.
I love this site. I’m probably logged in 18 hours a day or better….
I was referring to intense debate having issues with it.
Gotcha. I had way more problems with Insense Debate than the ones you listed. I suppose there are some good things with that format but the bugs were horrible.
I think thats what he is trying to addres-s. Intense debate has some potential, but there were many kinks that needed to be fixed.
The lesson here is, of course, do not send Matt an email and expect something other than a sarcastic, snooty response.
Well let’s see:
- One letter said, “I’m not one to complain” and then did just that.
- Another one called Matt a s.u.c.k.e.r and a j.e.r.k and misspelled the contraction for you are.
- The third was mad at Matt for not discussing Castillo batting 9th. They were mad at MATT not the METS.
- The last one took Matt to task for putting his feelings in a blog post.
I think he took it pretty easy on them.
LOL. Actually, I give Matt credit for picking these emails to publish and answer here. I got a chuckle out of them.
wow, Matt made a sarcastic remark? OMG…the sky is falling.
How long have people been reading this site and are surprised by this?
And blains, right on with you’re post. I love how people speak down to Matt yet they speak like fools themselves.
well, if you don’t expect that response when making a post in the comments section, then you shouldn’t be making a post…why should an email to HIS site be any different?
so you advocate acting like a jer k?
I wasn’t referring to you not making a post, I was being general.
You just made it sound like you or others that want to comment/email, are surprised by Matt’s response.
If one makes a sarcastic or snooty comment/email and is wrong, then expecting a response, with the truth, in a sarcastic or snooty manner is understandable.
is that a fact.
if you had a girlfriend who you sent mushy emails to, how would you feel about her publishing them for a bunch of people to see with sarcastic responses to each of them?
i bet you’d feel differently in that case.
Hey Devin, get over yourself.
I have to agree with batting Castillo ninth. If you have read The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball you know that statistically you could gain a few extra runs per year from batting the pitcher 8th.
Great responses. Great blog. Bat Murphy Second.
That was hilarious!
Matt, you continue to do a fan-freakin-tastic job. Thank you.
I freaked out when I saw that Pelfrey was pulled last week as well.
And SNY didn’t help by teasing the highlight with something like, “Wait ’til you see why Pelfry only lasted one inning.”
I was freaking during the commercial break.
How much will it take for people to realize this is a blog and not the New York Times?
It’s not that I think the site is too corporate now, it’s that I find it very unbalanced. With the sidebars on the right and left, it balanced out the blog entries. Now, it seems so heavy on one side.
I’ll eventually get used to it but I definitely prefer the other layout better.
While the site looks unbalanced now, its a great short term solution to accessing metsblog from mobile devices. When i rpeviously logged on from my blackberry, i would have to wait twenty seconds for the page to load, then scroll down for twenty more seconds to get past the sidebar and to the first post. With the current format, I jump right to the first post without any waiting on scrolling.
Its nice and smooth. Just like Murphy’s swing. Bat Murphy Second.
Pretty funny stuff. Looks like Matt is trying to make an example.
The Castillo idea was interesting only because Castillo is the perfect guy to bat 8th… veteran, will walk, good bat control.
If the pitcher ever did bat 8th and his spot came up earlier than it would have and he was pinch hit for this guy would probably be the first to complain.
I guess we’re sorry to be an inconvenience to your (Matt’s) perfect existence.
It’s funny because I’ve never felt the urge to email Matt my opinion or to ask for his. I personally come to this site mainly for the news I’m too lazy to search the web for myself.
exactly, why would I care about Matt’s opinion. He’s some fan with no more baseball knowledge than I. If i want to shoot opinions back and forth, I’ll hang out with a friend. If I want someone to compile all the Mets news into one place, I’ll come to metsblog.com. That’s why I feel actually, the beat writer blogs are WAY better than this. They’re on the inside, Matt is still an outsider who wishes he was on the inside, and basically has done everything SNY wants him to do, in order to obtain that.
lighen up darkstar matt has become more of an insider than u or me and its obious that he has his sources so cut the man some slack
LOL! That was pathetic. If you like the other ones so much, why are you always here? If care so little about matt’s opinion WHY DID YOU EVEN CHECK THE COMMENTS SECTION OF THIS POST MUCH LESS COMMENT??? I mean, its ALL about matt’s opinions – which in these cases I agree with but thats not the point. You have every right to post your comment but do yourself a favor and try to be coherent in your opinions. Go tell that to you buddy.
Wow, how about try to be coherent yourself? Good luck with that by the way.
You have to wonder when Matt says
“I’m going to write as an honest, in-the-moment Mets fan, who sometimes is angry, sometimes is overly confident, and who sometimes is freaking out, because that’s who I am, and that’s what I have fun doing.”
Does he mean he will bite the hands (SNY) that feeds him?
Again just wondering.
Thanks Matt for the new format. I always check Metsblog on my blackberry all the time. The old format I had to scroll down the columns until finally get to the “meat & potatoes”. This is much, much better. Add the comments and this would be great.
I concur – the site was so unwieldly on Blackberry before. Nice job!
This is off topic, but I was watching the Cubs Astros game and was thinking. When the Cubs come to Citi Field, do you think Pinella will use Heilman at all? I hope so so we can BOOO him out of Flushing….
good morning my friends – its odd yesterday was the first day of the season and it still feels like spring training – anyhoo its time for “this day in mets infamy with rusty” so lets bust amove like our new poster big daddy kane (kool moe dee wannabe) would say (lol i know its young mc but deal with it )
first off happy b-day to jopurneyman outfielder from the ‘63 team Joe Hicks (1933)
Transactions:
New York Mets signed free agent Clint Hurdle on April 7, 1983. – the once rookie of the year with the royals tried to ressurect it with the mets – tore up tidewater that year – was traded in 85 came back in ‘87 and became a respected manager with the rockies
New York Mets signed free agent Bob “no not that one”Gibson on April 7, 1987.
Cincinnati Reds claimed Pete Schourek of the New York Mets on waivers on April 7, 1994. – decent pitcher – had more sucess with cincy though
and on this date in ‘02 mo vaughn tried to escape the “im not fat i’m big boned mental hospital and buffet bar” when he heard that beefsteak charlies reinstituted their all u can eat shrimp dinners – he was caught 5 feet outside the fence cuz he was winded by the distance he ran – all 10 feet !!
any reason why the comments section are posting newer posts first?
hey kong thanks for defending me against big daddy kane – aka young mc last nite lol
oh clem if u are here tonite i was there yesterday – i was the short red headed heavyset guy with the STAUB jersey on ya shoulda said hi
oh guys = i heard on loudmouths before – for all of u lastings milledge supporters – he was fined by manager manny acta when he skipped a team meeting – for his 24th b-day – what a immature je-rk
That’s funny, sounds like something Milliedge would do!
wow – you have to wonder, what the heck he was thinking. He keeps that up, no team will want him and he’ll be slinging burgers to pay the rent – lol.
Braves beating Philly again 2-0 going into the 3rd!
Batting the pitcher in the 8th hole is an utterly idiotic idea. It makes the first run through the lineup incredibly weak. Imagine starting the second inning with Beltran, Church, Schneider. If one of them gets on, who would you rather coming up with two outs, Castillo or the Pitcher? If batting the pitcher 8th is such an awesome idea, Manuel would have implemented it already. The Card do it because their 5-7 in the lineup is incredibly weak (not so much in the Met’s case) and must fully maximize RBI opportunities for Albert Pujols
“If one of them gets on, who would you rather coming up with two outs, Castillo or the Pitcher?”
Whos pitching?
Wow, so many haters. Too many people out there with a lot of time on there hands. Matt great job here. I dont think people realize the amount of time,effort and sacrifice it takes to run a blog of this magnitude. People stop drinking the haterade! Lets Go Mets.
Dom
Pessimets.com
Haters is just a strong word.
No it’s not. It’s perfect. People just like to whine…especially here
Ok here is my question, sorry if this offends.
Why did you even post this Matt? Is it Met news? These are emails that you don’t even have to respond to. If you chose to, great. But why do we need to read them?
This almost seems like you are playing a little poor me with the commenters. You run a very successful blog and do not need to answer to ANY single blogger and the bloggers do not really need to read your hate mail.
exactly. oh poor me, there’s nut-jobs emailing me and calling me bad names. boo-hoo
This comes off very egotistical. Matt isn’t the only blogger who gets this kind of crap, but you don’t see them posting it. It comes with the territory.
Quit the sulking! You’re living your dream buddy!
I don’t think Matt is sulking at all. This a community and family, though an often immature one. If Matt wants to share his problems (and in this case, it’s in the form of hate mail) with his family, then it’s his right. He’s our Dad when it comes to this blog, and we, as his children, should be a little sympathetic sometimes.
maybe Matt could’ve premised it with, “thought I’d post some funny emails I get”.
But nonetheless, he is Mr. TV now.
ARE YOU PEOPLE KIDDING ME?
I find a certain level of humor in the folks that think there’s a SNY/Metsblog conspiracy that exists only to filter the Mets news that you and I are allowed to read. What is this, 1943 Germany? If you have ever gotten your feelings hurt because Matt hasn’t taken his time to respond to your idiotic email, then please enroll yourself in Big Brothers/Big Sisters and find yourself a real, flesh bearing, human to pal around with…
With that being said, I have to say Matt that I was a little disappointed in the fact that you let North Korea launch that long range missle…you’re such a jerk
I would like to know the age or last level of school completed by some of the people who asks Matt these questions. Come on guys, lighten up! You guys expect Matt and this site to be perfect and there is no such thing. Don’t forget, he’s doing us a favor with this blog.
Despite Brock’s earlier knee-jerk and incorrect a-s-sessment of Fox News, on this point, he is correct. The features are fantastic on Intense Debate (the up./own votes, the editing button is a HUGE improvement, etc) but there were too many bugs and bad features. If they could address the bugs, get the comments to be on one page (or at least 100 of them), not hide replies to other comments, and require a log-in to comment, I’d be all for Intense Debate.
Gee thanks Gipper…yeah, I guess you are right, people like Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly aren’t just out to get rich EXACTLY like Keith Olbermann.
Their military service (oops, have any of them served one day?) truly shows their patriotism.
Fox “News” is a joke, as are people who take it seriously as news.
well to me both msnbc and fox news are hacks for putting there agenda on the air instead of reporting. I watch both and then come up with my own opinion which is what your suppose to do.
You should be smart enough tp separate commentary shows from the news programming. I had to force my very left wing fiancee – a very bight attorney – to watch the newscasts on FNC (not the commentary shows), and she had to admit the newscasts on FNC are not slanted. But here is not the place. I was just needling you.
Amen Rukus….I agree 100%. Truth and reality certainly lie in between the extremes and the people making millions by selling one side.
The funniest thing is that I saw Olbermann recently on Bill Maher and he was talking about how he had recently seen Hannity somewhere and Hannity said something about how crazy it was that people think they hate each other.
They are all actors making great livings.
Yeah lol I seen that one it was 2 weeks ago.
Fair enough Gip, and I agree, we should all be apolitical Met fans on here….
I lived in Seattle from 1989–2001 and went to Portland a lot and love both cities, and I was wondering how a conservative Reagan guy survived there, but I guess your fiance must help!
i’m a libertarian that was originally a democrat – so that means im screwed whoever wins lol
there was a great rock/metal scene back then – the accused forced entry coven queensryche tad screaming trees moving targets sloppy seconds mentors etc