About MetsBlog and Matthew Cerrone

The first Mets game I remember was in 1984, when I was nine years old.  The majority of my Connecticut family liked the Yankees.  So, in an effort to be different, I picked the Mets. I immediately took to Darryl Strawberry and Doc Gooden, who were young, exciting, a bit brash and powerful. The team won, and I was hooked.

In 2003, while living in Arlington, VA, I started MetsBlog.com as a project in college, because, as an out-of-market fan, I could not watch the games on TV, I missed listening to WFAN, and I had no Mets fans to talk with about the team; and I continued to write the blog as a hobby, even though very few people were reading. However, with a lot of hard work and creativity, more and more people tuned in, and so I made it my full-time job in 2006.

There are lots of people who know more about the Mets and about baseball than I do. But that’s the point: Every day I try to learn something new, I’m always seeking how or why things happen to this team, and I try my best to connect that curiosity to the people who read my blog. In a given 24-hour period, you can expect to find dozens of updates only about the Mets, linking to other fan blogs, outstanding work by beat reporters, video, audio, and anything else I find interesting about my favorite team throughout a busy day.

Today, MetsBlog.com is read by roughly 35,000 people every day, totaling around 3.5 million page views every month, making it one of the most popular team-sports blogs on the web. In 2007, I partnered with SNY, the TV home of the Mets, to help develop more in-depth content for MetsBlog.com, while working to create team-specific blogs and digital projects for their website, SNY.TV, with whom I was nominated for two New York Emmy Awards in 2008.

During my time writing MetsBlog.com, I have been interviewed about the Mets and my work in digital media on radio, including WFAN, ESPN, and on countless other stations across the country; and on television, including SNY, ESPN News, WNBC and WPIX, among others; while being quoted in several print publications, including The New York Times, New York Daily News, Newsday, Sports Illustrated and on ESPN.com. However, nothing will be beat the one on one connection and conversations I share with thousands of fellow Mets fans every day, be it on Twitter, Facebook, MetsBlog.com, or simply via e-mail.

We are a passionate, hopeful, intense group of fans, which I’m honored to be part of, and I’m glad I can help give people something to talk and think about throughout the day on MetsBlog.com.

In that time, I have learned through experience how best to build an online brand and audience, and keep both growing; how to turn a hobby in to a job; how to best leverage new media tools, partnerships and online relationships; and, as a fan, I now understand the most effective ways to communicate with teams, athletes and reporters, all of whom tend to be quite skeptical of ‘bloggers.’

To book me for an interview or speaking engagement, be it to talk about the Mets or my experience in sports blogging, new media and turning an online hobby in to a job, contact me here.

To read a report from Neil Best in Newsday, regarding me and MetsBlog from 2007, click here.

To see a video from SNY about my Yankees-fan wife and I, attending the Mets-Yankees game before our wedding, click here.

• Search

  Search for:

• MetsBlog Fan Confidence Rating

  

• Archives

  Select Month February 2012 January 2012 December 2011 November 2011 October 2011 September 2011 August 2011 July 2011 June 2011 May 2011 April 2011 March 2011 February 2011 January 2011 December 2010 November 2010 October 2010 September 2010 August 2010 July 2010 June 2010 May 2010 April 2010 March 2010 February 2010 January 2010 December 2009 November 2009 October 2009 September 2009 August 2009 July 2009 June 2009 May 2009 April 2009 March 2009 February 2009 January 2009 December 2008 November 2008 October 2008 September 2008 August 2008 July 2008 June 2008 May 2008 April 2008 March 2008 February 2008 January 2008 December 2007 November 2007 October 2007 September 2007 August 2007 July 2007 June 2007 May 2007 April 2007 March 2007 February 2007 January 2007 December 2006 November 2006 October 2006 September 2006 August 2006 July 2006 June 2006 May 2006 April 2006 March 2006 February 2006 January 2006 December 2005 November 2005 October 2005 September 2005 August 2005 July 2005 June 2005 May 2005 April 2005 March 2005 February 2005 January 2005 December 2004 November 2004 October 2004 September 2004 August 2004 July 2004 June 2004 May 2004 April 2004 March 2004 February 2004 January 2004 December 2003 November 2003 October 2003

Avatars by Sterling Adventures