Stop the Presses!
Quick one for you all today.
Back in the day before I was one of New York Magazine's 50 Sexiest Bloggers, before I had status and before I had a pager, the young A.F.O.M.G. was a newspaper man first.
Some of my earliest memories are of a very young A.F.O.M.G. running down the hall to check, unlocking the door as fast as I could and leafing through the paper to find the sports section to see if the Mets had won or lost, the game having lasted too long into the night for me to watch to the end.
Journalism was always a passion of mine. At Nails' urging I joined the high school newspaper and became Editor in Chief. In college I worked my way up from Sports Editor my freshman year to Editor in Chief my junior year. The summer before my senior year of college I spent my nights covering the New England SteepleCats for a local newspaper and riffing with Cheddar Ben on all things NECBL.
Journalism's in my blood. To this day after Mets games I like predicting what's going to be on the back cover of the next day's Post and Daily News. I remember the old favorites ("Leit's Out!") and try to conceive of the new ones.
A private citizen, I've never been the target of blaring headlines telling me how much I suck, so that's a difference between me and members of the Mets. But come on, are they seriously going to stop providing the two New York tabloids in the Mets' clubhouse because they don't want their players exposed to "bad vibes" from the press?
Honestly, how soft is this team? Hasn't anyone ever heard of bulletin board material? Using the junk in the press for motivation?
Regardless, being a Met means being part of New York, and being part of New York means picking up your favorite trashy daily newspaper. I'm a Daily News man, Sip was always a Postie. Whatever, we had opinions and we wanted to hear what everyone else was saying about our favorite tean.
Not Mets brass apparently. In their latest effort to up the toughness quotient of the team (past efforts include signing Alex Cora and Gary Sheffield), the Mets have decided to stop offering New York's newspapers for fear that the team just can't take it anymore.
If this fails to improve their play, god only knows what the next step would be.
- A.F.O.M.G.
Back in the day before I was one of New York Magazine's 50 Sexiest Bloggers, before I had status and before I had a pager, the young A.F.O.M.G. was a newspaper man first.
Some of my earliest memories are of a very young A.F.O.M.G. running down the hall to check, unlocking the door as fast as I could and leafing through the paper to find the sports section to see if the Mets had won or lost, the game having lasted too long into the night for me to watch to the end.
Journalism was always a passion of mine. At Nails' urging I joined the high school newspaper and became Editor in Chief. In college I worked my way up from Sports Editor my freshman year to Editor in Chief my junior year. The summer before my senior year of college I spent my nights covering the New England SteepleCats for a local newspaper and riffing with Cheddar Ben on all things NECBL.
Journalism's in my blood. To this day after Mets games I like predicting what's going to be on the back cover of the next day's Post and Daily News. I remember the old favorites ("Leit's Out!") and try to conceive of the new ones.
A private citizen, I've never been the target of blaring headlines telling me how much I suck, so that's a difference between me and members of the Mets. But come on, are they seriously going to stop providing the two New York tabloids in the Mets' clubhouse because they don't want their players exposed to "bad vibes" from the press?
Honestly, how soft is this team? Hasn't anyone ever heard of bulletin board material? Using the junk in the press for motivation?
Regardless, being a Met means being part of New York, and being part of New York means picking up your favorite trashy daily newspaper. I'm a Daily News man, Sip was always a Postie. Whatever, we had opinions and we wanted to hear what everyone else was saying about our favorite tean.
Not Mets brass apparently. In their latest effort to up the toughness quotient of the team (past efforts include signing Alex Cora and Gary Sheffield), the Mets have decided to stop offering New York's newspapers for fear that the team just can't take it anymore.
If this fails to improve their play, god only knows what the next step would be.
- A.F.O.M.G.
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