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Amazin Avenue Annual Available for Acquisition!

Thumbnail image for AAACover.jpgAnd now a dispatch from the endeavors of Real Me.

The Amazin Avenue Annual–to which I am contributing–is now available for preorder via ACTA. As Amazin Avenue head honcho Eric Simon explains, ordering it this way means more $ for the site and for the publisher, which in turn assures that we’ll be able to continue producing this tome each year. So if you can spare the shekels, consider buying it in this fashion, as opposed to saving a few pennies at Amazon. Sound good? Good.

Once again, if my prose is no draw, consider purchasing your own copy for the writing of such giants as Joe Posnanski, Will Leitch, Faith and Fear in Flushing’s Jason Fry and Greg Prince, and many more. And if you’re curious about what I do have in this volume, I wrote an expanded, ginormous post-mortem on the 1999/2000 seasons (which I’m a bit hung up on, in case you hadn’t noticed). I also have a piece on Met Killers: are they really as Met-Kill-y as we think? Only one way to find out! READ THE BOOK.

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Endeavors Elsewhere: The Mets Killers Team

Thumbnail image for 99_chipper_reed.pngAs I alluded to in my Happy New Year post, I will be contributing to this year’s Amazin Avenue Annual. I enjoyed it as a consumer last year, and I’m really excited to be working on it this year, when it will be a physical book in real, non-imaginary stores. (eBook version will be available as well, or so I’m told; more details will follow as soon as I know what’s what.)

One of the things I’m working on is a piece on a hypothetical team comprised solely of Mets Killers–often (but not always) the kind of players transform from mediocre to Hall-of-Fame level when playing the Mets. I’m polling readers position-by-position* to see who has inflicted the most pain upon the psyche of the fan. The idea is to react to the question in a completely emotional, irrational way, without looking up stats to see if your choice has actually enjoyed great success against the Mets.

* Except for third base, because we all know who’d win that race. Hint: he’s standing to your left right now.

My first poll, for shortstop, is up right now. Early polling indicates Jimmy Rollins is the most Mets murderous man among mshortstops.* Agree? Disagree? If you don’t vote, you can’t complain.**

* The m is silent
** Completely untrue

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At Amazin Avenue: 2011 Mets, So Close to Homemade

Did you know the Mets might field an all-home-grown infield in 2011? I did! And I wrote at Amazin Avenue about how crazy that is, in light of team history. How crazy, you ask? Don’t be such a big shot. Click the link and find out.