Please Stand By

You'd be forgiven for thinking that the lack of posts this week reflects a broader disinterest in our team. The truth is that after momentarily duping us with a 5-game winning streak, the Mets quickly reverted to the norm, incomprehensibly losing players to injury and dropping games/series that they should win.

I'd be lying if I said some apathy hadn't begun to creep into your boy A.F.O.M.G. On Tuesday when the Cards tied it up against K-Rod, I didn't curse the TV or curse the Mets, I just sort of accepted it and turned off the television.

Earlier in the season, last year or the year before that I'd have stayed up and watched it to the end, but why bother? I'm in the middle of a good book and besides, did the outcome really matter? Losses help our positioning for the draft, wins help, what, our pride? What "pride" are we going to take away from this season?

And yesterday when the Mets played at 12:10? I checked in periodically but I wasn't feverishly checking gamecast. It's just not a white knuckle season, simple as that. (In spite of everything, I do find myself strangely desperate to make it back out to Citi Field; I haven't been in a while.)

But that all said, the real reason for the lack of posts is that I moved over to my new job on Monday and I'm still trying to figure out my routine and how Y2K fits into it. In my old job I worked to very late at night and could kind of come in whenever I wanted in the mornings (or at least, could come in any time by 9:00). In this job I leave a lot earlier but have to be in by 8:30, no questions asked.

The end result is that my 2-year-old routine of writing in the mornings may need some revision, it may make sense to write more during the evenings and go from there (with posts appearing in the mornings, most likely).

It'll take me a little while but once I get it all sorted out we'll be back to normal. In the meantime, please stand by.

- A.F.O.M.G.