Today marks the one year anniversary of the creation of this blog. I wanted to take some time out of the Santana news to thank all of the readers of this blog for an amazing year. I started keeping statistics for this blog in April 2007. Since then, there has been 3,983 unique hits and 5,428 total hits. The last three months in terms of hits have been something magical, in the last three months there have been 2,022 unique hits (811 in January alone) and 2,693 total hits (1,128 coming in January).
The idea for 213 Miles From Shea came in November 2006. I started one on Blogspot, but after one post, I stopped. I then saw in January 2007 the Mini-Metsblog feature on Metsblog, and thats when 213 Miles From Shea came to life. Since then, the posts on this website have really changed. The spelling has gotten better, the posts have gotten longer, and now they have analysis. I also have started a few series of posts that I try to keep up, including my favorite, Numbers Daily. At the end of December 2007, I started Get to Know a Prospect, to share information about lower level Mets and other NL East prospects. Since then, there have been 8 of these articles featuring 6 Mets players, 1 Braves player and 1 Nationals player.
In the year to come, I hope to continue to post frequently and I hope to get some conversations going on this website. If you have any suggestions or comments, please send them to eteich@umd.edu, I would love to hear them.
Lets Go Mets
