Tonight I was watching the Players Choice Awards when I received an email from someone whose comment wasn’t posting after several tries. I logged onto Disqus to try and figure out what the problem was and I quickly resolved the issue for him. I wrote to tell him and thanked him for reading MMO. A few minutes later I got this:
Thanks Joe. I really admire you for the site you have built. Your personal interactions with other fans is unheard of these days and your passion for the Mets really shines through. Thank you for caring so much. LGM!!!!
Wow, that really made my night… Heck, it made my week… Thank you, Tyler.
At a time when most sites are disengaging from their own fans and readers and focusing mostly on generating more revenue and expanding their social media presence, it was so nice to see someone notice that we truly do care about our readers on MMO. As I told one reader, Matlack, just yesterday, I consider all of you my extended family.
Since day one, my goal has always been to create a baseball community that truly represented all Mets fans; guys and gals, young and old, optimists and pessimists. And thanks to all of you, we’ve certainly achieved that. Together we’ve created the largest Mets community on the internet.
Here we are, more than a month into the offseason, and we had over 34,000 comments in October. October! That is pretty impressive, And even more impressive is that it came from over 900 different users. We’ve really created something special.
One more thing… This site wouldn’t be what it is without the tremendous contributions of over 40 writers and editors, each just as passionate as the rest of us. They are all perfectionists too and care so much about presenting you with content that is not only well-articulated, but also professionally written. You can’t teach that kind of pride and purpose, you either have it or you don’t.
Anyway, I just wanted to take some time to thank all of you for making MMO what it is today. So thanks to all of our writers and editors, but most of all – thanks to all of you – our readers.
