ABOUT ME
In 2003, as an out-of-market Mets fan, I started MetsBlog.com as a project in college; I continued to write it as a hobby; and made it my full-time job in 2006.
Today, MetsBlog.com averages 2.5 million page views per month, with roughly 35,000 unique readers every day.
In that time, I have learned through experience how best to build an online brand and audience, and keep both growing; how to turn a hobby in to a job; how to best leverage new media tools, partnerships and online relationships; and, as a fan, I now understand the most effective ways to communicate with teams, athletes and reporters, all of whom tend to be quite skeptical of ‘bloggers.’
In 2007, I partnered with SNY, the TV home of the Mets, to help develop more in-depth content for MetsBlog.com, while working to create team-specific blogs and digital projects for their website, SNY.TV, with whom I was nominated for two New York Emmy Awards in 2008.
During my time writing MetsBlog.com, I have been interviewed about the Mets and my work in digital media on radio, including WFAN, ESPN, and on countless other stations across the country; and on television, including SNY, ESPN News, WNBC and WPIX, among others; while being quoted in several print publications, including The New York Times, New York Daily News, Newsday, Sports Illustrated and on ESPN.com.
To book me for an interview or speaking engagement, be it to talk about the Mets or my experience in sports blogging, new media and turning an online hobby in to a job, contact me here.
To see a video from SNY about my Yankees-fan wife and I, attending the Mets-Yankees game before our wedding, click here.