Just Stop

Ok I know I’ve been away from posting on Shea Nation for a wile (about a month), but I do have other writers who have posted on the site while I was away and they continued monitoring activity around Shea Nation. Thank you David Rubin, Jonathan Elfenbein (Mets Trades, Tirades and GM Grades) and Ed Ryan (Mets Fever) for picking up my slack.

Now, that being said, two things have been brought to my attention:

1. A fellow Mets site has apparently been stealing columns from Shea Nation and passing them off as their own. I know that everyone in the Blogging community are all vying for the same readers and feel that their site is the best. But it’s not appreciated when a fellow Mets site can’t come up with the posts they need in time and, with no remorse, goes ahead and plagiarizes work from another blog without giving the original site credit for their work. We, here, at Shea Nation take pride in what we do and when we post an article from another site, whether it be from a news source or blog, we give the original author the credit and in no way pass it off as our own.

So, for now on, I would greatly appreciate it greatly if those other sites, which use our posts, would give us over here at Shea Nation our reference that we deserve. And remember, just because we aren’t naming who you are, we know. We just don’t want to start any problems. Thank You.

2. The hardest thing to swallow out of anything is when a site administrator works for a long period of time to improve his or her site to look the best they possibly can get it and someone comes along and just out rite steals the format. So Vinnie, over at Still Amazin, please take down your current format and come up with your own. I do, however like those random banners of the 69, 86, 00 and current teams that you have up. That must have taken some real time to create and would have been original if we didn’t come up with the idea ourselves.

Thank you, everyone, for listening to my gripes with fellow bloggers on the web and I hope that those in mention will revert their ways and give us here at Shea Nation the respect we deserve.

John Young

Sorry For The Absence

Sorry for my absence over the past couple of weeks. I've been tending to numerous personal matters.

I'll be back posting on my normal schedul soon.

Bear with me. I'll make it through the rain delay and be back before you know it.

John Young

Sorry for the absence

I apologize for my absence for the past couple of days. I've had some personal matters to attend to and will be back this weekend.

On a side note:

The fantasy draft is scheduled for this Friday at eight pm. If you're supposed to be involved in the league and didn't receive your e-mail invite, leave a note in the comment section and I will be sure to send another one out right away.

John Young

Hey There

Hello, my name is Matt Hinrichs and I am a fellow Mets blogger from Brogna Blog, and a long time reader of John's site.

I will be a contributing writer on this fine site and I hope to bring you some priceless insight and news stories from the Mets.

I hope you enjoy my presence here at the site.

Thanks,
Matt Hinrichs

Shea Nation Network

If you haven't noticed by now, Shea Nation has added two more sites to its network of bloggers. This brings the total to four blogs that are working together to bring you everything about the Mets. Here are a listing of the blogs in the network:

Shea Nation - Up to the hour news and happenings.

Mets Trades, Tirades & GM Grades - Perspectives on recent Mets happenings.

Mets Fever - A great mix of news, rumors and opinions.

Mets Prospects - Focuses mostly on the Mets prospects with a little of the big club thrown in.

If you get a chance, check out all three of Shea Nation's sister sites. You won't be let down.

Also, Shea Nation and it's sister sites are looking for a Minor League blogger to join up with them. So, if you are running a Mets Minor League Blog and are interested in joining the Network, just E-mail John Young at: sheanation@newyork-mets.net .

• Side note: The Shea Nation Fantasy Baseball League sign ups are going to end on February, 23 and the spots are filling up fast. If you are interested in joining, use the E-mail address above.

Nation update...

There is a new feature on Shea Nation (thanks to Ed over at Mets Fever for the help).

Above, inside, the title of each post there will be a direct link to the source of the story we're posting on. For instance if I were getting an article from Mets Fever or Mets Trades, there would be a direct link to their sites.

So there will be no more hyper link text in the opening paragraph. To access the the story, all you have to do is click on the Title of the post.

Also-

Ed from Mets Fever and us here at Shea Nation will be posting some of our articles on each other's site. So if you get the chance to click on over to Mets Fever, do it. You won't be let down.

Sick Week

Sorry I wasn't posting for most of last week. I was out with the Flue and some other ailments.

But have no fear, the Nation is back on the scene after sliping more than 10 spots on the Top 100 Baseball Sites.

Let the blogging resume...

Back in business

I'm back from vacation and moving into my new place. So now I'll get back to the basics and back to keeping you all updated on all the Mets happenings.

Moving Day

I will be moving tomorrow to a new residency and will not be posting for about 2 days. I might come in occasionally to give a quick update but beyond that, don't be relying on Shea Nation for up to the minute Mets news, rumors, rumblings and everything else we post on for the next couple days.

Thank you all for reading Shea Nation and I will see you back here on Sunday.

Posting on Gotham Baseball

As of yesterday I have been posting some of the posts from Shea Nation on Gotham Baseball, in the forum section of the site.

This is to further get the Shea Nation site out among a wide array of Mets fans, as well as general baseball fans.

So if you get the get the chance check out Gotham Baseball and my posts.

Labels

There's a new feature on Shea Nation as of today.

The "Label" area at the bottom of the post is there so that if you, the reader, want to check up on all the news on a certain player, all you have to do is click on the "label". Shea Nation labels will have the player's name in it or Updates so you can catch up on all the things that David, Jonathan and myself are up to.

Thank you for reading this blog and I hope all of you will endure the ever evolving Shea Nation.

John Young