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10 Years Old

John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 02 2009 08:39 AM

This also means the UMDB is 10 too. Steve J. Rogers could tell you for sure but I would consider UMDB and MBTN to be the two oldest living Met-related websites, especially under their founder/editors. Are there others any older?

metirish Mar 02 2009 08:46 AM

Congrats to MBTN and to you JLC

Benjamin Grimm Mar 02 2009 09:16 AM

Yes, congratulations! I wish I knew the date the UMDB went online. I know it was a few weeks ahead of MBTN, but I don't know if it was January, February, or March. I just created it as a self-training exercise in using Internet databases. I never imagined that more than a handful of people would ever actually visit it.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 02 2009 09:35 AM

If I had to guess, late January of 1999 for UMDB. MBTN was 2/22/99 PS, hard to tell but in full-size the dash in the logo is an old-school Shea Stadium.

Edgy DC Mar 02 2009 09:41 AM

I guess all images of Shea are old school now. Congratulations.

themetfairy Mar 02 2009 10:22 AM

Congratulations to both superlative sites!

Kong76 Mar 02 2009 10:46 AM

A decade of excellence by both of youse.

Benjamin Grimm Mar 02 2009 10:50 AM

Thank you!

G-Fafif Mar 02 2009 02:13 PM

Double YAY! Here's to 10 more apiece, with 10 more championships to chronicle, catalogue and dissect in each site's inimitable style. You've enriched us as fans, as readers and, in my case, as a writer. Thanks to you both.

Rockin' Doc Mar 02 2009 02:46 PM

Congratulations on a job well done by each of you.

TheOldMole Mar 03 2009 10:16 AM

Treasures for every Met fan.

metsguyinmichigan Mar 04 2009 07:26 AM

Outstanding!

Benjamin Grimm Mar 04 2009 07:36 AM

According to this page, the UMDB has 1,097 organic keywords and 665 competitors. Is this a competition to see who has the most organic keywords?

themetfairy Mar 04 2009 07:45 AM

Personally, I don't mind a few preservatives in my keywords. They keep longer that way.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 04 2009 08:21 AM

You win. I only have 42 organic keywords and one of them is "josias Manzanillo" and 880 competitors. Seriously, I don't get this SEO stuff but I know for sure a lot of people care about it. Apparently my site has become popular among some spammish folk who wanna use it to bump their own search engine results. I have a filter that shuts out auto-generated spam, but somewhere out there people are finding my site and taking the time to write vaguely on-topic messages in old threads, always being sure to leave a link in the name and message fields. I weed many of the links out, and delete others, and some I leave as is depending on my mood. I understand how this is good for them; what I don't really see is how this is good for me.

Fman99 Mar 04 2009 03:48 PM

You are both a credit to Mets fans.

A Boy Named Seo Mar 05 2009 09:51 AM

Congrats to you both. Two of the coolest baseball sites on the internet and we're lucky they're both about the Mets. Here's to another 10.