Blog Update: Name Change!

As the Mets' regular season winds down and Michigan's fall practice starts up, I have been re-evaluating the state of blog. It has been a pretty busy summer for me personally and therefore relatively quiet for the site. Hokeamania recruiting, to a large degree, has kept this bad boy afloat but--and you may have noticed for some time now--the Mets have been almost completely off my written radar. Not that I haven't been closely following the team, commenting on big trades like K-Rod and Beltran, or screaming at my TV every so often but none of this translated to posts on the Interweb. I seem to keep those tears in a different jar.

It makes no sense to call this site "Mets Maize" when I literally ignore half its name. The content is heavily skewed towards the latter. When I first started this blogging experiment just under two years ago, the goal was simply to get me to write more often and consistently. I chose Mets baseball and Michigan football as a starting point since they represent the two sports teams I cared most about and therefore would most likely write about. Turns out: the Mets not so much. Michigan football is what brings me to the keyboard. So I'm making a change. Without further ado:

Maize Pages

oooooooooooooo aaaaaaaaaaahhhh (there's no logo, sorry)

When I first solicited some advice from Brian @ mgoblog in 2009, he told me to find my niche. Mets and Michigan is admittedly a pretty random combo but it doesn't exactly attract new readers (I've met a lot of Jews from Long Island though). While there are literally dozens of blogs dedicated solely to Michigan football, and a constant rotation of which ones stay active, I'm going to throw my hat into the ring and keep on truckin'. At least for another season.

In the meantime, the blog will obviously go under some major construction over the next few weeks, including a domain name change (www.maizepages.com). I have to work out the logistics but updates will be posted frequently and I'll set a date for the big jump. Hopefully everything will be ready before the season starts. As far as vision/content, the goal is to provide a centralized resource for Michigan football-related content but specifically from Michigan blogs since that is what I believe drives a lot of the conversation and opinion. What does this mean exactly? I'm not quite sure yet. But in addition to basic information--roster, season stats, schedules--I'm going to try to create dedicated pages or sidebars to other Michigan blogs of particular subjects. For example, want to read all the "Hello" commitment posts about TE A.J. Williams? I'll have links from MGoBlog, MGoRecruit and The Wolverine Blog so you can read varying opinions on how he'll project. Editorial content will remain largely the same, except the breakdown will look more like this:

• 70% Michigan football
• 10% college football in general, Mike's pick 'em
• 10% Michigan hoops, Mets
• 10% Jets, Nets, Devils and spontaneous rants

To those who actually did find this blog through the random combo of Mets and Michigan, thank you for all of your support. You'll still see Mets posts on here from time to time so I hope you continue reading and checking back. To everybody else, especially close friends, thanks for riding the rollercoaster with me. I know I'm not the best writer nor have the most well-thought-out opinions but this is still fun for me and I'm going to keep doing it until I get either too bored or too busy.

More updates to come in the following days/weeks. Fall practice starts today. Season opener, 26 days.

Go Blue.