This blog: the place for all your Scott Schoeneweis trivia, apparently.

One of the great things about having a blog on WordPress as opposed to LiveJournal is that I get to take a look at all sorts of cool stats and facts about this blog, like how many visits it gets (surprise! not many) and where people that visit come from. That includes, of course, the words that people type into their search engines that cause them to stumble into this place by accident. There haven’t been many of those so far but one search string stands out already:

“schoeneweis favorite band”

So, to the person who was looking to find out what the favorite band of oft-maligned Mets reliever Scott Schoeneweis was: I’m sorry you did not find what you were looking for here because I have absolutely no idea what it is (nor have I ever cared). A quick Google search, however, did turn up a Schoeneweis appearance at a Pearl Jam concert. I’m not sure if that’s his “favorite” band, but one can assume he has decent taste at least.

I’m twofold amused by this. It’s funny to me that somebody went out of their way to try to find out what Scott Schoeneweis’ favorite band is. Does he has actual fans that care about this stuff? Or is it just a heckler looking for new material? “Hey Schoeneweis, Pearl Jam has sucked since 1994, and so have you!” Who knows?

On top of that, I care entirely too much about the Mets and I’m not even sure I’d be able to identify Scott Schoeneweis with anything other than a Mets cap and a melancholic look on his face, because frankly that’s the only Scott Schoeneweis I know. I certainly wouldn’t stop what I was doing at a Pearl Jam concert and think to myself “Holy shit! It’s Scott Schoeneweis!” And if I did, what would I even say to him without being a dick? “Hey, uh, sucks that Randolph uses you against righties all the time, huh?” Probably not.

I also love the fact that thanks to this post, bored Internet users looking for Scott’s favorite band in the future will almost certainly end up here as well. I’m sure I’ll get more ridiculous search strings as time goes on and you can be sure that I’ll post them, mostly for my own amusement but also possibly also for yours.

Here are a couple of interesting links to check out (not Schoeneweis-related, I assure you):

- An excellent article on the death of the Kentucky Derby runner-up and the silent treatment that the media gives to horse racing fatalities, something that I was discussing just the other day with a friend. This has to qualify as animal cruelty in some sense, yet the entire spectacle of horse racing seems to have this bizarre reverence that I’ve never understood. I’m just going to take a guess and say it has something to do with the millions of dollars that are gambled on horse races every year moreso than anybody really caring about the beauty of the animals involved.

- Finally, another blog’s take on whether the MLS needs “saving” and what it can do to improve its product, on the heels of my own evaluation of the league’s future prospects.

Enjoy. I’ll be back with more sometime in the near future, possibly after I finally find out what Aaron Heilman’s favorite vegetable is.