His analysis was mediocre at best as was his writing quality. He was an extremely biased writer due to his roots as a Boston fan. Boston fans always respect Jeter, but hate ARod because he was the fish that got away. Evidence of this can be seen in the first blog entry Peter made on Boston.com, sniping away at his favorite player, Alex Rodriguez.

He was also extremely unprofessional in his handling of conflicting comments and posts on this board. For example, I posted that Ian O’Connor was a poor writer after Peter posted one of his “columns” here. Peter insulted me, then deleted my post. A childish action, especially from someone who works in the media who’s entire profession is based on free speech.

To be quite honest, this blog hasn’t missed a beat since Peter went off to Bean Town. I personally prefer the work of Sam, Chad, and Josh. If anything, I’d say the change has benefited the site since its not just the opinions of one Red Sox fan.

I went to a Rangers game in Bryant Park before, not too many people showed up, maybe because the Flyers killed them!!

Clemens and Alex = easy pickins…that drove posts on the blog.

He mixed solid reporting of events as they unfolded…with sensationalism (Alex and Clemens) during slow periods.

I’d say Pete is attempting to build a Boston base at the Boston Blog…by sniping at Yanks…

I also bet once he’s established…he will beat on Ortiz and Veritek and any other member of the Sawks as they slide to oblivion…because it brings eyeballs to the blog.

It’s kind of what journalism is all about…

hahahaha. Of course we’re cynical, we’re NYers. BUT it is cool that they’re opening the Stadium for free. If I was there, I’d play hookey and enjoy it.

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I think that Pete left when he did because of business reasons. Think about it. If Pete waited till after the postseason to move to the Globe, there would have been little intertest from which to build his new blog audience. The Globe editors were banking on the Sox getting deep into the postseason to enable Pete to engage with his new audience. Didn’t happen. The Sox were three and done. The Globe editors, I’m pretty sure, insisted upon Pete starting his new gig when he did. We shouldn’t blame Pete.

As for how everyone is dealing with Pete’s being gone, I think that it’s a classic human reaction of how people cope with loss. Aesop nailed it in his fable about the fox and the grapes. Can’t get the grapes? Console yourself by declaring that they were sour anyway. Pete was the BlogFather. Big loss. Sour grapes.

Yeah, I know. (sigh)

I’ll watch from home too. Not only would it be too much of a schlep, but I have out-of-town guests returning from a visit to the city tomorrow and my mom & dad coming in the next day. Too, too busy to even contemplate. Man, it would have been fun.

I keep thinking I’m 20.