Adam Rubin announced earlier this week on Twitter that he will no longer be covering the New York Mets for ESPN.com. Instead, he is leaving journalism to work in public relations.
With Rubin no longer on the job, it's going to be a lot less noisy - and a lot less newsy - at Citi Field.
Trust me, speaking as someone who has been writing daily about the Mets for 14 years, no one hustled harder and went further to get next-level information about the Mets than Rubin. His need to be first and do it with depth and context is an art and science that future reporters should look to when studying the craft.