August 31, 1997: In front of a crowd of 55,707, Don Mattingly’s uniform number 23 is added to the list of retired numbers on the wall at Yankee Stadium’s Monument Park. Don Mattingly will probably be one of the greatest baseball players ever not to be inducted into the Hall of Fame. Who is the first person to say that he won’t ever be inducted? The man, himself. I worked a...
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Hi Readers, I hope you like the new look… We’re not done yet as we continue to work on a few things. Plus we need to get the appearance up to Metsmerized standards. 😉 Adam Rubin of ESPN said in his chat today, that the Mets are planing some tweaks to the uniforms again, and one such change will be removing the black drop shadow. He says the Mets are looking to reach back and...
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Tyler Kepner of the New York Times posted a gloomy outlook for the Mets who he sees as the cellar-dwellers of the National League East moving forward. He goes on to say that while the Mets remain in a holding pattern, the Phillies have won the division five years in a row, the Braves have a stable of young, major league-ready starters, the Nationals are packed with young talent and ready to...
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John Delcos of Newyorkmetsreport.com and Joe DeCaro of Metsmerizedonline.com will be doing more and more projects together with the goal of merging two successful blogs in the hope of giving our readers everything they’ll need in covering the Mets. Continuing our review of the 2011 Mets, today we take a look at Chris Capuano. Tomorrow: Jason Isringhausen. Chris Capuano THE SKINNY: Desperate...
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We are back once again for another installment of the 2012 MMO Top 20 Mets Prospect list, featuring the number 13 prospect, LHP Darin Gorski. The Mets selected Gorski in the 7th round of the 2009 amateur draft out of Kutztown University (PA). At the time, they drafted a 21-year-old, 6’4″ left-hander, who needed to build strength and stamina, clean up his mechanics, work on his...
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