What a week! It all starts with the acquisitions of Juan Uribe and Kelly Johnson, and two much needed wins against the Los Angeles Dodgers (and let’s not forget the MLB debut of one Michael Conforto). The acquisition of Tyler Clippard starts drawing comparisons to the Kansas City Royals shutdown pen, which lasts not even 24 hours. But then all hell breaks loose. Over the course of the next 48...
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Here is an MMO Flashback originally published in October of 2014 by one of our readers Matt Stephens. It’s appropriately about Yoenis Cespedes and why he’d be a perfect addition for the Mets. Remember, all references are to last year’s version of the Mets. I also linked back to the original article so you could read the comments like. “This guy blows, who needs...
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Before I get into the point of this post I have to tell you about something that happened to me before last night’s game. We needed to pick up a few things in the way of snacks , beverages, beer, etc. because we were having my friend and his wife over to watch the Mets. So as my girlfriend was hitting the deli counter and the snack aisle, I had the all-important responsibility of choosing...
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Come on, people. We should have known. After all these years, we should have realized after the rollercoaster ride from heaven to hell on those days which will live in infamy, July 29-30, 2015, that the story was hardly over. That the final chapters had not yet been written. That something akin to paradise could somehow be regained. Because after all… This is the Mets we’re talking...
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You know I’ve given Terry Collins a lot of flak over the years, I’ll be the first to admit that. But I’ve got to hand it to him this season, while he continues to annoy me with his in-game decisions, the way he’s handled his players and kept them motivated throughout some pretty difficult circumstances, certainly deserves some high praise. Most of you know how Lucas Duda...
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