An MMO Fan Shot By @kengiffyjr This wasn’t supposed to happen, especially after that magical start. This Trade Deadline was going to be fun. The time where us Mets fans scoured through the Sellers’ trade pieces, imagining hypothetical deals for the stretch run. Kelvin Herrera for Guillorme/Flexen? Wilson Ramos for Desmond Lindsay? Sigh. That changed fast, and now the nightmare season has...
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An MMO Fan Shot by JE All Mets fans are naturally disappointed with the way 2017 and 2018 have turned out. After a World Series appearance in 2015 and a playoff game in 2016, this team has pretty much crashed and burned. They lost 92 games last year, and there is an excellent chance that this year will be even worse. There is talk around Mets executives about “a quick rebuild” and becoming...
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An MMO Fan Shot by Marc Epstein (Mystere2417) I was born and raised a New York Mets fan. I came into this world one week before the birth of the franchise. My father was a New York Giants fan, and like many New Yorkers, he embraced the Amazin’s when they came to town as lovable losers and passed the orange and blue fan legacy on to his only son. Lindsey Nelson, Ralph Kiner and Bob Murphy...
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An MMO Fan Shot by Marc M. (Not4) It’s always interesting how fans’ views can be so polarized. Two different people can look at the same situation and come away with utterly different and contradictory conclusions. One group of fans may love a player that the other group loathes with a passion. Despite this axiomatic truth, it’s a safe bet that virtually all fans would agree that, thus far, the...
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An MMO Fan Shot by Kevin Deutsch It was the bottom of the ninth when I walked into Keenan’s on Broadway in the Bronx, took a seat at the bar, and, hoping to spur the Mets toward a rally, clutched the Mr. Met charm on my key ring. The talisman had previously brought the Mets plenty of luck, like during their exhilarating run to the World Series in 2015. I’d squeezed it during every...
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