An MMO Fan Shot by Rebecca Parents and kids are eagerly getting ready for the 2016 baseball season. They’re starting to practice out in the yard, planning weekend trips to the ballpark and shopping around for the best kids baseball gloves and mitts. Some of these young baseball players are going to be the next generation of Mets fans. With only the last few years as a frame of reference, they...
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An MMO Fan Shot by Jason Levin The late September series in Cincinnati where Lucas Duda went bananas and we clinched the NL East gave us the first glimpse at why 2016 should be even more fun and it wasn’t because of Duda’s heroics. That series was the first time that the Mets threw Jacob DeGrom, Matt Harvey, Noah Syndergaard and Steven Matz onto the hill in consecutive games. We won all four...
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An MMO Fan Shot by Austin Smith At the beginning of the offseason, we were PRAYING to have a payroll around $120 million or at least enough to upgrade the roster as needed and give us a lineup that would compete with the Nationals and complement our rotation. Wrong. With the moves we have made, and Yoenis Cespedes of course falling into our laps because of his strong desire to remain in NY, our...
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An MMO Fan Shot by Avi Gelboim Lost in the excitement of the Yoenis Cespedes signing has been the impact on former fan favorite and gold glove center fielder Juan Lagares. Lagares, who is entering his age-27 season, is under team control for the next four years (2016 – 2019) at an affordable $23 million with a fifth year team option (2020) for $9.5 million or a $500 K buyout. During...
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An MMO Fan Shot by Mets Fan In Paradise 1986 was a great year to be a Mets fan. Especially for me. A couple of years out of college, I was living on my own, had a reliable car, and a good enough job to afford the short trip from NJ to Flushing to see the Mets a couple of times a month. After almost a decade of disappointment the Mets had returned to relevance in 1984, and in 1985 they’d...
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