Fan Shot by Gabriel Pariente Last week, the New York Mets announced that Seth Lugo who transformed himself from a starter to one of the best relievers in MLB over the past two seasons would be stretched back into being a starter for the rest of the 2020 season. Due to injuries to Micheal Wacha, David Peterson and the ineffectiveness of Steven Matz the idea with this move is to improve the Mets...
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Fan Shot by Carlton Chin At long last, the 2020 Major League Baseball (MLB) season is set to start. While the world has very serious issues to worry about, including the Covid-19 pandemic and related economic woes, the 2020 baseball season will bring a welcome respite to many sports fans. Current plans call for a 60-game regular season, before playoffs start at the end of September. With the...
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Fan Shot by Sivert Glarum When news broke that celebrity super couple A-Rod and J-Lo were interested in purchasing the Mets, all fans of the Amazin’s were giddy with anticipation. With his baseball intellect and her flair for showmanship, surely this would be the ownership group to bring the team to new heights for a generation to come! Yeah, not quite. Maybe fans were underwhelmed because they...
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MMO Fan Shot by Gary Rubin The fine art of closing out a baseball game so that your team wins wasn’t always valued the way it is today. In fact, saves, one of the primary statistics to measure the effectiveness of a closer, didn’t even come into existence until 1969 (though it’s been since calculated retroactively), a beyond special year in Met lore to say the least. And that is where we will...
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MMO Fan Shot by Brandon Gross Because it has nothing to do with the Mets. In 2010, Julian Casablancas, lead singer and songwriter of New York’s own Strokes and noted Mets fan, said in a Rolling Stone article that he wants to “…write the new TV theme song for the Mets.” A decade later, it looks like the “Last Nite” hitmaker sort of made good on his promise, as a song entitled “Ode to the Mets”...
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