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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Video Fan Shot by Anthony Metro The video I am submitting is entitled Ranking Every Mets Uniform in Franchise History. The YouTube videos are broken down into two separate parts. Part 1 – I cover the original uniforms from 1962 all the way through the ‘snow white’ home jerseys unveiled in 1998. Part 2 – We wrap up the rest of the uniforms and notably cover the...
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MMO Fan Shot by Steven Colasanto I love the Mets so much and I owe it all to my dad, but not in the way you would think. After he died tragically in 1996, I was devastated and wasn’t really handling it as well as my older brothers and sisters. I was named after him, and everyone always called me Stevie instead of Steven. I hated baseball growing up and I wasn’t a big sports kid at the time. I...
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