Author: Michelle Ioannou

MMO Roundtable: Thoughts on 7 Innings?

The 2020 baseball season is truly like no other, for a plethora of reasons. But one difference that we noticed after witnessing five Subway Series games in the span of three days was that during doubleheader games, only 7 innings will be played rather than the entire 9 innings. Obviously, this makes a difference for a lot of reasons. In some ways, it can be beneficial. But in other ways, it can...

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How the Mets Saved Me: Meet James

Meet James. Mets baseball helped him get through his son’s stillbirth at 8.5 months, early in the 2014 season. That season changed him as a fan and as a person. Here’s how. Tell me your full story. I’m happy to talk a little bit more about 2014, when we lost our son. It was about two weeks into the season, and very sudden and unexpected, caused by a previously unknown condition my wife...

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Hey Met Fans, Support Dom Smith’s Charity

Prior to the game yesterday, Dominic Smith chose to kneel, alone, for the National Anthem. After the game, he emotionally explained his reasoning for doing so: ICYMI: Here’s Dominic Smith talking emotionally after the game about why he chose to kneel. pic.twitter.com/dHZSRJH7kW — Metsmerized (@Metsmerized) August 27, 2020 Smith’s heartfelt words resonated with a lot of people. I saw...

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MMO Roundtable: What Does Andres Gimenez’s Emergence Mean for Amed Rosario?

We here at Metsmerized have been following along with Andres Gimenez’s performance since the beginning of the season. From carving a role for himself in his first MLB start to advocating that his time is now to analyzing whether he should continue getting starts to even garnering ROY attention, we have kept you covered on all things Gimenez. But with that, we pose the question — what...

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Mets Reportedly Will Resume Playing on Tuesday

Updated August 24, 12 p.m.: Per Anthony DiComo of MLB.com, the Mets will resume play Tuesday against the Marlins at Citi Field. The teams will play a twi-night doubleheader starting at 5:10 p.m., with the Mets as the home team for the first game and the Marlins as the home team in the second matchup. Original post: Mets baseball is back… again. According to Joel Sherman, the Mets have not...

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