Good Morning, Mets fans! It is a strange and somber time in baseball right now, with the Mets and Marlins opting not to play yesterday in a stand against social injustice. They will play a doubleheader today against the Yankees, with first pitch of game one set for 4:05 PM at Yankee Stadium. Latest Mets News The Mets and Marlins took the field, held a 42-second moment of silence, then left the...
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On Thursday evening, Mets general manager, Brodie Van Wagenen, was caught on a hot mic earlier today criticizing Rob Manfred’s handling of the league wide protests that are going around Major League Baseball. Here is the video in case you missed it earlier: Brodie Van Wagenen then released a statement saying that he misspoke and that the order came from Jeff Wilpon, not Rob Manfred. Rob...
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“A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.” On the eve of Major League Baseball’s annual commemoration of Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier in baseball, the New York Mets and Miami Marlins staged a short, but eloquent display in hopes of breaking a few barriers of their own. The history making event took place at Citi-Field on Thursday, August...
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The Marlins and Mets took the field around 7:10, with Dominic Smith and Billy Hamilton leading the way for New York. All of the players took their positions, then removed their caps for 42 seconds of silence. Then both teams walked off the field, leaving only a Black Lives Matter t-shirt covering home plate. This comes one day after three MLB games and all NBA playoff games were postponed as...
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There was a moment between 6 and 7 yesterday that it looked like the Mets were going to make a historic step together as a team and withhold their labor to make a collective stand against racism and police brutality. Around 6:45-ish the players came out and it became clear that the Mets would not be joining the Brewers, Reds, Dodgers, Giants, Mariners and Padres in making a stand. Dominic Smith...
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Mets general manager Brodie Van Wagenen had no idea he was on a hot mic when he openly talked about what Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred had as a plan for the Mets and Marlins game on Thursday night. Holy shit Rob Manfred is trying to force the Mets to pull a social justice awareness stunt tonight by having the players symbolically leave the field at 7:10 before returning an hour...
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