The long winter is over. It is Opening Day 2014! The Mets will begin their schedule playing host to the division rival Washington Nationals. A team that finished 2013 on a strong note, but still comes into the new season having something to prove to make up for an overall disappointing campaign. For the Mets, 2014 has been marked by Sandy Alderson believers as the year the team is supposed to...
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It’s like clockwork you know, hell I could even set my watch to it. Every year and almost exactly around this time, nostalgia rushes over me in a wave of mixed emotions. I feel the cold rattle my aching bones yet I know somewhere warm and far away, my team is getting ready for a new beginning. Unless you’re a fan of this team, it’s hard to describe the passion we share for it, at least not...
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Boy, I’ve got to tell you, today is Opening Day and I am so pumped! I am so glad to finally put this long and sometimes excruciating offseason in my rear view mirror and look ahead to a brand new season of Mets baseball! Have a look at our official Opening Day Roster and today’s projected lineup for our 2014 New York Mets: Starting Rotation Dillon Gee, RHP Bartolo Colon, RHP Zack...
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Win A 2014 Topps Mets Team Set! Opening Week is here, thank heavens. MMO has been rolling out a series of predictions over the past few days, and now it’s time for our annual Over & Under questions and results. How many home runs will Curtis Granderson hit? How many saves will we get from Bobby Parnell? How many games will the Mets win this season? We tackle all those questions and two...
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It has become something of an Opening Day Tradition here on MMO; our annual reading of the great baseball classic Casey At The Bat. As we prepare for the Mets to return to action, please enjoy this legendary 1888 ballad that describes everything we love about this great game: Casey At The Bat By Ernest Lawrence Thayer, San Francisco Examiner – June 3, 1888 The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the...
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The NL East, the division we all REALLY care about right? This could be an interesting year in the East when you think about it. No division is more in limbo than the NL East. You have two teams that appear to be the heavy favorites on paper, but one of them already is decimated by injuries. You have our beloved up and coming Mets trying to get noticed again, the young Marlins trying to relive...
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