Updated Post – March 24, 11:50 PM New York City Mayor Eric Adams was at Citi Field on Thursday morning to announce that he has signed an expanded exemption for private employees that would allow athletes and performers in the City. Today we’re taking another step, putting New York-based athletes of a level playing field, ” Adams said. “We were treating our performers...
Why are you a Mets fan? I know for me, personally, I’m a Mets fan because my parents probably would have kicked me out of the house if I wasn’t. Growing up in Queens, just ten minutes away from the ballpark, being a Mets fan came easy to them. That was instilled in my brother and I too, also being raised just ten minutes away from the ballpark. Our father would’ve raised us in...
The New York Mets announced that they have called up Logan Verrett from Triple-A Las Vegas and activated him to the 25 man roster. Verrett was scratched from his start for Las Vegas last night and took an overnight flight to NYC. Verrett, 26, was 3-4 with the Mets with a 4.02 ERA and 1.438 WHIP in 19 appearances including four starts. He made one start for Las Vegas, tossing 6.0 scoreless...
Hey Mets Fans! How would you like to go to the hottest Mets event of the year celebrating the 1986 World Champion New York Mets! Here’s your opportunity to Win A Free VIP Ticket to the Kings of Queens Reunion with Darryl Strawberry, Dwight Gooden, and the 1986 Mets. Here are the details followed by how you can win a FREE TICKET to the event. What: Kings of Queens 1986 Mets Reunion...
This is a whole new generation. When I was growing up, we had candy cigarettes (gone) and Big League Chew (still around). While playing baseball, we used to have the candy cigarettes so we could smoke like Keith Hernandez, or we would shove a ton of Big League Chew in our mouths to look like Lenny Dykstra. Dykstra was such a legendary chewer that he was said to have stained the AstroTurf at the...
Thank You New York, by Vic Black As some of you may have gathered my time with the New York Mets is at its end. I didn’t play for 10 years nor was I an All-star or contributor to last seasons amazing run BUT I’ll never forget my time playing for the greatest fans/city in baseball. From walking the streets of Manhattan, to riding the 7 Line daily to Citi Field I was given moments...
With the New York Mets just clinching their first postseason berth in almost a decade, excitement is high all over NYC. To celebrate the team’s return to the playoffs, Delta Air Lines, the Official Airline of the New York Mets, today dedicated a Mets-branded Boeing 757 at JFK Airport. NY Mets COO Jeff Wilpon, Mets great Keith Hernandez and Mr. and Mrs. Met joined Gail Grimmett, Delta Air Lines’...
In 2012, then Mayor Bloomberg announced that New York City had reached a deal with Sterling Equities, a real estate company owned by Fred Wilpon and Saul B. Katz, to transform Willets Point into modern low to mid income housing mecca complete with a shopping mall. However, about a year into the project and after NYC poured $400 million dollars into the project, community and church groups who...
I’ve been a reader of newspapers for as long as I can remember. Born in the Bronx and raised on Long Island I spent years reading the NYC tabloids and then Newsday. Now living upstate I read the local paper to see what streets have sinkholes the size of in-ground swimming pools. I still keep up with the NY papers using their online sites. But in my humble opinion, nothing beats a foldable paper...
The Mets announced that pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka has been placed on the DL with inflammation in his right elbow. Terry Collins said he will not throw for 7-10 days to let the inflammation subside. There has been no talk about surgery or any structural damage, for now, but he will be examined again after inflammation diminishes. “I’m sure it’s just from all the innings,” Collins said. “Like we...
Sandy Alderson continues to push his 90 wins mantra and said today that it wasn’t just an expectation, but the goal and a challenge for Terry Collins and the team. “It wasn’t a guarantee. It wasn’t a prediction. It was a challenge,” Alderson said. “It’s important for us to change the conversation. The 90 wins is about setting a challenge.” “It’s...
In conjunction with the 2013 All Star Game, fans are invited to share their love of the All Star Game by submitting a TwitPic, Instagram or Vine with the hashtag #iTunesMLB. Pictures can include pics from a past game, this year’s tickets, a collection of their All-Star gear, a picture in front of the apple statues around NYC, etc. Contest runs from now till 7/17 and 5 random winners will score a...
