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SAME OLD METS BUT THEY’RE MY METS
Ah, yes, fellow Mets fans, another rollercoaster baseball season has begun.
Our team has already managed to get themselves into last place and then into first place and then back to last place within the first month and a half of the season.
And now, mid-May brings two of the Mets starting pitchers missing from the roster.
Guess we should be used to that.
Oliver Perez picked up where he left off last season, walking the ballpark. And he’s in the second year of an unimaginable $36 million contract. (Scott Boras is GOOOOD) Now Ollie has… Continue reading
On Being A Mets Fan In A Yankee/Red Sox “Nation”
Hello my name is Pam and I am a Mets fan.
Yup. Yeah I know. Most people in the Nutmeg State say “WTF?” when they find out I’m a Mets fan. Sometimes I think I’d get less of a reaction of bewilderment if I said I was, say, a Padres fan. Or a Nationals fan. But a METS fan? Sometimes people take a step back from me and give me “that look” that says: when you can be a fan of THAT OTHER… Continue reading