Category: Feature Stories
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One year after saying goodbye, Kevin Burkhardt reflects on time with Mets, team’s success since
It was late in September of 2014 when beloved Mets field reporter Kevin Burkhardt walked away after eight seasons holding the mic for SportsNet New York. Now, one year later and thriving with FOX as in-studio host for MLB Whiparound, as well as play-by-play man for the NFL on FOX, Burkhardt sat down with Just Mets…
Rich MacLeod
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It’s almost impossible to believe the Mets will play beyond game 162…
For the last seven years anyway, game 162 had simply been accepted as the last day of the year for the Mets. The October darkness in the daylight at Citi Field served as the ominous sign of the long and cold winter without baseball in Queens, and the beginning of a ponderance that maybe, just…
Michael Baron
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A humbled, yet confident Jeurys Familia is ready for the big October stage
The Mets are playoff bound for the first time since 2006. That’s still almost hard to believe. The Mets have gotten so many key contributions from their roster, from players who have been with the club all year to the new arrivals GM Sandy Alderson acquired in late July for what has really been an…
Michael Baron
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I had a very unexpected response to the Mets clinching the NL East on Saturday…
About a month ago, it seemed the Mets winning the National League East was becoming more and more inevitable. And certainly, when the Mets swept the Nationals in their own building in early September, their fate was more or less wrapped up short of only an imagined repeat of the 2007 and 2008 collapses running through…
Michael Baron
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They did it…
Forget about Yadier Molina, Carlos Beltran and Adam Wainwright. Forget about blowing a seven-game lead with 17 to play in 2007. Forget about being eliminated the following year on the final day of the season again. Forget the six long years of rebuilding. None of that matters now. The New York Mets are the 2015 National League…
Rich MacLeod
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