Category: Feature Stories
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It’s not about taking back New York anymore…
New York, New York. It’s the city that never sleeps. If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere as the classic Sinatra tune claims. This city is one collective, living, breathing thing. When it comes to baseball, however, this city is divided. Especially this weekend. But as the Mets and Yankees face…
Rich MacLeod
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There are 17 games to go for the Mets again, but it is NOT 2007 anymore
“…With 17 to go,” is the back-part of a sentence Mets fans are all too familiar with, and wish it could be forgotten. As everyone is well aware of, this is in relation to the 2007 campaign in which the team led the National League East by seven games with 17 to go and subsequently…
Rich MacLeod
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The Mets have a chance to clinch the NL East at home…
With the Mets defeat of the Marlins on Monday night, they reduced their magic number to ten for winning the National League East championship. For those unaware, the Mets magic number is any combination of Mets wins and Nationals losses, and is calculated by the number of games remaining, plus one (the one is a tiebreaker), minus…
Michael Baron
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The legendary performance of Yoenis Cespedes grows more unbelievable by the day…
It’s pretty simple. Right now, Yoenis Cespedes is the best player in baseball. It’s not even close, either. He’s on another level, a level the Mets have so rarely seen any one of their players reach in their 53 year history. It can be argued Mike Piazza was equally as impactful as the Mets in the late…
Michael Baron
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The Mets undying resiliency has them one step closer to October
Meet the Mets–the team that never says never. Ever since this club infused talent with the promotion of Michael Conforto and the acquisitions of Juan Uribe, Kelly Johnson, Yoenis Cespedes, Tyler Clippard and Addison Reed starting six weeks ago, the Mets have shown an incredible amount of resiliency, a character trait that was on full display this past week in Washington. During…
Rich MacLeod
Just Mets 