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LMAO at Yankees fans twisting themselves into pretzels over Soto. Delicious. With that said the bleacher creatures turning their back to him when he went out to RF was great. As to Soto himself, we've seen players struggle after signing big contracts with the Mets before, Beltran and Lindor recovered, Jason Bay never did. I fully expect Soto to look like Soto at the plate but when I watch him in RF I get concerned about the long contract.

@ExWNYer @Gugny @SinceThe70s Not the best results from the weekend but it seemed Yankee fans were the ones far stressing out over the Subway Series. Pretty ironic as well how Yankee fans reacted to Soto when they actually got outbid for once by someone else. That fanbase isn't used to that. Last year I was at the game when Lindor came back to Cleveland and the fans gave him a polite applause. I'm pretty confident Soto will come around more but yeah the honeymoon period is over for him though.

Their dynasty with Jeter was in the '90s. The had some good years in the '80s but they weren't anything special.

They shouldn't wait 2 more years to meet. Hold a special committee meeting this year. https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/45115659/pete-rose-shoeless-joe-jackson-players-reinstated-mlb Rose and Jackson's candidacies presumably will be decided by the Hall's 16-member Classic Baseball Era Committee, which considers players whose careers ended more than 15 years ago. The committee isn't scheduled to meet again until December 2027. Rose and Jackson would need 12 of 16 votes to win induction.

I was only 2 years old in 1986 but I actually was surprised to learn the Yankees won 90 games that year. With how much the Mets dominated the city back in the day I thought the Yankees were at best like 70 win teams those years

I think the Mets are definitely the more exciting team and, when they are on par with or better than NY AL, the Mets tend to takeover the town. It's a NL city at at its core, IMO. Outside of Judge, there is nobody in the Bronx I'm even remotely interested in watching. Volpe could be one eventually but, to this point in his career, he is an overhyped and underperforming young player. I remember the Mets Clubhouse Store from ads during games but I never lived near NYC so I never actually saw one or stepped foot in one. What little baseball gear you can find in Jamestown, NY (where my aunt & uncle I visit every year live) is mostly Skanks or Pirates although I did buy a couple of Mets caps there several years ago.

@ExWNYer @Gugny @SinceThe70s Interesting shopping at more than one mall this weekend and seeing Yankee shirts/clothes on clearance while Mets shirts/apparel are nowhere to be found. Even as cynical as I am about the Mets I take that as the Mets stuff/shirts are selling out and the Yankees stuff isn't. Like the Mets are the trendy team now. When like before seeing people where Yankee stuff and hats on people who well wouldn't know the difference between John Goodman and Babe Ruth. Anyone remember the Mets clubhouse store? There used to be one a few minutes from where I grew up in the mall.

Yanks drive me crazy

It was a great day other than the final result. Beautiful weather...sunny and 70 degrees...and the crowd of 30,000+ was comprised of at least 10,000 Met fans or more. It was nice spending the day with the whole family. I was wearing a Lee Mazzilli #16 jersey and got a compliment on it which was cool. Monday's 19-5 win eased the sting of the loss and it was awesome seeing Nimmo tie the franchise record with 9 RBI. It's too bad we weren't at that game. That would have been one for the ages. Today's 8-2 win over the D-bags was great to watch, too. This team is rolling right now and is a lot of fun to watch. LGM!

Sorry about the result. Hopes it didn't like totally kill your day But that's still real cool spending time with your son and all..... my old man and I don't necessarily see eye to eye on certain things these days but baseball and the Mets and baseball are always a "safe" topic.

@Gugny The family and I are are headed to DC on Sunday to see the Mets in a 1:35 PM start against the Natalies. Megill is the scheduled starter. First game attended since my younger son and I went to Pittsburgh last season. The wife and older son are tagging along for this one. LGM!

It was a scheduled event that I had no idea about. He was sitting at a table signing stuff, taking pictures and he was totally chill.

Cool beans. Was he just in like a real good mood I wonder?

@Another Fan @ExWNYer @Gugny Had to run up to Home Depot this morning to pick up a toilet part and decided to throw on my Mets hat. Found the part and was going to check out when they announced over the intercom that Dwight Gooden was signing autographs in aisle 30. Good times!

I saw the post-game of the Twins game and Lindor blew himself up over the error. It was unnecessary, but appreciated. And your comment reminded me of a forgotten memory from last night that was a new one on me (but not to my son). Lindor's walk-up song has been My Girl for awhile. Fans have taken to singing it after the fade out when he's in the batter box. Very cool. My son said it started last year.

Aside another one would be David Wells. That game is when I realized how many teams he was on and how solid a career he actually had. I'm eyeing the Mother's Day 11:30 game next month to go to. Very true on the overall mood. I haven't been watching all the games but I saw it seemed like Lindor blew one of the Twins games because of some fielding errors. Last year around now I would have ben all over his case. But this year I'm just like Yeah he always starts a little rusty and I make mistakes everyday of my life. It's cool

@Another Fan @Gugny @ExWNYer Attended my first game of the year at Citi Field last night. Decent sized crowd for an April mid-week game. Kind of a lackluster game, looked like it might be a blow-out after the Mets 4 run second, but it settled into a pitchers duel. Canning was impressive and the Card pitcher settled down after after the rocky start. Tons of weak grounders to shortstop for both teams. Besides the Vientos HR maybe one batted ball reached the warning track. Biggest takeaway for me was the crowd stayed all game and gave Soto a really nice ovation when he came up in the 8th despite his rough start. Might have been a different story if the team hadn't been winning. LGM!

@Gugny @Another Fan I liked Dotel. Such a horrible tragedy in the Dominican Republic with all of those lost lives. Another cheat code is "cup of coffee" Met pitcher Jacob Barnes.

@ExWNYer @Another Fan @Gugny RIP Octavio Dotel. As a young player (rookie?) I always thought he should have been brought in instead of Kenny Rogers against the Braves in the 1999 NLCS. He went on to have a long career playing for many teams - if you play https://www.immaculategrid.com/ he's what my boys would call a cheat code. Sad to hear of his (and others) tragic passing.

I kind of remember the 2000 one in Japan. I was in high school then and the game was on the radio when I woke up. What I thought was hilarious about it was Turk Wendell was pitching and must have missed the strike zone on a pitch. He screamed out the 4 letter f word very loud and that came in high and clear on the radio! I'm guessing maybe it was Murphy and Cohen doing the broadcast that day but I def remember them laughing about it being like yeah well it's so quiet here you could hear these guys frustration on the field. lol Maybe I mentioned that Mets memory here before but it still makes me laugh.

I heard today that this is the second time in the Mets history that they lost back to back opening games. The last time was 1999-2000 when they went to the NLCS in 99 and lost to the Cranks in the WS in 00. Hmmm.

The team started 0-5 last year so there is that. Not the best game today but even in the 8th or 9th innings after last season I strongly believed the team could have came back and won. As mentioned here before I think I am not going to get on Lindor's case for a while but it would be nice to see him not start off rusty.

I'm hoping to duck out of work early to get home for the first pitch. I've got Mets opening day followed by my son's university trying to advance in March Madness tonight! LGM!

Feels like a holiday every year. I love it!

@ExWNYer @Gugny @SinceThe70s opening day guys. Depending how today breaks for me a might watch the end of the game at a bar I frequent. Found out the bartender is a big Mets fan. Even in years where there was nothing to be excited about there was always that hope springs eternal thoughts this time of year. I love opening day