ExWNYer Posted April 25 Posted April 25 (edited) On 4/18/2025 at 2:44 PM, SinceThe70s said: @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! On 4/18/2025 at 6:17 PM, Another Fan said: I'm eyeing the Mother's Day 11:30 game next month to go to. @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! Edited April 25 by ExWNYer 1
Another Fan Posted April 27 Author Posted April 27 (edited) On 4/25/2025 at 12:30 AM, ExWNYer said: @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! 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. Edited April 28 by Another Fan 1
ExWNYer Posted April 30 Posted April 30 On 4/27/2025 at 4:50 PM, Another Fan said: 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. 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!
Another Fan Posted May 5 Author Posted May 5 @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. 1
ExWNYer Posted May 7 Posted May 7 On 5/4/2025 at 9:15 PM, Another Fan said: @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. 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.
Another Fan Posted May 12 Author Posted May 12 On 5/7/2025 at 11:01 AM, ExWNYer said: 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. 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 1
ExWNYer Posted Thursday at 01:05 AM Posted Thursday at 01:05 AM On 5/11/2025 at 9:15 PM, Another Fan said: 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 Their dynasty with Jeter was in the '90s. The had some good years in the '80s but they weren't anything special.
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