The New York Daily News reports: Baseball fans can get free tickets to a Yankees or Mets game if they get vaccinated against COVID at either of the team’s facilities, Gov. Cuomo announced on Wednesday. The doses available outside Citi Field and Yankee Stadium will be the one-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine, the governor said. “We call that a New …
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ESPN reports: The New York Mets fired general manager Jared Porter on Tuesday, according to owner Steve Cohen. The firing came a day after ESPN reported that he sent explicit unsolicited texts and images to a female reporter in 2016 while working for the Chicago Cubs in their front office. Cohen tweeted Tuesday that the Mets “have terminated Jared Porter …
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ESPN reports: Hall of Fame pitcher Tom Seaver, who led the New York Mets to an improbable World Series victory in 1969, has died at age 75. The Baseball Hall of Fame announced that Seaver died Monday from complications of Lewy body dementia and COVID-19. The hard-throwing right-hander known as “Tom Terrific” won an MLB-best 25 games in the 1969 …
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SB Nation reports: The New York Mets are having a disastrous start to their season, but on Friday night, they came back to beat the Miami Marlins, 8-7. That called for a celebration picture on the team’s Twitter account! They chose to feature T.J. Rivera, who hit a game-tying double and a home run. But the picture showed a giant …
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That’s the headline everywhere, but Tebow was actually signed to one of their minor league farm teams. Via the Washington Post: New York Mets fans awoke on Thursday morning with their beat-up team somehow back in a race for the National League playoffs. And then there’s this bit of side news: Tim Tebow will be theirs, too. According to a …
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Back in February, I reported that the New York Mets will host its first-ever LGBT Pride Night on August 13th. Today we learn that pre-game entertainment will be provided by dance legend Martha Wash, the Lesbian & Gay Big Apple Marching Band, and renowned trans concert pianist Sara Davis Buechner. From Buechner’s Facebook page: This is certainly one of the …
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From the New York Post: The Mets will host the team’s first ever Pride Night at Citi Field this season, as the latest major New York team to have such a night after the Islanders hosted an LGBT-themed night this month. The Mets in the past have hosted events from Fiesta Latina night to Jewish Heritage Day. Other major league …
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Today the biggest goat in Gotham is New York Mets infielder Daniel Murphy, whose error in game four helped propel the Kansas City Royals to winning the World Series. Murphy, you may recall, has been the hero of Teabagistan for anti-gay comments made earlier this year. Murphy had a stellar season with the Mets and set a home run record …
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Fox News reporter Todd Starnes and Westboro Baptist Church both LOVE anti-gay New York Mets star infielder Daniel Murphy, who is the target of a New York Daily News op-ed piece which came after the Mets won the National League pennant. Earlier this year Murphy got very upset when Major League Baseball Ambassador for Inclusion Billy Bean visited the Mets …
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In our second kiss cam story today, the New York Mets have announced that their kiss cam will no longer feature opposing players as a “joke” to the fans in the stadium. CNN reports: The kiss cam will continue, said Jay Horwitz, vice president of media relations, but it will no longer feature players in the heart-shaped frame in an …
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