How far can a Mets baseball travel?

A few years ago, I financed my oldest daughter’s first year of college by selling a large chunk of my New York Mets collection.  This included all my 62-75 Mets Topps cards, yearbooks, and autographed baseballs.  I can remember driving home after the deal, that I had “over-sold”.  Prior to deal, I had felt that [...]

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Total Mets: The definitive encyclopedia of the team’s first half century

As part of the 50th anniversary celebration, earlier this month Total Mets: The Definitive Encyclopedia Of The New York Mets First Half-Century was released by Triumph books, and written by Associated Press reporter David Ferry.  This is not to be confused with a couple of publications titled Total Mets from the now defunct Total Sports [...]

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Mets360 podcast with David Groveman

Brian and David did a 30-minute podcast Wednesday afternoon discussing both the major and minor leagues. Tune in to hear David defend Sandy Alderson on Jason Bay, Gavin Cecchini and other topics. Also be on the lookout for discussion around the Mets' bullpen, Jeurys Familia, Jenrry Mejia, Cory Mazzoni, Michael Fulmer and Brandon Nimmo. You [...]

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Mets360 flashback: Memories of a vacant lot

This is a blog about the Mets but today I ask you for a brief break from our favorite team.  This is a personal article, written three years ago.  It’s about baseball – in a way – but I hope it has an even broader appeal.  I promise to write about the Mets tomorrow, when [...]

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Dave Stark, the man who designed the new Mets360 logo

By now you have noticed the new logo and header atop of our home page. I liked the old logo a lot but with Jose Reyes no longer around, I just did not want to be reminded of him on a daily basis. So the challenge came up to create a new logo with no [...]

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Mets360 podcast with Howard Megdal

Earlier today Howard Megdal, the hardest working man in the blogosphere, sat down and gave his thoughts on a variety of topics. Howard gave insights into the Madoff clawback suits and how we came to where we are today with Judge Rakoff. During the podcast, Howard also shared thoughts on his campaign for GM, the [...]

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Mets Jambalinka: Kevin Mitchell, Aaron Heilman and Bud Selig

We like to try different things here at Mets360. Now some of these work out great, like Card of the Week, Mets Minors and Mets Notes did for us last year. Some don’t work out so well and we stop doing them and move on to other things. So, starting this week we’re going to [...]

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Mets360 podcast with Matt Cerrone

Earlier today I did a podcast with MetsBlog Founder Matt Cerrone. You can listen to an archived version here: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/mets360/2012/01/13/mets360-with-matt-cerrone We talked about both the Mets and MetsBlog. Some of the topics include: CRG Partners Fernando Martinez Johan Santana Daniel Murphy The comments section at MetsBlog How he keeps up with all of the Mets-related [...]

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