Your 2025 New York Mets: Tomorrow is going to be too late.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve got to get going today. We cannot wait for tomorrow, because tomorrow is going to be too late.\u201d -Juan Soto [MLB<\/a>]<\/p>\n \u201cWe don\u2019t have too many left. Every game matters.\u201d -Carlos Mendoza [MLB<\/a>]<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n \u201cObviously very concerned. We want to be in the playoffs, and we\u2019re not playing playoff baseball right now. But got to come into [Saturday] expecting things to change.\u201d -Brandon Nimmo [New York Post]<\/p>\n \u201cThey\u2019re frustrated obviously. I\u2019m not going to lie but I\u2019m going to keep saying it: We got to get out of it.\u201d\u00a0-Carlos Mendoza [New York Post]<\/p>\n Pete Alonso describes what it felt like to hit a walk-off home run as only Pete Alonso can.<\/p>\n \u201cThat one felt amazing. I felt like I was surfing on top of a dragon there. That was sick!\u201d [Yahoo<\/a>]<\/p>\n A tale of two starts: Act I \u2013 9\/12\/25 \u2013 Jonah Tong 2\/3 IP, 4 Hs, 6 ERs, 3 BBs, 1 SO<\/p>\n \u201cI didn\u2019t give the start I had for sure wanted.\u201d -Jonah Tong\u00a0[New York Post]<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n \u201c[The advice David Peterson gave Tong] Keep your head up. The sun\u2019s going to rise tomorrow.\u201d\u00a0-Jonah Tong\u00a0[New York Post]<\/p>\n \u201c[Manaea advice to Tong while gesturing toward Jacob deGrom] He\u2019s gone through that, too. Every guy out there has had one of these.\u201d -Sean Manaea [MLB<\/a>]<\/p>\n Act II \u2013 9\/18\/25 \u2013 Jonah Tong 5 IPs, 4 Hs, 0 ERs, 0 BBs, 8 SOs<\/p>\n \u201cObviously, today we were watching and I\u2019m glad that he stepped up and gave us a chance to win a baseball game.\u201d -Carlos Mendoza [MLB<\/a>]<\/p>\n \u201cComing back from that last outing that didn\u2019t go the way that [Tong] would have hoped, I think it shows a lot of maturity from him at such a young age to be able to bounce back and double down on what he does well and go and execute it. He did a great job today against a really tough lineup. I think it proves that he has a really bright future ahead of him.\u201d -Brandon Nimmo [MLB<\/a>]<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s what you\u2019re looking for in young guys. Like, show me that you can handle the tough moments, because it\u2019s guaranteed they\u2019re going to show up at some point in time. So you\u2019ve got a young kid who has shown those moments of resilience, and he can rely on those moments in moments like this and know he can get back on the mound and fill up the strike zone and let this stuff play.\u201d -Mets senior vice president of player development Andy Green [MLB<\/a>]<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m really grateful for the support I\u2019ve had in the clubhouse.\u201d -Jonah Tong [MLB<\/a>]<\/p>\n \u201cEspecially up here in the big leagues, it\u2019s all about adjustments and [Tong] made great adjustments today.\u201d -Brandon Nimmo [MLB<\/a>]<\/p>\n David Peterson would later have to give himself the same advice he gave Tong above.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s obviously tough when you know what you\u2019re capable of. You\u2019re going to go through times when it\u2019s not going exactly how you want it to, whether it\u2019s baseball or whether it\u2019s something you\u2019re not necessarily executing. But you can\u2019t hold onto it.\u201d -David Peterson [MLB<\/a>]<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Your 1999-2015 New York Mets<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t miss suiting up. This is what I miss, being around these guys and seeing the fans again. When I retired from the game, I threw everything away and said I\u2019m not gonna ever suit up again, but I guess I\u2019m suiting up again. It\u2019s one of those awesome things to be able to give back to the fans\u2026and go down memory lane.\u201d -Benny Agbayani\u00a0[New York Post<\/a>]<\/p>\n \u201cFor the Mets to want to do this, and to reach out to us, it\u2019s great. The fans want to see it. It\u2019s just a big thank you to ownership for wanting to see this happen and to the players for showing up. We\u2019re just hoping we get through the day, but for the fans, it\u2019s exciting.\u201d\u00a0-Curtis Granderson [New York Post<\/a>]<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m ecstatic to get to do something like this. I can\u2019t wait to get back and just reconnect with guys and see guys I haven\u2019t seen in a while. Players, yes. But even clubhouse guys, the film guy, the security people underneath the stadium. \u2026 Getting to go back and see those guys, give them a hug, just talk to them for a minute, it\u2019s going to be awesome.\u201d -R.A. Dickey [MLB<\/a>]<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Personal Aside: In the summer of 2012, I went on a west coast road trip with my then-girlfriend, now wife, and we bought tickets to see the Mets at Dodgers Stadium months in advance. As we got closer to the date, I realized there was a chance it was going to be an R.A. Dickey start, which was during the height of his unbelievable run that he mentions in the quote below. The stars aligned, I got to see R.A. Dickey in LA, and he did not disappoint. Box score: June 29, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cThat two-and-a-half to three months, man, with the scoreless innings stuff, the back-to-back one-hitter stuff all of that felt like a whirlwind. I look back and I think, \u2018God, that happened so fast. I wish I would have enjoyed it more\u2019 but I don\u2019t know if I would have taken the time at the time to enjoy it more, if I would have lost some of the [edge]. Those were the times in my life where I felt most in the zone, so to speak. And I didn\u2019t want to get out of that.\u201d -R.A. Dickey [MLB<\/a>]<\/p>\n Love our Zoomers? Love our Zoomers.<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s no person I know who can make anyone laugh more than Nolan.\u201d -Jonah Tong [New York Times<\/a>]<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n \u201cJonah laughs at everything. You can\u2019t take that seriously.\u201d -Nolan McLean [New York Times<\/a>]<\/p>\n \u201cNolan\u2019s personality is very bubbly.\u201d -Jonah Tong [New York Times<\/a>]<\/p>\n \u201cI never heard that one before. Bubbly, Jonah? Really?\u201d -Nolan McLean [New York Times<\/a>]<\/p>\n \u201cBubbly? Who said that? Jonah? Doesn\u2019t surprise me. Jonah\u2019s word is quirky.\u201d -Brandon Sproat [New York Times<\/a>]<\/p>\n \u201c[Tong\u2019s] too nice of a person [hearing that Jonah Tong\u2019s first job was a youth umpire and he took his parents out to dinner with his first paycheck].\u201d -Nolan McLean [New York Times<\/a>].<\/p>\n The 2007 New York Mets have some advice for the 2025 New York Mets.<\/p>\n \u201cGoing back to that time and thinking about what I can say to a team that is going through the same. I would say, \u2018Just go for it. Don\u2019t limit yourself. Don\u2019t be timid. Just be aggressive. Be who you are.\u2019 -Carlos Beltran [MLB<\/a>]<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n \u201cAt the end of the day, you are in a position where you\u2019re fighting for a playoff opportunity. You know how many teams would love to sign up for that opportunity, to be in exactly this position? So I would say to them, \u2018Just go out there and just play hard baseball. And if it\u2019s meant to be, it\u2019s going to be for you. And if it\u2019s not meant to be, at least you\u2019re going to go down giving your best.\u2019\u201d -Carlos Beltran [MLB]<\/p>\n \u201cI like to focus more on the positives. So if you told me in February, \u2018You know what? By Sept. 13 you are going to be holding a Wild Card spot.\u2019 \u2026 I mean, I\u2019ll take that any time. I would continue to play hard. Don\u2019t scoreboard-watch. One day at a time, one at-bat at a time. \u2018Let\u2019s win today. Let\u2019s figure it out.\u2019 And give it all out for the next two weeks, and hopefully for the next six weeks after that.\u201d -Carlos Delgado [MLB]<\/p>\n \u201cThis really sucks when everything is going bad. You try to do your best, and nothing\u2019s come out of it. But at the same time, you have to be positive. You have to believe.\u201d -Edgardo Alfonzo [MLB]<\/p>\n If I had to explain to my son what it felt like to root for Jacob deGrom, I would say imagine you had something so special and nice and you were constantly worried that it was going to break and, if it did break, you felt that it was inexplicably your fault but could take some solace in the fact that the disappointment feels more natural to you than when you had something so perfect and good that you knew you didn\u2019t deserve. <\/p>\n \u201cIt means a lot. The fans were great to me when I was here and they were great to me tonight. I always enjoyed taking the mound in front of this crowd. Tonight was just as special.\u201d -Jacob deGrom\u00a0[New York Post<\/a>]<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n \u201cThat was really cool [that the Mets played Simple Man during deGrom\u2019s return to Citi]. This is where it all started, and coming back here, I thought it was going to be a very special day. Thankful to the Mets for playing that. I knew if something was played, I\u2019d probably feel some sort of emotion.\u201d\u00a0 -Jacob deGrom\u00a0[New York Post<\/a>]<\/p>\n One of my favorite writers about all topics, David Roth, wrote a great piece capturing what it\u2019s like to be a Mets fan and how hard it is to rationally explain why we\u2019re so committed to a for-profit entity that routinely frustrates and disappoints us while\u2026OH MY GOD, PETE ALONSO JUST HIT A GAME WINNING THREE-RUN HOME RUN, YES, LOVE THE METS? LOVE THE METS! <\/p>\n \u201cPete Alonso, who had gone 44 at-bats since his last homer, sent Curvelo\u2019s third pitch into the bullpen in right field at a high rate of speed. While Alonso\u2019s teammates bopped up and down at the plate and whomped him on the head and yelled \u201cLet\u2019s go\u201d and emptied a bucket full of little nurdles of Dubble Bubble onto him, I high-fived friends and strangers; a friend\u2019s son, the one who had the five-pizza birthday party at a Mets game, gave me a hug; I was struck, absurdly, by the urge not just to kiss my wife, which I did, but to like\u00a0dip\u00a0her, as I had at our wedding.\u201d -David Roth [Defector<\/a>]<\/p>\n Binghamton Rumble Ponies Hype Video? 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