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*the New York Mets are a professional baseball team based in Flushing, Queens, New York City, New York*
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(the Mets are a member of the East Division of Major League Baseball’s “National League”)
(major League baseball (nintendo))
(i used to follow the baseball standings in the newspaper)
(an expansion franchise, the club was founded in Manhattan in 1960, to begin play in 1962)
(the Mets played home games in the Polo Grounds from 1962 to 1963)
(the club moved into Shea Stadium in 1964, where they played until 2008)
(in 2009, they moved into Citi Field, located adjacent to the old “shea stadium” site)
(the original Mets were the New York Metropolitans, an 1880s baseball club)
(the New York Mets are an American professional baseball team based in the New York City borough of ‘Queens’)
(the ‘mets’ compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) East division)
(the ‘mets’ are one of two Major League clubs based in New York City; the other is the “New York Yankees”)
(one of baseball’s first expansion teams, the Mets were founded in 1962 to replace New York’s departed NL teams, the Brooklyn Dodgers and the ‘New York Giants’)
(the Mets’ colors are composed of the Dodgers’ blue and the Giants’ orange, which also comprises the outer two bands of the ‘New York City’ flag)
(during the 1962 and 1963 seasons, the Mets played their home games at the ‘Polo Grounds’)
(from 1964 to 2008, the Mets’ home ballpark was ‘Shea Stadium’)
(in 2009, they moved into their current ballpark, ‘Citi Field’)
(in their 1962 inaugural season, the Mets posted a record of 40–120, the worst regular season record since MLB went to a 162-game schedule (2 games were canceled))
(the team never finished better than second to last until the 1969 “Miracle Mets” beat the Baltimore Orioles in the 1969 World Series in what is considered one of the biggest upsets in ‘World Series’ history)
(since then, they have played in four additional World Series, including a dramatic run in 1973 that ended in a seven-game loss to the Oakland Athletics, a second championship in 1986 over the Boston Red Sox, a Subway Series loss against their cross-town rivals the New York Yankeesin 2000, and a five-game loss to the Kansas City Royals in 2015)
(the ‘mets’ made the playoffs in 2006 when they came within one game of the World Series, losing to the eventual champion St. Louis Cardinals in the NLCS)
(the ‘mets’ missed the playoffs with losses on the last day of the regular season in 2007 and 2008)
(the ‘mets’ made the playoffs in 2015 for the first time in nine years, and won their first NL pennant in 15 years)
(the team again returned to the playoffs in 2016, this time with a wild card berth)
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*this is the team’s second back-to-back playoff appearance, the first occurring during the 1999 and 2000 seasons*
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(the “loser’s team”)
(tony + tammy’s team)
(vs the old man’s yankees)
(jeff taylor in full-on mets regalia)
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*👨🔬🕵️♀️🙇♀️*SKETCHES*🙇♂️👩🔬🕵️♂️*
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👈👈👈☜*“NEW YORK BASEBALL TEAMS”* ☞ 👉👉👉
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💕💝💖💓🖤💙🖤💙🖤💙🖤❤️💚💛🧡❣️💞💔💘❣️🧡💛💚❤️🖤💜🖤💙🖤💙🖤💗💖💝💘
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*🌈✨ *TABLE OF CONTENTS* ✨🌷*
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🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥*we won the war* 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥