Mets Poems - Poems about Mets

If you think it best, I'll go away And wait alone until someday We'll meet that day at Citi Field Behind home plate in seats that yield The perfect shot for the kiss cam I'll kiss you first then take your hand And with my hand atop your ring The ring of promise that you'll bring I'll ask you if you'll marry...

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Sitting here on the fabled Lower East Side I watch the electric warriors on my TV screen 7 innings of shut out ball for the Mets But relievers came in and gave up a few runs Victory is sweet But they rarely let a pitcher pitch 9 innings anymore Would have been nice to see Noah Syndegard...

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Been a fan of the New York Metropolitans since the beginning The early teams were hapless Leading Casey S to ask "Can anybody here play the game?" This year they started out 10 and 1 - a record rarely matched in baseball New manager , new hopes They managed to take the series in 1969 and 1986 so this season hopefully...

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Another spring day I lie down and watch the game Keeping it together...

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Should one watch sports or go see great art Why not do both ? After all Carl Sandburg wrote a poem about baseball and he was an artist No. I don't draw as well as the old masters but I do enjoy doodling ...

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In the exhibition game today The Mets are battling the Yankees I remember the early Mets Kranepool and Hunt come to mind Baseball defines this country As it did in the movie "Field of Dreams" I read in a men's magazine that a ballplayer made it into a prestigious poetry magazine The years come and go A new...

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The game continued on TV in the Big Apple I even talked my mother into watching it The N.Y. team played well and triumphed! My team - the Mets - the one I support I played catcher 45 years ago If I had focused more - who knows ...

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Now I see that World Series time has arrived Seems to me that something is missing there The NY Mets aren't in it As a fan from their inception I remember Mr. Stengel and Art Shamsky(Another Jewish Ballplayer...

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Two National League teams departed New York City when the Dodgers and Giants left the vicinity. Both teams went to California out on the West Coast. The Big Apple was without a National League host. An expansion four years later brought another team. Newspaper editor Joan Payson fulfilled a dream. Again, New Yorkers could see a National League game. A new team...

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