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Whenever baseball starts back up again, the Mets won’t have Noah Syndergaard. The flame-throwing right-hander has a torn ulnar collateral ligament in his pitching elbow and will undergo Tommy John surgery on Thursday. Team doctor David Altchek will perform the surgery. “After experiencing discomfort in his elbow before Spring Training was suspended due to the …
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Baseball may be delayed indefinitely, but Marcus Stroman’s competitive juices are not. The Mets pitcher has signed up for a virtual beer pong tournament — sports in the time of coronavirus — and has picked teammate Dominic Smith to be his partner. Stroman’s friend Mike Seander, the rapper formerly known as Mike Stud who now …
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The Mets won’t be heading to Puerto Rico this season. The league announced the cancellation Thursday of a three-game series between the Mets and Marlins at Hiram Bithorn Stadium in San Juan from April 28-30 because of the coronavirus pandemic. The Diamondbacks and Padres also will not make a trip to Mexico City, were they …
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The Metropolitan Opera suspended the employment of much of its staff, including its musicians and chorus, in the wake of the coronavirus shutdown. The sobering news comes as nearly every facet of arts and entertainment shuts down, with audiences forced to stay inside and artists themselves fighting the spread of the deadly virus. The Met …
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Baseball may be on hiatus, but Pete Alonso still managed to hit it out of the park for one Amazin’ fan in need of a boost. The All-Star slugger brought cancer-stricken and lifelong Mets fanatic Kathleen Selig to happy tears on Wednesday by sending her an encouraging video over social media. Selig recently learned she …
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Lala Kent and Randall Emmett will have to wait until July to say “I do.”
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — He strolled in wearing a Mets T-shirt, shorts and cap, knowing no one on the premises. “I saw a baseball field,” Matt Mullenbach explained, simply enough, “and figured that I’d come ask if I could throw.” It was neither heaven nor Iowa, although Mullenbach hails from the latter location and plans …
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The Met Gala will not be taking place on the first Monday in May this year. Anna Wintour announced on Monday that in light of the coronavirus pandemic, the much-anticipated opening of the Costume Institute’s “About Time” exhibit — and its accompanying star-studded red carpet — will be postponed indefinitely. “Due to the unavoidable and …
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Can’t get to the opera? The opera will come to you! The Met, which has been forced to cancel its performances in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, has given music lovers a gift: the chance to livestream its acclaimed “Live in HD” performances, starting Monday night with Bizet’s “Carmen.” Mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, who was …
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MLB issued guidelines Sunday telling clubs to cease any organized informal workouts, further closing down camp activity and, thus, making it more and more obvious that regular-season games will not be played before May — if then. MLB is saying that this is being done to further honor governmental requests for social distancing during the …
Whenever baseball starts back up again, the Mets won’t have Noah Syndergaard. The flame-throwing right-hander has a torn ulnar collateral ligament in his pitching elbow and will undergo Tommy John surgery on Thursday. Team doctor David Altchek will perform the surgery. “After experiencing discomfort in his elbow before Spring Training was suspended due to the …
