3 reasons you won’t completely tune out the NY Mets this season

Is all hope lost with the 2026 New York Mets? You’d be a fool to completely write them off this early in the year. It’s getting late quickly with June days already here. Someone needs to throw a glove into the stands ASAP.

Dedicated fans haven’t stopped paying attention because it’s a part of the summer routine. The Mets were built up this offseason with high expectations only to quickly fall apart. It’s not an unusual scenario for the Mets or any other MLB team. Plenty of times throughout this club’s history we saw them fall well short of where they were projected.

If you’re reading this, you clearly haven’t tuned them out 100%. Why not? There are some reasons why you won’t be quitting them anytime soon.

Why you’re still paying attention to the Mets and you won't full stop

1) The youth movement is underway and not about to stop

From game 1 of 162, the youth movement was underway. Carson Benge made the Opening Day roster. The pounding the Mets gave Paul Skenes on Opening Day seems like an entirely different season, don’t it?

Benge joined Nolan McLean already in progress and that pair of rookies now have A.J. Ewing cemented in center field. We got a glimpse of Nick Morabito and Zach Thornton. Jonathan Pintaro made an appearance and now there’s Jonah Tong to wonder about. The forgotten one, Christian Scott, has actually looked pretty good lately. We should eventually look on in awe at Ryan Clifford’s first big league home run, probably not for at least a few more weeks. Fans often demand playing time for the youngsters. This year will provide us with plenty.

2) It’s the last year of Howie Rose and who knows with GKR?

Howie Rose is done after the 2026 season. Boy, did he pick the wrong year to go out on. Poor Howie will head into retirement without being able to call a Mets World Series, barring some kind of miraculous comeback. It’s a sad way to end a career and a reminder of how sudden we may also learn of the last year of GKR working together.

Gary Cohen, Keith Hernandez, and Ron Darling can make a Mets season worthwhile. Regular public contract negotiations with Hernandez suggest he could be the first one to retire from the booth. As promising as Daniel Murphy sounds, it’s not the same with him. We only have a limited amount of time with this trio calling games. Try to enjoy every random game you get with them.

3) Admit it, a part of you wants to see one extreme or the other

Everyone wants a repeat of 2024 only with a better finish. Rationally, seasons like that only come around once in a decade. Ours was used up. In that case, how bad can things get?

It’s not that any of us are rooting against the Mets, but a shared laugh at how silly things can look isn’t atypical fan behavior. What’s more, we’d all probably prefer a Mets trade deadline that includes a massive sell-off rather than something more in between where there’s very little action. Armchair GMs, which make up 98% of the fan population, are already coming up with trade scenarios for anyone on an expiring contract. A few, more delusional ones, even have a Francisco Lindor trade package that sends him to the Athletics. Mute them, please.

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