Tag Archive | mets
The Mets’ Marketing-to-Women Problem
A recent study revealed that the New York Mets have more female fans than any other MLB team. As a fan of the Amazins myself, my heart swells with pride. And yet, the Mets — consistent with baseball across the board — still don’t quite get us. Exhibit A, via Metspolice.com, is this Mets press [...]
We’ll say it again – IT’S OPENING DAY!!!!
Baseball is FINALLY here, the long cold winter months are over, and happiness simply does not describe how we feel. Because in baseball, things like this happen: And things like this happen: Thank you Earth, for turning on your axis and rotating around the sun so that Opening Day can come and baseball can be [...]
RA Dickey Wins National League Cy Young Award!
Last night RA Dickey won the National League Cy Young Award, an incredibly prestigious honor given to two Major League Baseball pitchers each year. A lot of “firsts” go along with this win: first knuckleballer to win the award, first New York Met to win since Doc Gooden in 1985, first person to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro and [...]
Quote: RA Dickey on a Female Knuckleballer
*Sigh* What more could you ask for with RA Dickey? National League Cy Young candidate, bright spot in a disappointing Mets season, advocate against sex trafficking, Star Wars nerd, epic pitching face. The guy’s got it all. Oh wait, and this quote, from Emma Span’s must-read post “Kind of a Big Deal“: It’s long been speculated that [...]
Chelsea Baker Defies Stereotypes
Before Lydia and I even started to conceptualize this blog, we spent many hours emailing back and forth about awesome women who challenged our preconceived notions about female participation in sports. Although we can name many women who have excelled in various professional sports, it’s harder to find stories about younger girls as they come [...]
Hibernation is Over; Baseball is Here
Today is Opening Day, one of my favorite days of the year! It, like springtime in general, signifies a new beginning, hope, and the coming of brighter, sunnier days. This morning, the New York Mets were tied for first place in the National League East, with a record of 0 wins and 0 losses: anything [...]
RA Dickey’s Work with Bombay Teen Challenge
Mets pitcher RA Dickey made news in baseball’s off-season when he announced that he’d be climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro as part of an effort to raise money for a charitable organization. Predictably and pragmatically, Mets General Manager Sandy Alderson asked his 37 year old knuckleballer not to make the potentially hazardous trip, but Dickey was committed to [...]
Let the Games Begin!
In late 2011, Lydia approached Sara with an idea: what if we started a blog that dealt with feminism and sports from a different perspective than everything else out there? We both love reading sports blogs and feminism blogs, but the two only intersect when there’s a particularly newsworthy event. We’re big sports fans – [...]
