A Major League Baseball team based in New York, or the plural of 'met' (past tense of meet).
The team name is short for 'Metropolitans,' referring to the New York metropolitan area. The word 'metropolitan' comes from Greek 'metropolis' (meter = mother, polis = city), originally meaning the mother city of a colony.
The Mets famously went from laughingstock to World Series champions in 1969 in just seven seasons—one of the greatest underdog stories in sports, which is why their logo features the New York skyline.
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