San Francisco, CA – August 19, 2016 – AT&T Park: Portrait of Noah Syndergaard (34) of the New York Mets
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It’s commonly said that there is no true offseason for professional athletes. The same could possibly be said for professional sports fans. Even when their favorite team is not in-season, fans never stop watching highlight reels and player interviews and doing research on their favorite athletes.
Earlier this month, the New York Mets helped their fans with offseason content by putting on a Facebook Live show, featuring shortstop Jose Reyes, outfielder Brandon Nimmo and All-Star pitcher Noah Syndergaard.
The players answered question that were submitted by fans on different social media platforms, such as Twitter and Facebook. However, there were technical difficulties that prevented them from accessing the fan questions, so host Steve Hofstetter filled the time by asking so questions of his own like “who is the better dancer?” and “which Mets player is most like Dory from Finding Nemo?”
Nimmo discussed what is was like growing up in Wyoming, a state where there is no high school baseball and then transitioning to a place like New York City.
“Well, there’s no cow tipping here,” Nimmo said with a chuckle. “That’s what we did for fun back home, and the only cows you can find here are in the meat market.”
Reyes was presented with the difficult decision of choosing if he would rather win a gold medal in the World Baseball Classic or win the World Series with the Mets.
To this he said, “I already won the World Baseball Classic, so I want to win a World Series with this team right now.”
About halfway through the video stream, Reyes and Nimmo were joined by Syndergaard, who helped answer questions that Hofstetter categorized as “more awkward.”
This set of questions included “who is most likely to eat too much at the postgame meal?”, “who on the team thinks they are funnier than they actually are?” and “who smells the worst after a game?”
All of these questions and the entire Facebook Live stream helped the fans stay in contact with their players who they only see about seven months a year and gave them their dosage of offseason video content.
