Matt Matros became a die-hard Mets fan as a seven-year-old watching Dwight Gooden's rookie season. He became spoiled as a nine-year-old when he watched it get by Buckner, and didn't know the true meaning of Mets fandom until suffering through the 1992 and 1993 seasons.

Matt likes numbers, as you can tell from his articles for CardPlayer Magazine, and from his personal website, mattmatros.com. But Matt also likes drama–not only does he have a degree in fiction writing, but he cried the day Bob Murphy died, and he still thinks Edgardo Alfonzo will return to 1999 form and save the team. Matt's your basic melodramatic idealist numbers geek. And as a Mets fan, he will always believe.