Meet the Silverman-Larkins (a blog by a Mets family about the Mets family)

We are a family of New York Mets fans. It all started with Fran Silverman and Gary Larkin, who met as Mets fans back in 1985. In fact their first date was April 19 game against the Cardinals, I believe.

Over the past 23 years, Fran and Gary met, got married, moved to Connecticut and had three children. All our devout Mets fans: Corey, 14, Degen, 12 and Ethan, 6.

We thought it would be a good idea to start sharing our thoughts, experiences, photos, videos and anything else Mets-related.

The idea is to have each of us blog once a week on different topics related to the team from Flushing that has captured our hearts, ripped them out, pounced on them and made us proud. We plan on giving you all types of commentary from the strategy behind Willie Randolph's crazy managing style to what uniform combinations are the luckiest to why and how the Mets wound up with a mechanical Apple beyond centerfield at Shea.

We also decided to add links to other Mets blogger sites and would love to elicit feedback from all you Mets fans out there who have great stories of fandom.

Chief of Met Fandom, Silverman-Larkins
Gary Larkin