☀️ Good Morning:
The Year of Grimace is over.
Mets fans hope it carries into 2025.
The fast food mascot turned good luck charm is one of the indelible images from 2024.
We open the newsletter with it today after McDonald’s Senior Marketing Director answered some questions on X on Thursday about everyone’s favorite purple character.
*Paging Pete Alonso and Scott Boras: Can you make a decision so we have real news to talk about soon?!
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Introduced only two years after the Miracle Mets shocked the world in 1969, Grimace, the purple dino-looking character representative of Happy Meals and Big Macs came to being.
53 years later, Grimace was reborn at Citi Field with one awkward pitch.
That pitch came on June 12, when the Mets were 29–37, 16.5 games out of first place, and when nobody, I mean nobody, believed they were about to embark on one of the most magical runs in franchise history.
Then it started. The Mets put five runs on the board in the first two innings of that June 12 game against the Marlins, winning 10–4, beginning a seven-game winning streak.
Carlos Mendoza’s group finished the season 60–36, the second best mark in baseball over that span, culminating in a miraculous, OMG victory over the hated Braves to catapult them into the playoffs.
By October, you couldn’t look up at a billboard or ride the subway without seeing purple. Grimace and the Mets had become synonymous.
So how did it all start?
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