A Shout-Out to Artist Joe Petruccio

Richard Gross is sarcastic, pessimistic, jaded and looks at the world with a glass half-empty. All of which makes him more than fully qualified to blog about the Mets. Yet, like any dysfunctional relationship, he keeps coming back, rooting for the Mets, season after season with the hope and promise of better things to come. You can also catch him at InsiderBaseball.com during the season where he doles out all sorts of useful, number-crunching fantasy advice ensuring great success as long as you follow his every recommendation. Follow him on Twitter @rsgross

Matthew Falzano has been a Met fan since his arrival on third planet in 1986 - destiny, right? Obsessed with statistics and still very much learning, he enjoys everything baseball related and even more so if it involves a roster building mechanism. He is rehabbing from a WFAN addiction, but frequently slips up between 1-630pm monday-friday. Aside from baseball, he likes to bump Young Jeezy mixtapes in the whip and Passion Pit remixes in the crib. You can catch him on Twitter @theschmets.

Adam Rossi is a lifelong Mets fan who, thanks to years and years of heartbreak from the team, has literally become immune to their ridiculousness. He no longer puts anything passed them; actually, he fully expects them to screw up in ways that nobody thought were possible. Still, for whatever reason, he comes back every season and hopes for things to be different. Believe it or not, he has it even worse as a football fan, for his loyalties lay with the Buffalo Bills. When he's not torturing himself with his sports teams, Adam is either working on the novel he is writing, reading books that are way too sophisticated for him on the psychological state of humans, or having anxiety attacks. He also coaches CYO basketball, which is one of the few things that actually makes him happy.