Junior Lives Out Senior's Met Dream

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New Jersey native Eric Young, Jr., gets to do what New Jersey native Eric Young, Sr., always wanted to do, according to Mike Kerwick of the Record:

Young attended plenty of Mets games as a kid, but rarely pulled for the Mets. Most nights he rooted for the Rockies, the Dodgers, the Cubs� whichever National League team his father � the original Eric Young � was playing for at the time. �My dad�s excited,� Young said. �I think he always wanted to be a Met, never got the chance to� He�s excited for me, and like I said, I�m excited.�