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Speaker 1: Get Up, Get Up.

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Speaker 2: We're back with some more great bonus content for you

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Speaker 2: guys from the Mets up Con podcast, and we are

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Speaker 2: here with Adam Blazer, founder, owner, operator of Faces of

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Speaker 2: Mets Fan. Can find them on Instagram at a huge

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Speaker 2: Mets Fan Adam.

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Speaker 1: Great to have you here, dude. Yeah, man, thank you

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Speaker 1: for having me. I'm excited to be here.

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Speaker 2: Just like, as an intro to our listeners and viewers,

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Speaker 2: can you tell a little bit about your story, how

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Speaker 2: you started the account, even how you got started in

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Speaker 2: photography in general.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean the quick synopsis for how I got

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Speaker 3: into photography. As I started, I was I love drawing,

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Speaker 3: I do life. I used to do a lot more

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Speaker 3: of it, but uh, real realism drawings and working off

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Speaker 3: of photos. So it kind of led into photography. I

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Speaker 3: wanted to create more more scenes that I could build

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Speaker 3: in photoshop, not realizing how hard that was, so that

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Speaker 3: I could make some like more fantasy styles for realism

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Speaker 3: type drawings.

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Speaker 1: And I just fell in.

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Speaker 3: Love with the social aspect of photography, going out meeting

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Speaker 3: people and.

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Speaker 1: All of that.

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Speaker 3: So that was years and years ago, maybe ten twelve

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Speaker 3: years ago, in twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen, I picked up

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Speaker 3: my first professional camera and was ready to go into

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Speaker 3: that business. And what led to faces a Mets fan

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Speaker 3: specifically is a few different things. The first thing was

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Speaker 3: I was very focused on trying to make money in

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Speaker 3: my business, and that really got me not focused on

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Speaker 3: the creative side. So I had a couple of friends

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Speaker 3: that said to me, like, you should try and do

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Speaker 3: something that's around building an audience as your goal instead

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Speaker 3: of making money. And I'm also a huge fan of

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Speaker 3: Humans of New York. I'm sure a lot of people

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Speaker 3: know about it, but that inspiration is what made me

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Speaker 3: put this all together. It became a huge Mets fan

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Speaker 3: and decided to start this. So April fourth, twenty eighteen

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Speaker 3: was the first time I came out here, and I

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Speaker 3: think I got something like twenty stories the first time,

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Speaker 3: and it's been a huge blast.

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Speaker 1: I absolutely love it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I saw on your Instagram you've had about four

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Speaker 4: hundred and seventy five posts. I think, is there any

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Speaker 4: particular story that's really stuck out to you as your favorite?

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Speaker 3: All Right, So I have a lot of favorites and

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Speaker 3: it's a hard one to choose, But if I had

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Speaker 3: to say the most impactful story that I've gotten was

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Speaker 3: actually on day one. So when I came out here

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Speaker 3: on that day, April fourth, twenty eighteen, I didn't even

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Speaker 3: know I could bring my camera inside to the stadium.

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Speaker 3: So my plan was to just come for the tailgate

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Speaker 3: for a few hours. As soon as the game started,

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Speaker 3: was going to hop on the subway and head back home.

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Speaker 3: I was living in Greenpoint, Brooklyn at the time, so

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Speaker 3: I got on the seven line headed back at the

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Speaker 3: round seven o'clock, and on the way back, some guy

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Speaker 3: dressed in all black just randomly stopped me on the subway.

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Speaker 3: While he was sitting there, he saw me in my

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Speaker 3: gear and was like, Hey, are you going to the game?

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Speaker 3: You know, I joke only said yeah, if I'm going

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Speaker 3: on to making it in the sixth inning, because I'm

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Speaker 3: heading the wrong way and it's already the second inning.

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Speaker 3: But anyway, I told him what my project was, what

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Speaker 3: I was working on, and he immediately started talking about

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Speaker 3: how he was at Game six of the eighty six

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Speaker 3: World Series, and I was like, oh, Snap, pulled out

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Speaker 3: my phone because I was recording on my phone at

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Speaker 3: the time. Didn't even ask him, just kind of recorded

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Speaker 3: him and listened to him. And he's like, yeah, it's

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Speaker 3: that game six to eighty six series, and I stayed

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Speaker 3: until two outs in the tenth inning before I left

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Speaker 3: because I wanted to be traffic. And then he goes

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Speaker 3: into the parking lot and he's listening to the radio

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Speaker 3: and he starts reciting that that order that unfortunately I

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Speaker 3: can't name off the top of my head, but Ray

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Speaker 3: Knight and all of them, and he says, so, yeah,

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Speaker 3: I was. I was stuck in the parking lot in

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Speaker 3: traffic for a half hour listening to history. I just

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Speaker 3: walked out on and for me for that to be

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Speaker 3: the last story that I got on my very first day,

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Speaker 3: that was kind of the aha moment that I know

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Speaker 3: I was gonna be doing this.

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Speaker 1: For a while.

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Speaker 2: That's an unbelievable story. And I feel like we all,

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Speaker 2: either if they're personal or like people we know or family, like,

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Speaker 2: have that story of a game you should not have

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Speaker 2: left early. Yeah, my dad always tells me a story.

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Speaker 2: My uncle, who's who can be a bit ornery. He's

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Speaker 2: probably listening to this right now. He left Robin Ventura's

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Speaker 2: Grand Slam single an ending before and now was I

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Speaker 2: believe the NLDS and I'll see, yes, something whatever, great

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Speaker 2: something happened ninety nine, but he missed he missed a

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Speaker 2: Robin turn walk off home run in that series. I

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Speaker 2: remember where they're playing against either. But we also know

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Speaker 2: you were bouncing around with your microphone with your camera today.

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Speaker 2: Did you get any really good stories? They're gonna be

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Speaker 2: on Instagram soon?

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I mean every story is great, That's what I always say.

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Speaker 3: But you know, we went up to a crew today

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Speaker 3: that was about forty deep, just like a bunch of family,

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Speaker 3: you know, little kids and stuff, and went up when

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Speaker 3: you know, did my whole spiel.

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Speaker 1: Hi. My name's Adam. I'm a photographer and a Met fan.

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Speaker 3: I started a project in twenty eighteen call Faces of

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Speaker 3: Mets Fans I run on Instagram. Basically I go around

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Speaker 3: city field sometimes on the road, just trying to connect

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Speaker 3: Mets fans through their photos and stories, stopping on by,

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Speaker 3: soe if you want to participate, take a photo, share

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Speaker 3: a story. And this man came up out of this

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Speaker 3: whole group and was like, yeah, I'd love to tell

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Speaker 3: you a story about about my uncle Jimmy, And so

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Speaker 3: I got this whole story, and you know, Jimmy is

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Speaker 3: their uncle who had passed away in twenty sixteen, and

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Speaker 3: they all get together. It was a huge Mets fan,

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Speaker 3: so they all get together to you know, every once

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Speaker 3: a year to to enjoy a family game together. So

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Speaker 3: they told me that story. I got a group picture

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Speaker 3: of them. It was awesome.

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Speaker 1: All right.

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Speaker 4: Well, I mean, we really appreciate you coming on here. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 4: the pregame show has started, so the audio gets a

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Speaker 4: little tough. Make sure you tell Mets fans where they

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Speaker 4: can find all your stuff, because it really is incredible

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Speaker 4: and if you're a Mets fan, you gotta check it out.

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Speaker 1: But tell us everything.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so, I mean, basically you could find my Instagram

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Speaker 3: page faces of Mets fans. Everything's plural except for the

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Speaker 3: of I have a Twitter page. It's the same thing

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Speaker 3: I have. I have maybe sixty followers on Twitter. I

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Speaker 3: have four thousand on Instagram, so you know where most

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Speaker 3: of the content is.

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Speaker 1: For sure.

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Speaker 4: We could definitely get those numbers up for you guys

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Speaker 4: need to follow it. It's worth it. Give them some

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Speaker 4: love and uh yeah, thanks for coming on talking with us.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, my absolute pleasure. Thanks for having me right cool,