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Remember the New York Met: Future superstar Ike Davis

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ESNY travels back in time to a season where it looked like Ike Davis was going to be a star for the New York Mets.

At a school that was mostly Jewish, like mine, seventh grade, which started in September 2009, was Bar Mitzvah season. And Bar Mitzvah season meant I quickly discovered how much I hated Bar Mitzvahs.

They were all the same. You stood in a dark room as people danced around you. If you could, you stayed off to the side, because you couldn’t dance. You didn’t know how to talk to girls either, so you did your best to be unobtrusive, almost invisible.