Sometime in late January or early February, the Mets social media announced that the ‘2024 Mets Yearbook’ would premiere on February 11.

Mets Yearbook is a fun little recap that shows the highlights of a given Mets season.

They often air during rain delays - when they cut away from the booth because there’s nothing left to talk about for that game while it’s in a delay, they show a Mets Yearbook video.

I read about it on social media, because I do not get the local programming during a rain delay.

Sometimes they air during the day on SNY, the Mets channel, which I’ll watch when I’m visiting my parents, so it’s not like I’ve never seen a Mets Yearbook - it’s just not something I see a lot of.

But I got excited about the 2024 edition, because it was such an exciting season that to relieve it in Yearbook form would be fun.

So I asked my mom to record it, and I watched it when I went down over February break a couple of weeks ago.

I thought the shows were only a half-hour long - maybe some are. This one was an hour.

And it was incredibly disappointing.

As I mentioned, I’ve seen Mets Yearbooks before - they’re filled with highlights of the season.

Sometimes there’s a date accompanying a highlight and the video jumps from fun game to fun game - even in a bad season, over the course of 162 games there are some fun highlights to show.

I could not believe how few highlights there were from the 2024 season.

It was so much talking.

Ron Darling and Gary Cohen - TV voices. Great. Andy Martino and Anthony DiComo - beat writers. Fine. David Stearns and Carlos Mendoza. Yes, definitely. Evan Roberts from WFAN? No thanks.

They could have done with way fewer interviews. They could certainly have cut out the WFAN guy.

They could have categorized games by excitement - big wins, walk-off wins - the only game they spent any amount of time on was Game One of the season-ending doubleheader against Atlanta.

I couldn’t believe it. I kept waiting for the show to be exciting and it just wasn’t.

Maybe they’re planning some other special that they’re going to make some kind of money off of and they don’t want to give the good stuff away for free.

I don’t know.

Usually the Mets and SNY do a really good job when they have good material to work with.

This is coming from me - someone who loves all things Mets and doesn’t often pan a show:

The 2024 Mets Yearbook was a huge disappointment.