On the subject of news about his MLB star son, Ron Nimmo is on the ball.
The dad of Mets outfielder Brandon Nimmo Googles the slugger’s name very first thing every single day.
“I didn’t realize that he did this until probably a few years ago, but he gets up within the morning and he’ll just type my name into the news,” Brandon, 31, told The Post ahead of Father’s Day.
Brandon said his father often knows what’s been reported about him before he does.
“Because I’m waking up at like 12 or 1 for a 7 o’clock game and he’s already been up and he’s got the laptop out and already checked out all of the articles, so it’s pretty funny.”
Ron, 64, a retired CPA who lives in Cheyenne, WY, where he raised his three children, said he doesn’t share the search results with Brandon.
“I even have learned that it’s probably best that I let him discover about that stuff himself, not for me to trouble him,” he said. “I mean, he’s got plenty of individuals with plenty of input into what he should do and when he should do it and the way he should do it.”
Ron also learned to not take anything he reads about his youngest son to heart — and that lesson got here from Brandon himself, back when he was twiddling with the Mets’ minor-league team in Coney Island.
“Well, I came upon what the grace period with fans is in Latest York,” Brandon told his dad while twiddling with the Brooklyn Cyclones. “It’s in the future.”
The daddy recalled his son telling him, “The primary day I used to be here, they were all my friend. The second day, they were all telling me how worthless I used to be and the Mets wasted their money.”
In 2011, the Mets drafted Brandon out of highschool and the following yr, while he was twiddling with the Cyclones, Ron and his wife, Patti, made their first trip to Latest York.
“Brandon . . . told us of a hotel that was near him. A lot of razor wire across the property over there, bars on windows,” Ron remembered.
Ron and Patti decided to take the train to Coney Island on the 4th of July, right in time for the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest there, which he said was “a nasty idea.”
“We had never, obviously, been on a subway anywhere,” he said. “So we walk out of the subway station and the road is filled with, what appeared to us, like 150,000 people standing in front of us.”
Brandon recalled growing up in Wyoming, where the long winters weren’t ideal for baseball and arranged leagues may very well be hours away. His dad built a 40-by-60-foot insulated barn of their yard with heaters, a batting cage, hitting nets and a pitching machine for him and his older brother, Bryce, 39, who played baseball on the University of Nebraska.
“We spent plenty of time in that barn, and so, it became famous after I got drafted,” Brandon explained.
“A lot of kids on various teams of Brandon and Bryce, all of them used the barn and got out of the cold,” Ron recalled.
Until he was 14, Brandon, who became the highest-drafted MLB player in Wyoming history, played on parent-coached traveling teams, where Ron was one among the coaches. Since his highschool didn’t offer baseball, Brandon joined the local American Legion travel team. Most of their games were within the Colorado area, two hours away, and others were so far as Spokane, WA, a 14-hour drive.
“It was an enormous sacrifice made by our parents to be able to travel. And I had two other siblings … and there’s two parents, they will only go together with two children, so the third one’s gotta find someone to go together with,” said Brandon, whose sister, Kristen, 37, played soccer.
Ron, who was busy during tax season from January to April, said he’s grateful for his wife’s sacrifices.
“I used to be a partner at a CPA firm here on the town, in order that provided all of the things that we would have liked, apart from time,” he said. “Thankfully, my wife was accountable for mostly getting the children in all places they needed to go and she or he did an excellent job.”
Ron, who grew up in La Junta, CO, played football in highschool and wrestled in college before a knee injury ended his profession in freshman yr.
“I do know that it wasn’t his first selection to be working a desk job for 12 hours a day and doing all this stuff so that I might need a greater shot at doing what I desired to do,” Brandon said. “So I actually have appreciated the whole lot that he’s done for me.”
Brandon also credits his parents for his deep faith.
“My parents have all the time supported me on this sport, but at the beginning, they’ve all the time wanted me to be well-rooted in my relationship with God,” he said.
“I tell people, ‘When you just bring your kids to church, eventually it gets through,’ because I used to be the form of kid in the beginning, where I used to be going kicking and screaming.”
Brandon, often called “the happiest man in baseball” for his always-pleasant demeanor, can also be known for staying late after games and giving fans autographs within the parking zone of Citi Field.
“I feel the safety guys sort of wish he would go home sometimes,” Ron said.
“Over and over it’s midnight or later by the point he leaves the sector, and there’ll still be fans waiting on the market, and he’ll stop his automotive and he’ll sign for everyone who’s waiting. After which everybody gets to go home after that.”
On the subject of news about his MLB star son, Ron Nimmo is on the ball.
The dad of Mets outfielder Brandon Nimmo Googles the slugger’s name very first thing every single day.
“I didn’t realize that he did this until probably a few years ago, but he gets up within the morning and he’ll just type my name into the news,” Brandon, 31, told The Post ahead of Father’s Day.
Brandon said his father often knows what’s been reported about him before he does.
“Because I’m waking up at like 12 or 1 for a 7 o’clock game and he’s already been up and he’s got the laptop out and already checked out all of the articles, so it’s pretty funny.”
Ron, 64, a retired CPA who lives in Cheyenne, WY, where he raised his three children, said he doesn’t share the search results with Brandon.
“I even have learned that it’s probably best that I let him discover about that stuff himself, not for me to trouble him,” he said. “I mean, he’s got plenty of individuals with plenty of input into what he should do and when he should do it and the way he should do it.”
Ron also learned to not take anything he reads about his youngest son to heart — and that lesson got here from Brandon himself, back when he was twiddling with the Mets’ minor-league team in Coney Island.
“Well, I came upon what the grace period with fans is in Latest York,” Brandon told his dad while twiddling with the Brooklyn Cyclones. “It’s in the future.”
The daddy recalled his son telling him, “The primary day I used to be here, they were all my friend. The second day, they were all telling me how worthless I used to be and the Mets wasted their money.”
In 2011, the Mets drafted Brandon out of highschool and the following yr, while he was twiddling with the Cyclones, Ron and his wife, Patti, made their first trip to Latest York.
“Brandon . . . told us of a hotel that was near him. A lot of razor wire across the property over there, bars on windows,” Ron remembered.
Ron and Patti decided to take the train to Coney Island on the 4th of July, right in time for the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest there, which he said was “a nasty idea.”
“We had never, obviously, been on a subway anywhere,” he said. “So we walk out of the subway station and the road is filled with, what appeared to us, like 150,000 people standing in front of us.”
Brandon recalled growing up in Wyoming, where the long winters weren’t ideal for baseball and arranged leagues may very well be hours away. His dad built a 40-by-60-foot insulated barn of their yard with heaters, a batting cage, hitting nets and a pitching machine for him and his older brother, Bryce, 39, who played baseball on the University of Nebraska.
“We spent plenty of time in that barn, and so, it became famous after I got drafted,” Brandon explained.
“A lot of kids on various teams of Brandon and Bryce, all of them used the barn and got out of the cold,” Ron recalled.
Until he was 14, Brandon, who became the highest-drafted MLB player in Wyoming history, played on parent-coached traveling teams, where Ron was one among the coaches. Since his highschool didn’t offer baseball, Brandon joined the local American Legion travel team. Most of their games were within the Colorado area, two hours away, and others were so far as Spokane, WA, a 14-hour drive.
“It was an enormous sacrifice made by our parents to be able to travel. And I had two other siblings … and there’s two parents, they will only go together with two children, so the third one’s gotta find someone to go together with,” said Brandon, whose sister, Kristen, 37, played soccer.
Ron, who was busy during tax season from January to April, said he’s grateful for his wife’s sacrifices.
“I used to be a partner at a CPA firm here on the town, in order that provided all of the things that we would have liked, apart from time,” he said. “Thankfully, my wife was accountable for mostly getting the children in all places they needed to go and she or he did an excellent job.”
Ron, who grew up in La Junta, CO, played football in highschool and wrestled in college before a knee injury ended his profession in freshman yr.
“I do know that it wasn’t his first selection to be working a desk job for 12 hours a day and doing all this stuff so that I might need a greater shot at doing what I desired to do,” Brandon said. “So I actually have appreciated the whole lot that he’s done for me.”
Brandon also credits his parents for his deep faith.
“My parents have all the time supported me on this sport, but at the beginning, they’ve all the time wanted me to be well-rooted in my relationship with God,” he said.
“I tell people, ‘When you just bring your kids to church, eventually it gets through,’ because I used to be the form of kid in the beginning, where I used to be going kicking and screaming.”
Brandon, often called “the happiest man in baseball” for his always-pleasant demeanor, can also be known for staying late after games and giving fans autographs within the parking zone of Citi Field.
“I feel the safety guys sort of wish he would go home sometimes,” Ron said.
“Over and over it’s midnight or later by the point he leaves the sector, and there’ll still be fans waiting on the market, and he’ll stop his automotive and he’ll sign for everyone who’s waiting. After which everybody gets to go home after that.”
