Pardon the Disorientation, but the Mets Are on the Verge of the World Series - The New York Times
"The cognitive dissonance is considerable. Three months ago, two lifelong Mets fans — my son, Nick, and I — sat high in the Citi Field stands. On that languid summer evening, we watched a mercy killing, as the Dodgers’ Clayton Kershaw mowed down the hitless wonders known as the Metropolitans, 3-0.…"
…if fortunes were reversed, and the Cubs were leading the series 3-0, the Chicago and New York newspapers could just trade stories and it’d all work.
Also the Mets happen to be the only other team I’ve ever thought of—this in the early 1960’s—as “my team.” I’m just an underdog kind of guy.
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