Mets superfans flock to Citi Field to rally team from NLCS deficit: This is everything

One sentiment prevailed as Mets fans flocked to Citi Field Thursday to watch the Amazins’ try to even up the National League Championship Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers: “This is everything.”Crisp air and a cool breeze underscored the electric sensation of October baseball in Queens as the team tried to punch its ticket to the World Series.Fans engulfed the statue of iconic Mets pitcher Tom Seaver ahead of the gates opening — chanting, “Let’s Go Mets!” — flush with both hope and anxiety for the game that would unfurl in the coming hours.One such fan was Cyndi Stanimirov, 37, who was walking into Citi Field with a co-worker and her brother.Stanimirov is the director of operations at Brooklyn’s Red Hook Lobster Pound and said she ditched work today to be at the game.“My restaurant might be on fire and I have no idea,” the diehard Mets fan said.“But I don’t care and I’m only giving a s–t about this.“It is wild to be here — ’86 was the last time we won.

I’m born in ’87.We’ve never experienced it in our lifetime.

This is everything.We want to be here.

We want to win,” she implored.“This city, this country, is dying for one of these.”Stanimirov’s connection to the Mets is generational, saying the team means “everything” to her family.

Her mother worked the concession stands at Shea Stadium in the ’80s and ’90s.She brought her mother to Citi Field for the Philadelphia Phillies game last week and said of a potential World Series berth, “I will 100% figure out how to manage my money and bring her again.”Her coworker Rob Henriquez, 37, is working on his own generation of Mets fans.“I’m a diehard.

I bleed orange and blue,” he told The Post.“I’m such a diehard I named my daughter Shea after Shea Stadium and the place where I had some of the greatest memories of my life.”Henriquez said he became a Mets fan soon after moving to New York in 1994 after his uncle won nosebleed tickets from a radi...