Mets desperately need to find way to give Citi Field one more magical moment
What Bill Parcells said 35 years ago still applies: There’s no medals for trying in professional sports.There are no consolation prizes.“Show me a good loser,” George Steinbrenner was fond of saying, “and I’ll show you a loser.”Yep.
All of that is fair.All of that is fine.
And by now, unless you possess the rosiest rose-colored glasses in existence, you’ve probably already raced through baseball’s version of the five stages of grief, all the way from denial to acceptance.The Dodgers are that good, and they’ve played at their best for most of this National League Championship Series.The Mets aren’t as good and needed to be at their finest and their sharpest to keep the Dodgers in their sights, and they haven’t been close.
Crazy things happen in sports.This would be certifiable.So this has to be the hope now: that the Mets can give you one final spasm of summer in the sunshine late Friday afternoon.
That they can ward off the inevitable and keep this splendid ride going another two days.It’s going to take something approaching an Act of God to beat the Dodgers three straight after the thrashing they received in this one, 10-2.Three in a row, down 3-1? Order up a miracle.But one in a row?The Mets can win one in a row.
It’s baseball.The White Sox beat the Guardians five times this year.
They beat the Yankees once.They only won 35 other games all year, but they managed to take six off the two best teams in their league.
Of course, the Mets can beat the Dodgers on Friday afternoon, no matter how vast the chasm between them has looked the last two nights.And that would be right.That would be appropriate.
The fans who will stuff Citi Field for a third straight game and for the fifth time in the last eight days deserve that much.So do the Mets, who’ve reminded everyone just what an acoustic joy their home ballpark can be in October, who ought to do whatever they can to make sure this is a perennial event and not an outlier, as it’s too ...