Jason Szenes / New York Post
You know why last October was so much fun if you’re a Mets fan? Because it fell straight out of the sky. In May, Citi Field was well on the way to being a ghost town. By October it was the happiest place in all of baseball.
There were a lot of disillusioned fans in Milwaukee and Philadelphia, genuinely wounded by the tire tracks the Mets left on their Brewers and Phillies, who took a measure of solace in laughing about the absurdity of the Mets being $300 million underdogs.
That doesn’t change one problem with that:
The Mets were underdogs.