2 days Ago By Joel Sherman
You tell yourself over and over again, and it just doesn’t matter. You know how long the baseball season is. How many twists and turns there will be that make most definitive statements today look like blather tomorrow.
Yet we are seduced into the statements anyway, as if no other baseball season has ever been played. If you want yet more corroboration of this, let me take you way back in baseball history ..
. to June 11. I waded through the teletype and black-and-white photos to recall the Mets had returned from winning the second of two games in London in stirring fashion and were trying to build upon those good vibes.
Instead, they lost, 4-2, to the Marlins., fell to 28-37, and that triggered yet the latest spasm that this team was just not worth caring about, and David Stearns was a small-market executive without feel, and it was time to start shipping players out. The Yankees that day crushed the Royals, 10-1.
They moved their MLB-best record to 48-21 and furthered comparisons to the 1998 Yankees. Today, the Mets are the toast of New York , and the Yankees just toast. “It is why it is a cliche, but you do try to stay on an even keel because you understand over the long season just how many ups and downs there are going to be,” Francisco Lindor said.
“It [the roller coaster] is kind of the fun part,” Gerrit Cole said, noting, “We undulate all year.” For those not in contact with a dictionary, that means going up and down. And after a majority of a season in w.
