Miles and Miles of Pregame Smiles.

"Once Memorial Day passes, it's game on."

The first two months of the season count, too.


"The Mets played their 50th game of the season last night, against the Diamondbacks in a battle of first-place clubs, setting up a summer of fun at Shea, a ballpark that has known such dark days since 1986."

Oh, Dark Days!

Doesn't anybody even remember the 2000 World Series? It was only five seasons ago. The Mets played in the 2000 World Series.

The Mets have also been in the playoffs two other times since 2000. They won 100 games in 1988. They won 90+ four other times and 88 games two other times.

Yes, the Art Howe era was exceedingly disappointing and so was the Dallas Green era. But a lot of baseball teams would take the Dark Days of the Mets. A lot of teams would take the Mets' payroll, too.

Maybe the Mets suffer because of the unending comparison to the Yankees ...


"Walk into the clubhouse and there is no sense of tightness like over in The Bronx, where pregame smiles are hard to find. Reyes smiles more in one night than the Yankees do all week ... "

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Kevin Kernan should move out of his mom's basement and move into the Mets' clubhouse. If the Mets let him bring his cats.


"The Yankees are Wall Street. The Mets are Soho."

The millionaires on the Mets absolutely live in Soho and take the subway to work. Jose Reyes has to jump the turnstiles since he can't even afford a Metrocard. The Mets live in a rent-controlled walk-up and they don't even have clothes dryers, which is why you can often see their Mets uniforms hanging on clotheslines between tenement buildings.

Did you ever read that book by Upton Sinclair? That's kind of what it's like for the Mets players.
Do you remember that time the at Shea when the fire exits were blocked and all the young seamstresses dove to their deaths?

Dark Days, indeed.