Not difficult to find in the archives.

Lupica article from almost precisely one year ago.

Basically, the Mets are going to win the World Series in 2014:

"The Mets manager talks about the 2013 Red Sox, a team that will be referenced this season and for a lot of seasons by other teams that think they can come from hard times and shock the world.


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Then Collins, a good man and a good manager who has never lost his team through all the bad luck and bad news he has seen off Roosevelt Ave., is talking about how he doesn’t just think about the loss of Harvey when he looks back at the 2013 season, he thinks about the last 100 games his team played, when somehow he and the Mets figured out a way to play .500 ball.


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He talks about Curtis Granderson, how he doesn’t expect Granderson to hit 40 home runs at Citi Field the way he did at the new Yankee Stadium, where balls fly out of the place like driving-range golf balls. Instead he talks about how Granderson provides protection for 'Number 5,' meaning David Wright, and how if pitchers pitch around Wright, they are going to get hit hard by Curtis Granderson."

Number 5 means David Wright, by the way.

In case you weren't sure who wore the uniform number 5 on the Mets.

In case you assumed Collins was referring to Joe Dimaggio or maybe George Brett.


"He talks about how 'it’s still in there' with a player like Chris Young, and how it’s his job now to get it out; and about how important the young shortstop, Ruben Tejada, is to everything. Mostly he talks about how strong he feels his starting rotation will be, even without Harvey, a rotation that could include more kids like Noah Syndergaard and Rafael Montero before the baseball summer is over at Citi Field.

On a Florida morning full of sunlight and sky, Collins really talks blue sky for the Mets, and not in some season down the road. So eventually he is asked a question about what his message is going to be to his team before they all break camp this time, where he expects his team to be on the first of September when big games are played in the National League.

'We’re gonna be in the hunt is where we’re gonna be,' Collins says. 'Can I tell you where we’re gonna be? I can’t. But I am telling you we’re going to be in the hunt.'

Then he talks about the 2013 Red Sox, a team that will be referenced this season and for a lot of seasons by other teams that think they can come from hard times and shock the world.

'll those guys the Red Sox got last season,' Collins says, 'who thought they were going to play that good? As far as I’m concerned, we’re in exactly the same boat.' "

Now, Terry Collins is the manager of the Mets and he can be as optimistic as he wants to be ... and this may have occurred after his GM kind of put him on the spot by predicting 90 wins.

But it's still big talk for a team that won 79 games and Lupica/the Daily News don't have to be the man's cheerleader.

It's all hackneyed garbage from a hack. The Daily News isn't a newspaper, it's the PR Department for the Mets.


If you want to really hear how ludicrous these Daily News articles are, switch the word "Yankees" for "Mets," switch the word "Girardi" for "Collins," switch the word "Beltran" for "Granderson."

It sounds ridiculous and unprofessional because it is.


Gee, "when is the last time we said the Mets were really going to be better than the Yankees." Be honest. You say that every year. The reason you always say that is because you're fanboys.