This is a very stupid propostion.

If losing was the same as winning, then there is no reason to keep score:

"We’re crawling up on a month since the Royals tore up the final act of the Mets’ splendid season, which means we probably are inching toward the day when Mets fans can come to what should be the only conclusion about the 2015 season: It was just about as satisfying as a season can possibly be. Except for the ending."

Yeah, well ...  it's all about the happy ending.

  
"In a lot of ways, fans of every team in New York take their cues from Yankees fans, who have been schooled by their team to find anything short of a championship unacceptable. And that simply is not the way it should be."

I can defend the thrill of the journey, and I don't think anything short of a championship is unacceptable.

But you play to win the game. It's the best thing about sports.


"Sometimes, yes: Teams that fall shy of championships fall shy of that which was expected for them, and so the tinge of disappointment should be there. But that’s the exception."

Only one team can win the championship. So 29 out of 30 teams in baseball will fall short of that strict standard. But that still means 29 out of 30 should feel at least a tinge of disappointment, for crying out loud. Professional pride requires it.


"Here are eight of our teams from the past 25 years who didn’t win titles but did (or should have) made their fans every bit as happy as the first team on our list."

A preposterous notion that does not require further dissection.

If the Mets fulfill their potential, then this 2015 season will be seen as the start of something great. If not, it's just the 2007 Rockies or a million other almost teams ... that didn't quite achieve the, err, happy ending.




This sentence ought to make every Mets fan vomit:

"Bill Parcells famously said there’s no medals for trying in pro sports, but the ’15 Mets make a compelling argument that sometimes there ought to be."

Have a ticker tape pardade for the Mets, why don't you? The Yankees, too, because they made the playoffs.


Check out this blurb about the 2001 Yankees:

"6. 2001 Yankees
It wasn’t just the emotion of the time, it was the grittiness of the team. By Game 7 of the World Series the Yankees were running on fumes and muscle memory and little else, and yet it almost was enough: They came as close as is humanly possible to winning a fourth straight title — and covered themselves in glory more completely than many of the teams of that era that went the distance."


For what it's worth? I can't imagine a Yankee fan celebrating the 2001 almost World Series.

It was a memorable season and exciting series. But Yankees lost ... the Diamondbacks were the winners and the Yankees were the losers. It's really that simple.