Lupica makes it too easy.

Mike Lupica plus political commentary.

Two great things that go great together.

Like that Reese's peanut butter cup commercial ... except you substitute rancid sushi for a chocolate bar:

"It is a good thing that sports doesn’t work the way politics does. If it did, the Carolina Panthers would have flown straight back to Charlotte after the Broncos threw them down the stairs in the Super Bowl and thrown themselves a victory parade."

Nah. That would be silly. That would be the Mets, of course:

"You know the moment I’ll remember most in New York sports, before the last night of the baseball season went wrong?

I’ll remember what it felt like and sounded like at Citi Field when the Mets were still ahead in Game 5, and they were three outs away from going back to Kansas City.

I’ll remember what it felt like and sounded like when Matt Harvey came out of the dugout to pitch the top of the 9th, because I would have done the same thing Terry Collins did that night, and send him the hell out there.

Harvey walked the leadoff guy, of course, and should have been gone right there.

Before long Duda was throwing wide and Hosmer was on his way home, and you know what happened later.

The other team was just better.

Not a lot better.

Just enough.

This was the time in baseball New York when Citi Field finally sounded the way old Shea did across the parking lot.

It would have been great to win it all, of course it would, are you kidding?

But how could you ever walk away feeling like losers after a run like that?"

Probably because the other team scored more runs. Not that I'm a sabermetrician or anything, but isn't that how it works?