The Dodgers crushed the Mets in the NLCS.

Outscored the Mets 46-26. 

Won four games to two.

The Mets (and Lupica, by extension) take a silly amount of pride in winning a Game Five bullpen game so the Dodgers couldn't celebrate at Citi Field.

This particular phenomenon might be the silliest thing in the ultra silly world of professional sports.

"It's our house" and such.

Who cares where you lose or even how you lose?

Even though Lupica is bizarrely giving the Mets A LOT of credit for NOT making the World Series, it's simply asinine to act like the Mets played better in the NLCS than the Yankees did in the World Series.

The Yankees evenly matched the Dodgers and the games were close.

No, it doesn't actually matter. "Almost winning" is the same thing as losing.

But if you're going to evaluate the quality of the performances, and you conclude that the Mets outplayed the Yankees, then you're just being ignorant.

 

I'm also not sure why anyone would bother. 

Do the Mets get a parade down the Canyon of Heroes for winning two games in a seven-game series?

Knock yourselves out.

Get Mookie and Buck and Dwight and Darryl on Opening Day to raise the banner. Lupica could go through his rolodex and relive the good ol' days.

 

For what it's worth? At no moment after losing Game Two did I think the Yankees could come back and win the World Series.

If Judge had caught the easy fly ball and if Cole had covered first base, the Dodgers had their best pitchers set up for Games Six and Seven. Winning is always preferable to losing, but the ending was pretty much already written before the fifth inning of Game Five.

So when I say the games in the World Series were close, I'm simply stating a fact. I'm only comparing their respective efforts to the Mets because Lupica is petty enough to do that.

It's not a useful way to evaluate anything.

I mean, the Padres took a 2-1 lead against the Dodgers in the ALDS, didn't they?

So in Lupica Land, the Padres must be the World Champions right now.