New York Mets Mike Vaccaro Do something, Steve Cohen — or there is something far worse coming for the Mets By Mike Vaccaro Published June 25, 2026, 4:49 p.m. ET Steve Cohen Robert Sabo for the NY Post The through line of institutional memory for that segment of Baseball New York who cares for the Mets is a consistent one: A 64-year loop of head scratches and face palms and shoulder shrugs intermittently interrupted by moments of rapture every bit as surprising as they are fleeting.
This is really not even up for debate. That’s simply the way it is. It’s the way it always has been.
Sometimes, that can be misinterpreted as acceptance. But it never is. There is mythology now that Mets fans got a kick out of every one of the 737 games the team lost in their first seven years of existence, but that fable doesn’t hold up with what life as a Mets fan was really like. It was hard. It was frustrating. It wasn’t nearly as much fun as it’s been portrayed.
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