The Mets and their legion of fans hate to hear it, and they’ve been largely spared from hearing it since the ‘90s, but now it rings true again.
The Atlanta Braves did everything right. Now they’re heading to the World Series again.
Sure, the Mets have been to the World Series twice since the Braves’ last appearance in 1999, and the Braves look wholly overmatched against baseball’s conquistadors from Houston, but we said the same thing about the 2019 Nationals. The fact of the matter is that the Braves earned this trip to the Fall Classic through the sheer power of good baseball, a wildly foreign concept to their division rivals in Queens.