Let's go Mets ... fans.
Forget waiting until next year. Suddenly, like a divine intervention, fans of the first-place Mets are waiting for October of this year.
“It’s gonna be 1969 all over again,” says Downtown Ronnie Califano, a Mets fan since 1962. “Get ready for plays like Ron Swoboda’s diving catch out in right field. Remember the black cat that crossed behind the plate and stared bad luck into the Cubs dugout in ’69? Somebody said the other night that the yellow parakeet hanging out in Citi is the new Mets’ good luck sign.