Long a Glass Half Empty, Citi Field Brims With Confidence

Photo Reliever Jeurys Familia as the Mets got the final out of a 2-0 win against the Phillies on Monday. Credit Chang W. Lee/The New York Times The Mets announced in the ninth inning Monday that the crowd at their home opener — 43,947 — had set a regular-season record for Citi Field. It sounded like a joke because the ballpark, now in its seventh season, has never hosted a postseason game. It was an All-Star Game, two years ago, that holds the record.

The way the Mets are talking, they might be printing tickets soon for the 2015 playoffs. They are not as brazen as Bryce Harper, the young Washington Nationals slugger, who said this spring that when the team signed pitcher Max Scherzer, his…