In the end, Sandy Alderson, the proud Marine, had tears in his eyes and regret in his baseball heart over how this season has gone for his beleaguered Mets.
But he is preparing for a much bigger fight now than the NL East: His second bout with cancer.
“None of us write his or her script,’’ Alderson said Tuesday at Citi Field, where he announced he is stepping away from the 31-45 Mets as general manager and likely will not return. “You deal with circumstances as they arise. This is a busy world and we have to deal with life as it presents itself and I will deal with it.