CHICAGO — You want to talk about a tough room? It wasn’t just Wrigley Field that was lined up against the Mets these past five days, wasn’t just the state of Illinois, or a fat cluster of Midwestern states. You’ve heard of America’s Team? For the last week, the Cubs were America’s team.
The Mets?
They were Apollo Creed, Clubber Lang, Ivan Drago. They were Cobra Kai. They were the Tattaglias and the Barzinis. They were what stood in the way of one of the great baseball stories ever told. It was nothing personal. The Mets are likeable enough.