KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Pitching has been at the center of it all, always. For this team, for this franchise, its greatest days have come directly from the brilliance on the mound.
This is the franchise of Tom Seaver and Dwight Gooden, arms that brought championships to Flushing. And now that the Mets again stand on the brink of greatness, their fate is tied to their arms.
"For all of us, we're kind of sitting around the locker room all talking to each other, and I don't think anything has really set in for us yet," Matt Harvey said Monday on the eve of his Game 1 start against the Royals in the World Series.