There is no sugar-coating the fact that the end of the Mets’ season early Monday morning came during an animated dugout conversation between Matt Harvey and Terry Collins.
There is also no getting around the fact that the anti-Collins faction, the ones who wanted to see him fired long before the Mets ever lost the 12-inning, Game 5 of the World Series, will grow ever more in number, ever more vocal in their distaste of the 66-year-old manager.
They would be wrong.
Collins didn’t make a mistake by going against his first instinct and granting Harvey his adamant wish to finish the brilliant work he had started eight innings before.