The New York Mets, the Major League Baseball team that typically plays second fiddle to the New York Yankees, just beat the Cincinnati Reds, 10-2, clinching the playoffs for the first time since 2006.
Back then, Twitter was tiny — it was just a few months old, and it didn’t even have 1 million users yet. Now, of course, it’s much bigger, with more than 316 million monthly active users.
Today, there’s a whole lot to see on Twitter about my hometown baseball team. “NL East” — the National League division, which the Mets have won — is trending on Twitter.