KANSAS CITY, Mo. — From any other player, it might have seemed corny or insincere. But this was David Wright, who had signed with the Mets in 2001, when they were the reigning National League champions, and had waited so long to be one himself. His emotion bubbled over after the Mets clinched a berth in the World Series last week — not in tears, but in boyish glee.
“I think I’ve said it about a million times now, but I’m going to keep saying it: It’s the World Series,” Wright said, smiling widely in the dank clubhouse tunnel at ancient Wrigley Field.