In Defense of Mr. Met: How Mascot Became Hero of Baseball Season

After another humiliating loss to wrap up May dropped the scuffling New York Mets back to five games below .500, thoughts immediately turned to the club's notorious twin collapses of 2007 and again in 2008, which hastened the demise of a promising mid-aughts run. Over the ensuing decade, Mr. Met has grown more antiquated, an emblem of optimism incongruous with the team's foibles, which were

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