What the Mets are trending toward is a landing spot in one of our fair town’s most ignominious lists.
It’s one thing to be a bad team; that happens. New York’s football, basketball and hockey communities have known bad. The Mets themselves have known bad. Bad is bad enough.were expected to be a very good baseball team this year
That was the story of the 1992-93 Rangers. A year earlier they’d taken the town by storm thanks in large part to the arrival of Mark Messier. The Rangers became the hottest ticket in town in 1991-92. Messier was instantly iconic, the team won the Presidents’ Trophy, and though they were shocked in the playoffs by the defending champion Penguins, they were set up for glory.
Of course, that’s not what the town remembers. It remembers what happened next, when coach Mike Keenan blew into town, when the Rangers resumed their dominance and repaired their reputation and took the city on a glorious ride through 1993-94. That’s helped make 1992-93 less of a stone in Rangers’ fans shoes. But it was no fun while it was happening.
Richard Todd threw four interceptions. The Jets lost, 17-14. They lost the next week, too, and the next. They started 0-5. They went to 2-6, and 3-9. In the last home game of the year, a grisly Saturday at Shea, they lost to the 0-14 Saints. Jets fans donned paper bags over their heads that day. They finished the season 4-12.
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