It's not dark yet

The Mets took a bad loss last night in St. Louis, putting them on the brink of elimination with Game 6 to be played tonight. As a Met fan who lived through years of futility bookending two years of postseason hijinks in 1999 and 2000, this is a familiar feeling. They (although a completely different team) won games 4 and 5 against the Braves in the NLCS in 1999, and had dramatic series wins against the Diamondbacks in 1999 and the Giants in 2000. But despite those heroics, they haven't gotten over the hump of facign eliminiation and then winning the series since another Game 6, the Game 6, in the World Series in 1986.

I think Met fans everywhere are channeling that team, that team that avoided Mike Scott in a potential Game 7 against the Astros, that team that had the swagger. The team that came back from down two, two outs on an October night. Carter, Hernandez, Wilson, Strawberry, Gooden, Orosco. Heroes and tragic heroes. Bad guys and good guys. It's Game 6. The Mets have won two pretty big Game 6's before. Right now, they just need one more.