Keidel: Meet The Mets, Meet The Mess

By Jason Keidel
To the world west of the Hudson River, who don’t see New York City as the vortex of the sports universe, we have two baseball clubs that have lived on opposite sides of the tracks.
The Yankees you know. Their history is basically baseball history, their legends a roll call of Cooperstown, the stuff of fame, fortune and fable. The Mets, created to somehow replace both the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants, have not been so fortunate.
But as the residue of the Joe Torre dy