2007 Mets deliver advice to spiraling Amazin’s as they hope to avoid same infamous fate
NY Post
It is nearly unfathomable what the Mets — baseball’s best team through June 12 before posting a record only better than the Rockies and Twins since — are going through during a downturn that has turned into a collapse.
It is more fathomable, though, to the 2007 Mets.
The numbers now reside in franchise infamy: up seven games with 17 to go, the 2007 Mets lost five straight and then six of their final seven to allow the Phillies to steal the NL East crown in one of the most notorious meltdowns in the sport’s history.
“I’m way, way past that,” 2007 manager Willie Randolph said. “That’s so far in the rearview mirror.”
But the nightmare may be recurring for the franchise. The Mets entered play Saturday just a half-game clear of the Giants for the final wild-card spot — a lead that was five games as recently as Sept. 2 — and in a seven-game spiral in which already poor play has accelerated during a meltdown that may be stunning but is not unprecedented.
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