Mets Have It In Their Hands Again

It's just one of those stories that you'll only find in sports. How big a story it was, the collapse of last year's New York Mets, when they blew a huge division lead to the Philadelphia Phillies on the last days of September. The Mets have to go at it again, in a year where they had their chances, their leads and their praise as one of the teams to beat. Now, even though they are right in the middle of the National League playoff race, the story is basically how they will manage to just fall short again? What big late inning lead will they choke away or what play will they mess up on their road to another painful long winter full of ruined dreams and what ifs? Yet they again have it in their own hands. At home, on the last days of good old Shea. 3 games, 3 finals. Do or die. They heard this story before. And they sure are sick of it. But to get rid of that dark history, they have to deliver. Today, tomorrow and on Sunday. In their closing regular season series they face their division rivals, the Florida Marlins. But that shouldn't matter. Just as the results in other stadiums or the matchups shouldn't interest the Mets right now. It's all about themselves. Their heart, their guts and their will to win. And what better way there is to say goodbye to Shea Stadium than give the ballpark another few days of life...