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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 5193006, member: 289"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5832810/2024/10/09/francisco-lindor-lifts-mets-national-league-championship-series/?source=dailyemail&campaign=601983&userId=5973799[/URL] [I]"And in the middle of it all was [URL='https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/mlb/player/francisco-lindor-fw92vY1VRY72DXFZ/']Francisco Lindor[/URL], once again making the improbable feel inevitable. “Everyone in the building,” president of baseball operations David Stearns said, “knew what was going to happen there.” He paused. “And to do it, is just absurd.”[/I] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5833251/2024/10/10/francisco-lindor-grand-slam-mets-phillies-history/?source=dailyemail&campaign=601983&userId=5973799[/URL] [I]"Every October legend needs a legendary October moment. For [URL='https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/mlb/player/francisco-lindor-fw92vY1VRY72DXFZ/']Francisco Lindor[/URL], this was that moment. It’s amazing to try to comprehend what [URL='https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5832810/2024/10/09/francisco-lindor-lifts-mets-national-league-championship-series/']one swing of the bat[/URL] can do — the stories it can write, the memories it can make, the reputations it can seal. But we saw all of that happen Wednesday night at Citi Field. We saw Lindor send a baseball floating through the Queens sky. And when it came down, nothing would be the same."[/I] Actually, we were going to blow that game - and the series, having to go back to Philly and face Zach Wheeler. We had several opportunities to jump out to a lead and also an opportunity to extend it but couldn't get the big hit. Then we started to blow it in the 8th. But Lindor hit a grand slam and so we didn't blow it. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5832830/2024/10/10/mets-nlds-brandon-nimmo-core/?source=dailyemail&campaign=601983&userId=5973799[/URL] [I]"Because think back to a few months ago. For so long, the narrative around the Mets’ longtime nucleus told a story of underachieving losers. It persisted with such intensity in late May that Mets president of baseball operations David Stearns fielded several questions during a news conference over whether the core was any good at all, worth building in, worth believing in. Consider the questions answered, the narrative flipped on its head."[/I] And remember that this was supposed to be a throw-away season, building for 2025 or 2026. The Met's brass denied that but nobody believed them. [/QUOTE]

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