NL East: The other orange-and-blue team

New York Mets

They finally did it. A team donning orange and blue—the very colors the city of New York bleeds—has won a championship, ending a decades-long drought. They overcame incompetent ownership, the overly-bright lights and microscope always on them, and a specter that the mutagenic media had incubated to kaiju-sized proportions to earn a parade down the Canyon of Heroes, the stretch of Broadway that has fêted military heroes, astronauts, foreign dignitaries, and championship sports teams.

Yes, the Knicks have won the NBA championship for the first time in 53 years. What was going on in 1973? Oh, not much—just America at war, conflict in the Middle East, oil supply mayhem, rising inflation, wide-leg denim in vogue, booming...

Almost!

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