Was It Worth It?

The Mets' season is over after three postseason games, so were the 513 hours of regular-season baseball that they played, and we watched, a waste of time?

By Roger Cormier

After six months, the New York Mets were kicked out of contention in a span of 51 hours by the San Diego Padres. A season of 102 wins, all but one secured during the regular season, ended with a dispiriting clunker, a big fat L, after all of those saxophone stings, a sad trombone.

The pathetic conclusion was seemingly inevitable — there were a surprising amount of empty seats at Citi Field for a do-or-die, elimination playoff game. 

So I ask you: if the Mets lose in the first round of the playoffs — and you even know this in advance subconsciously — was it worth watching all of those games that preceded it? Not just watching but analyizing and judging and fretting and sweating.