I do not believe in hexes, jinxes and curses.

Yet, I am not at peace with why seasons like the present one maintain stacking up on the Mets; why nice expectations dovetail into giant despair.

If I did believe in hexes, and many others., I would surprise if they are the “Damn Mets.”

That their soul was offered in 1986 to honor then supervisor Davey Johnson’s spring proclamation — “Not only will we win this year, we will dominate.” Were all the baseball miracles used up in two fortune-heavy Game 6s: the three-run ninth and Fifteenth-inning NLCS Game 6 win in Houston that enabled the Mets to keep away from Mike Scott in Game 7, and the Russian novel World Series Game 6 triumph over the Red Sox?