As any baseball fan in New York City will tell you, it’s been tough rooting for the New York Mets. Since the franchise’s inception in 1962, the team has made it to four World Series (winning two of them) and has played for the National League Championship on seven occasions. The rest of the time, well . . . it hasn’t been pretty. The Mets have finished, on average, almost 19 games out of first place in their division or league over the course of the franchise’s history.
The Yankees, by contrast, have played i…