High expectations and flowery optimism are not new in Queens. Famously absent from the franchise’s first run to a championship, they’ve been hanging around these parts just about every spring in the half-century since. Most any March, the Mets’ spring clubhouse plays host to national columnists pushing nebulous nouns like hype and buzz to further the idea that this time, finally, will be different.
“The expectation is to win, and it will be the same one next year,” shortstop Francisco Lindor said. “That’s what we’ve all come here to do.”
And so for these Mets, these 2022 Mets with new faces in the clubhouse, on the dugout’s top step and in the front office, with a newish way of doing things over the past 16 months, what would be novel is not creating the aura of anticipation that has pervaded Port St. Lucie these last few weeks. What would be novel, what would distinguish these Mets as New Mets, would be paying off those expectations in full.
The question is the same: Why will this time, finally, be different?
(Photo of Pete Alonso and Francisco Lindor: Peter Joneleit / Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
This news is republished from another source. You can check the original article here