At the top, a reminder: Sports is not life and death. As a close corollary, let’s remember that even baseball — while it seems that way sometime — is definitely not life and death, although it does try to trick you periodically.

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That’s especially true if your team experiences the kind of year the Mets have. And one thing has occurred to me in the past few weeks, as correspondence from readers who happen to be Mets fans have grown more numerous and more frantic.

In a season like this, in real time, you really do go through something akin to the five stages of grief. Nothing has died since things started to go sou

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