When a baseball team is “cursed,” who, in fact, is afflicted with that curse?

If we’re asking that question, it must be September, and we must be talking about the New York Mets, who are in serious danger of one of the worst late-season collapses in baseball history. Again.

It wasn’t long ago that this team looked ascendent. Coming off an inspirational playoff run last year and an offseason in which they swiped Juan Soto from the Yankees and brought back postseason hero (and now franchise all-time-home-run leader Pete Alonso) in mid-June, the Mets came roaring out of the gate and had the best record in baseball by-mid June. They could also claim one of the best farm systems in the sport and a highly motivated, mega-rich owner on record as saying not winning a World Series “within

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