The point is, the Miracle Mets' run in 1969 was, is and always will be one of a kind. "The 1969 season will never go away.

The 1969 Mets leave the field after a pre-game ceremony to honor them before a baseball game against the Atlanta Braves Saturday, June 29, 2019, in New York. Credit: Kathleen Malone-Van Dyke ...

The 1969 Mets leave the field after a pre-game ceremony to honor them before a baseball game against the Atlanta Braves on Saturday. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II) ...

A look at the championship team captured in the 1969 Topps Baseball set. By Jay Schreiber Tom Seaver won the rookie of the year award in 1967, finishing 16-13 for a Mets team that was still ...

As a point of conversation they were laugh-inducing. As a baseball team they were a laughingstock. The 1969 season started as usual, with the Mets digging themselves a nine-game hole by the end of May ...

Gleeful Mets rush pitcher Jerry Koosman on the mound at Shea Stadium on Oct. 16, 1969. Photo from Major League Baseball ...

The Mets were the worst team in baseball since their birth in 1961 until 1969. In a 10-team National League, they finished no better than 9th. They had five seasons with 100 or more losses.

Or as Mets pitcher Matt Harvey, even younger, put it, “I wasn't even a thought in 1969.” Still, Alderson wouldn't dismiss the idea of historical context entirely when it came to the two young ...

Now Kranepool is 74 and in need of a kidney transplant, although he remains intent on being part of the 1969 reunion the Mets will stage at Citi Field in June. “It’s frustrating,” he said.

Suddenly, these Nats, like my ’69 Mets, seemed to be a team of destiny. Whenever Ellen wanted to watch the latest offering on Netflix together, I was preoccupied with baseball on MASN.

If you thought it took a miracle for the 1969 Mets to become world champions, imagine what it will take for the 2019 Mets just to achieve mediocrity. On Saturday the Mets commemorated the 50th ...