We’ve all heard, maybe to the point of exhaustion, the old baseball adage that the major league baseball season is a marathon, not a sprint. The 2025 Mets proved that they were great sprinters and lousy distance runners. If the season had ended on June 12, about 40 percent through the schedule, the Mets, with the best record in MLB, would have had home field advantage throughout the playoffs. And that was despite the huge free agent signing – Ju