Readers sound off on the Mets’ season, Liberty champions and a young boy’s abuse

These Mets should marque each New York instrumentality proud

Manhattan: Re “Never-say-die Mets garbage to fto this NLCS extremity astatine Citi Field” (column, Oct. 20): Yankees pinstripes person tally successful my family’s humor since the days of Whitey Ford, Yogi Berra and Mickey Mantle. I retrieve the precocious 1970s title teams and the Core Four successful the 1990s onward. I was astatine the stadium for Aaron Boone’s walk-off location run. My woman and I sat adjacent wherever Derek Jeter’s 3,000th deed (a homer) landed. But these 2024 Mets got my attention.

Maybe it was Francisco Lindor and Brandon Nimmo, the entranceway euphony to person Edwin Diaz oregon thing truthful elemental arsenic Mr. and Mrs. Met showing up astatine our simple schoolhouse connected the Upper East Side to motion autographs (no casual task with those immense hands). These Mets aren’t a motley unit of underdogs, arsenic immoderate suggest. They are a World Series champion-caliber team. After a dilatory start, the Mets were astir apt the champion squad successful the National League since June. Most of all, they’ve enactment the amusive backmost into baseball. The Pete Alonso location runs against the Brewers and the Dodgers; their awe-inspiring antiaircraft treble plays. As we saw Friday astatine Citi Field, they’re not impressed with the Dodgers’ trio of erstwhile MVPs, Shohei Ohtani, Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman. Or the Dodgers’ ace pitcher Jack Flaherty successful Game 5.

I cull the conception that your geographic borough determines who you basal for, oregon the outdated cliché that the Mets are working-class and the Yankees are corporate. Both teams person mammoth payrolls. Both person that comeback combat and grit. I’m inactive a Yankees fan. Yet, aft this season, it’s OK to judge successful some of New York’s MLB teams simultaneously. Adam Silbert

Third go

Bronx: Who says three-peats person to beryllium consecutive? Yankees-Dodgers: 1977, 1978, 2024. Maria Bonsanti

Lucky run

Brooklyn: Since the chaotic paper has been added to the playoffs, I don’t deliberation immoderate squad had an easier way to the World Series than the Yankees. First, they play the Kansas City Royals. If you instrumentality retired their grounds against the pitiful White Sox, they were a .500 team. Then they play the Guardians, who person nary starting pitching and a anemic lineup but for Jose Ramirez. The Dodgers volition enactment them successful their place. Dennis Burge

Big win

Brooklyn: I americium truthful thrilled that the New York Liberty person yet won the WNBA Championship! I’ve been pursuing this squad since its precise start, and watched them get this adjacent respective times and fail. It was an particularly saccharine triumph due to the fact that immoderate of the archetypal squad members and different erstwhile players were successful the assemblage astatine the Barclays Center. Ladies, I congratulate you and I’m truthful gladsome you prevailed. You are inspirational! Ellen Levitt

What a ride

Huntington Station, L.I.: Just watched the Liberty instrumentality the archetypal rubric successful franchise history. Fantastic! What an astonishing feat for these players and a acquisition to New York. They competed hard and present tin bask successful the glow of the newfound attraction for women’s basketball. Breanna Stewart, Sabrina Ionescu, Jonquel Jones, each the Liberty players: you rock! The sheet of women who covered the crippled connected ESPN (shout-out to the web for the extended and fantabulous coverage) was outstanding, too: Andraya Carter, Elle Duncan, Carolyn Peck and LaChina Robinson. These women are highly professional, exhibiting a genuine emotion and cognition of the game. I truthful appreciated their penetration and analysis. Very good enactment each around. Nancy Macri Kennedy

Faltering franchise

Sea Isle City, N.J.: Bye-bye, Brian Daboll. Like Dandy Don utilized to say, “Turn retired the lights, the party’s over.” It’s clip to go. N.Y. Giants request to cleanable house. You fto Saquon Barkley locomotion down the turnpike to Philly, you didn’t motion Justin Pugh and your prima near tackle Andrew Thomas is done for the year. It’s clip that Steve Mara cleans house, oregon by December the stadium volition beryllium bare connected crippled day, and it’s the wide manager and coaches’ fault. Last year, you signed Pugh successful October “straight disconnected the couch,” and helium played each violative play for the remainder of the year. What are you waiting for? You volition beryllium fortunate to triumph different crippled this twelvemonth and fortunate if Danny Dimes makes it to week 18. Bring successful Tommy DeVito. He can’t bash immoderate worse, helium was 3-3 past year! Jim Fusco

Locker country talk

Chicago: As we attack the waning days of the statesmanlike campaign, Donald Trump’s rhetoric has go much bizarre, adjacent by his lowly standards. While successful the important plaything authorities of Pennsylvania this weekend, Trump couldn’t defy dropping the sanction of Arnold Palmer, the renowned golfer and beloved autochthonal lad of the Keystone State. But astatine nary clip did helium notation Arnie’s prowess connected the play people oregon his sportsmanship disconnected of it. Instead, helium made references to the famed golfer’s manhood. Who does that successful mixed institution or, for that matter, adjacent a closed locker room? Over and implicit again, the classless Republican person said Palmer was the envy of each golfer who ever saw him exit a ablution stall. So, what does that accidental astir the Trumpster oregon his evident deficiency of respect for his audience? Bob Ory

Losing it

Paramus, N.J.: Arnold Palmer successful the shower? Really? Can you spell senile? Tom Greff

All apply

Wellfleet, Mass.: Psychotic, mad, crazy, paranoid, lunatic, nuts, maniac, insane, mental, crazed, psycho, deranged and looney are synonyms for the connection “unhinged.” By each means, let’s person 4 much years of that. Mike Rice

Extreme expectations

Little Egg Harbor, N.J.: The Harris-Walz candidacy is the astir far-left successful American history! The American radical person to aftermath up and recognize that this duet volition lone beryllium fulfilling the wishes of their extremist donors, similar George Soros. Donald Trump is surely not a cleanable candidate, but he’s not going to destruct America. The Democrats person been hijacked by radical, leftist socialists whose lone purpose is the demolition of the America we each cognize and love. Wake up, America, earlier it’s excessively late. James J. D’Amico

Appeasement policy

Manhattan: I judge that those who applaud Trump for having had nary warfare successful Ukraine connected his ticker are giving him undeserved credit. Given his seemingly obsequious devotion to Vladimir Putin, it seems evident that the second would person met with nary absorption from the U.S. if helium had chosen to invade Ukraine astatine that time, and his rationalizations for doing truthful would person been readily accepted by his longtime friend. Thus, Putin could person pulled disconnected a comparatively casual penetration and possibly should beryllium regarded arsenic having been decidedly shortsighted for not taking vantage of specified an opportunity! If Trump is backmost successful office, helium volition nary uncertainty question to broker an statement that allows the Russian aggressor to support sizable chunks of Ukrainian territory, thereby rewarding Putin for his murderous actions and further alienating america from our NATO allies. Ronald Reagan would person been appalled. Denise Fortino

Switched sides

Brooklyn: He is simply a motivation disaster, America’s Hitler, a cynical a-hole, a full fraud, helium doesn’t attraction astir regular radical and is reprehensible. These are the words of JD Vance (Trump’s vice statesmanlike choice). The lone happening that changed is that Vance present belongs to the cult. Trump has not changed. Don Adler

Extreme negligence

Manhattan: There are reasons that a 4-year-old weighs 19 pounds and dies (“Harlem struggles to recognize why,” Oct. 20). That incompetent District Attorney Alvin Bragg should’ve brought execution charges based connected depraved indifference alternatively of criminally negligent homicide. Even a first-year instrumentality pupil would cognize that. Al Sharpton and the kid’s “beloved” grandma are much jokes. She’s successful the paper, connected his arm, crying. Where was she successful those 4 years? Now she wants custody? She should beryllium fortunate not to beryllium indicted. The ACS workers should beryllium indicted arsenic well. They are blameworthy of endangering the payment of a minor. The crocodile tears of the grandma are disgusting — and Sharpton abetted it. There volition beryllium nary justness for small Jahmeik. Daniel Jean Lipsman