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You can steal Juan Soto from the Yankees and re-sign Pete Alonso and welcome Kodai Senga back at the start of the season and you can still lose 10 of 11 games and feel as though the sky is falling. 

Meet the Mets, the 2025 Mets. 

As panic-stricken Mets fans resort to pulling their hair out, as the lineup drives them batty, as the bullpen falters and the rotation waits for Senga and Sean Manaea and Tylor Megill to return, it would seem to be the perfect time to go back in time to remind the faithful to keep the faith: 

Meet the 1986 Mets, who following a 20-4 start to their championship season had lost five of seven games.