Maybe you have to be of a certain age to understand why that moment resonates so. Maybe you have to remember what it was like in New York City on the evening of Tuesday, May 25, 1993, what the Knicks meant to the city at that moment, how Madison Square Garden really did feel like the center of the sporting cosmos.
The Mets lost that night to the Phillies, falling to 14-29 in a season in which they would lose 103 games.