This time of year can be so cruel.
You can be the hero one moment, cover boy for national magazines, toast of the town, suddenly hot free agent.
And then Daniel Murphy can have a grounder go under his glove and, boom, he is a goat, owner of a uniquely bad place in Mets lore.
This time of year can be so cruel.
Citi Field can be full and jovial and under the strong belief that the 111th World Series is about to be tied and a championship just might be a few days away.