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Here’s the exact moment it all went wrong for Mets franchise

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Dwight Gooden pitches in the 1986 All-Star Game.

I don’t believe that most Mets fans believe they are cursed. I don’t believe that most Mets fans believe they have a pox on their houses, that somewhere in the mystical universe there are goblins and gremlins forever plotting to make the act of watching a baseball season — an unfiltered pleasure for many — so difficult for them.

I do believe Mets fans consider themselves grossly unlucky, and that part of the DNA of following the Mets is to be constantly waiting for the other shoe to drop.