Imagine if the famous Saul Steinberg New Yorker cover — “View of the World from Ninth Avenue” – were cast instead from Roosevelt Avenue, in Flushing. The Mets would gaze to the West and see two looming figures towering over the playoff landscape. Terry Collins does not even have to use their names.
“We’d like to open up here,” said Collins, the Mets’ manager, at Citi Field on Tuesday. “It beats facing those two animals out in the shadows. That’s not very much fun.”
Those beasts are named Clayton Kershaw and Zack Greinke, and they play at Dodger Stadium, where postseason games sometimes start in the 5 p.