The Mets' elimination from playoff contention on Wednesday and the combined 1-5 start for the Jets and Giants allows us semi-officially to put a bow on the 2010s in New York-area postseason sports qualification.
You know without researching it that it was bad, but crunching the numbers for the past century reveals just how bad a decade it has been.
We already are in the middle of the longest metropolitan-area pro championship drought among the four major team sports since 1905-21, with the Yankees likely the last hope until June of 2020 � at least. But the struggle goes beyond that to merely reaching the playoffs.
