The book became a hit, and Mets owner Joan Payson took a liking to young Jimmy, and her brother, Jock Whitney, owned the old Herald Tribune newspaper. Kevin is Jimmy’s son, and he borrowed that line from his old man - whose career, in many ways, was launched by them. “They loved them.” Kevin Breslin (right), with Brad Wyman at Citi Field, is trying to bring his father Jimmy’s book, “Can’t Anybody Here Play This Game?” to TV screens as a limited series. “The people in New York didn’t follow the Mets,” Kevin Breslin says. It is the team for every guy who has to get out of bed in the morning and go to work for short money on a job he does not like.”
This is a team for the cab driver who gets held up and the guy who loses out on a promotion because he didn’t maneuver himself to lunch with the boss enough. “You see, the Mets are losers, just like nearly everybody else in life. My favorite passage has always been this: We know this because the peerless Jimmy Breslin left behind as one of his lasting treasures the book “Can’t Anybody Here Play This Game?” a memoir of those ’62 Mets and that orchestra of ineptitude, masterfully conducted by Casey Stengel. And as it pertains to the Mets - a team whose fan base has mostly made a cottage industry in recent decades waiting for skies to fall and other shoes to drop - it almost feels like science fiction. It was certainly the last time - and maybe the only time - a team wasn’t just forgiven for being historically terrible, but celebrated for it. This is why it’s important to hold on to the memory of the 1962 Mets, and to the early years of struggle for that franchise. It feels like more than ever sports dovetails with Pat Riley’s old credo: “There’s winning, and there’s misery.” And the problem with that equation is that there’s always a lot more misery than winning. Knicks enter NBA summer with a unique advantage
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