Here are the back covers of today’s New York Post and New York Daily News, highlighting Monday’s 3-1 Opening Day victory over the Washington Nationals.
George Steinbrenner would have raised hell and fired half of his staff if he were alive to see the Mets stealing the Opening Day back pages.
Winning the back pages is the first step to taking back New York from the Yankees. Well let me correct that, winning is actually the first step.
All offseason I’ve been saying it was critical for the Mets to make a strong statement and take two out of three from the Nationals in the season opening series.
Now I’m thinking we might be in a good position to possibly sweep the Nats, but let me not get too far ahead of myself.
“We didn’t play well against the Nationals last year,” general manager Sandy Alderson said before the game. “We had a very poor record. And we need to go about changing that. You don’t do it other than performing and succeeding on the field.”
