Mets' soft upcoming schedule a chance for revival to avoid being deadline sellers

It really shouldn't be this way. A baseball team shouldn't dawdle for two-plus months and still have an opportunity to rescue itself so dramatically. Generally speaking, if you play eight games under .500 across the first 64 games of a schedule, that's a fair indicator of where you are, where you'll be, what your season is going to look like. And that may well be the case with the 2024 Mets. But there is also a genuine sense that Tuesday night, when the Mets welcome the Marlins to Citi Field for the first of a three-game series, what'll also be in play is Opening Day 2.0. Somehow, despite all the ninth-inning nightmares, all the extended offensive brownouts, all the nights when one of the starters