Mike Vaccaro
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It’s funny, there are some teams in this town that are decidedly over-celebrated when it comes to anniversaries. The ’86 Mets come to mind. There is little question that team was a seminal team, by themselves representing all the energy and excess of the ’80s.
But it does seem that their anniversaries happen every few minutes, and not just every five years. This year’s 40th was fairly muted — not helped, for sure, by the fact that the 2026 Mets were every bit as joyless as the ’86 team was joyful.
The ’70s-era Knicks have always gotten the love — especially in those years before the drought was snapped.
The Yankees are a whole different stripe of cat, mostly because with the exception of years ending in “4” and “5,” they have won championships in every other year ending between 0 and 9 (go ahead, look it up!), so just about every year is some kind of milestone year.
