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Photo This opening day had a Rip Van Winkle feel to it, as if we’d fallen off to sleep in early November and awakened a day or two later.
For at least one day, the Mets had the most desired continuity of all with 2015, in the form of an easy celebration of a 7-2 win over the Phillies.
For a lifelong Mets fan, accustomed to crawling into the fetal position one time too many with this franchise, t are worrying signs to be found.
The Mets’ pitching offers a deep vein of diamonds.
Last year, Steven Matz, another of the Mets’ young pitching prodigies, missed many weeks with a tear of his lat.
They faced a Phillies team that, within easy memory, caused the Mets much pain, overtaking them twice, in 2007 and 2008, in the final weeks of the season.
Jimmy Rollins and Chase Utley are gone, although Utley appeared wraithlike last October and broke the leg of a Mets shortstop.
Conforto arrived in the majors on an express elevator last season, and the intrigue goes to whether he once again can force the Mets to alter their plans.