'79 or '93: <i>¿Cuál es Mas Mal?</i>

Welcome to Flashback Friday: I Saw The Decade End, a milestone-anniversary salute to the New York Mets of 1969, 1979, 1989 and 1999. Each week, we immerse ourselves in or at least touch upon something that transpired within the Metsian realm 40, 30, 20 or 10 years ago. Amazin' or not, here it comes. Let others, for now, stew over what would be the worst World Series outcome possible. A Phillie repeat? A Yankee return? One is a kick in the head. The other is a kick in the groin. The key word here is kick; the key result is pain. Don't sweat it. Perspire, instead, over this baseball conundrum: Which was the worst Mets season ever: 1979 or 1993? Why ask? Besides, "Why not?" Well, as part of this year's salute to the way Met decades have ended, I've intermittently alighted on 1979, inevitably pointing out its seemingly limitless depths of despair. The bottom line with '79 is always that it represented the bottom of the barrel. Yet I know it shares ...