Walk Toward The Light: Your 2009 New York Mets

Like 2008's Nail in the Coffin series, 2009's Walk Toward The Light aims to memorialize the eliminated teams that are gone and will likely be forgotten.New York MetsCurrent record: 63-82 Season highlight Yes, the American taxpayers are indirectly paying for its name, it has a weird overhang in right field and it debuted during one of the most disappointing seasons in franchise history. Still, the opening of sparkling new Citi Field and its accompanying Shake Shake was undoubtedly high water mark for the team and its fans in 2009. No, not everything may be perfect, but it's six months in and we're still waiting for someone to say they preferred Shea Stadium. Season lowlight The Mets had more than their fair share of debacles in the front office, in the trainer's room and a lot of other off-field locations, but nothing summed the collective underachievement quite like tasting defeat on a game-ending triple play — turned by a middling member of the rival Ph...